Environmental Management

Indigenous soil and water conservation practices are rarely acknowledged in the design of conventional development projects. Instead, the history o...

Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth explores how groundwater, often invisibly, improves peoples lives and livelihoods. Thi...

Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is wid...

In recent years the concept of the resource nexus has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful n...

Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 17001830 offers a detailed study of elite womens relationships with landed property, specifically as th...

It is an unfortunate truth that our oceans offer valuable resources that are too often used unsustainably. Time and again this is due to the failur...

Who has rights to forests and forest resources? In recent years governments in the South have transferred at least 200 million hectares of forests ...

The fisheries sector is in crisis. Inappropriate subsidies to the fishing industry are a key factor responsible for worldwide fisheries depletion, ...

Drought is one of the likely consequences of climate change in many regions of the world. Together with an increased demand for water resources to ...

Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebu...

Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating disc...

This book contains the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Energy Engineering and Environmental Engineering (ICEEEE 2024), which wa...

The book focuses broadly on the preliminaries of the canal irrigation systems in India with a focus on their operation, maintenance, and management...

The tools of environmental economics guide policymakers as they weigh development against nature, present against future, and certain benefits agai...

This new edition provides a practical view of pollution and its impact on the natural environment. Driven by the hope of a sustainable future, it s...

This new edition provides a practical view of pollution and its impact on the natural environment. Driven by the hope of a sustainable future, it s...

This book articulates the traditional Japanese concept of conservation, called Satoyama, for effective management of natures goods and services at ...

Artists and the Practice of Agriculture maps out examples of artistic practices that engage with the aesthetics and politics of gathering food, gro...

This book argues that river basins represent a particular structural setting in international relations with the potential for generating a dynamic...

This volume set provides critical strategies for sustainable environmental management and biodiversity conservation in sub-Saharan Africa. They add...

This book focuses on the most recent developments in bioremediation techniques, exploring how microorganisms can break down different pollutants an...

This book endeavors to critically assess and analyze the latent energy potential inherent within waste materials, thereby reframing the conventiona...

This title was first published in 2003: Despite their growing political significance, the linkages between local resource management and the global...

The evidence for human-induced climate change is now overwhelming, the brunt of its impacts is already being felt by poor people, and the case for ...

This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water. It outlines how stakehol...

Many mushrooms - or the 'fruits of fungi' - are extremely valuable, wild-gathered products which are utilised for both their medicinal properties a...

Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes mel...

Seasonality is a severe constraint to sustainable rural livelihoods and a driver of poverty and hunger, particularly in the tropics. Many poor peop...

Originally published in 1972, Regulation of the Natural Gas Producing Industry combines several papers prepared for a seminar in Washington D.C in ...

This volume explores the contents, forms, and actors that characterize current opposition to the corporate neoliberal agri-food regime. Designed to...

The vast majority of the worlds population lives on or near the coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped resource that ca...

The sustainability discourse and policy paradigm have failed to deliver. In particular, they have failed to avert the dangerously disruptive climat...

This book reviews the Green Revolution, starting with its inception and development from the 1940s to the 1970s, and leading to what is commonly re...