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The book is divided into four sections: The first section focuses on how certain environmental problems can only be solved through active government efforts to implement policies that effectively take science and politics into account. This section introduces readers to foundational concepts, including the steps in the US federal environmental policy-making process, and offers an action-oriented analysis of how environmental policy gets implemented and how practitioners can use comparative analysis of public policy in environmental problem-solving. It concludes with questions about the possibility of a unified theory of environmental policy making. The section empowers readers to develop, through carefully designed assignments, a framework to shape an action plan to solve specific environmental problems. The next section focuses on formulating a sound philosophical basis for taking action in environmental problem-solving situations. This includes a discussion of several ethical frameworks that practitioners can use to underpin the actions they propose. This section begins with a general overview of environmental ethics, and then moves to a discussion of utilitarianism versus intrinsic value, deep green approaches to environmental problem-solving, the debate over sustainability versus economic growth, and how science and indigenous knowledge can be applied in a wide range of environmental problem-solving situations. The section empowers readers to take a stand on these debates, drawing on practical cases with worked examples. The penultimate section helps environmental practitioners understand how to use various analytical tools. It includes a quick survey of traditional and non-traditional evaluation techniques, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of each, focusing on environmental impact assessment, cost-benefit analysis, ecosystem services analysis, risk assessment, simulation and modeling, and scenario planning. This section prepares readers to practice multi-party environmental problem-solving, and to identify the power of each tool to enhance environmental problem-solving, developing the judgment to enumerate strengths and weaknesses as they see them playing out in practice. The concluding section is a survey of the theory and practice behind mobilizing support for particular problem-solving efforts. It includes discussions of democratic decision-making and environmental problem solving, how the public can be brought in as a partner, methods of collaborative decision-making, the idea of consensus building, and how politics and power sway collective action efforts.

Written by Japan-based scholars, the chapters in this book take a critical approach to understanding the impact of geo-politics on this strategically critical region.

This book brings together perspectives on resource exploitation to expose the continued environmental and socio-political struggles in post-colonial Africa. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of the environmental humanities and environmental studies.

Anthropocene Ecologies of Food provides a detailed exploration of cross-cultural aspects of food production, culinary practices, and their ecological underpinning in culture.

Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with members of parliament from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyse and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia.

Combining data from nearly 100 interviews with members of parliament from ten Asian countries, the contributors to this book analyse and evaluate the advancement of gender equality in Asia.

Featuring up-to-date and insightful analyses and comparative case studies from a plethora of countries, this timely book explores `ideal¿ socialist cities and their transformation under new socio-economic and political conditions after the fall of communism.

This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban "spaces of possibilities" and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships throughout the city and of culturally sensitive urban policies.

This volume examines historical views of stewardship that have sometimes allowed humans to ravage the earth as well as contemporary and futuristic visions of stewardship that will be necessary to achieve pragmatic progress to save life on earth as we know it.

This book maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time¿climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality¿which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world¿s population currently live.

This book maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time¿climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality¿which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world¿s population currently live.

This book explores the capacity of different stakeholders to work together build urban resilience to climate change through an equity-cantered approach to cross-sectoral collaboration.

Today more than ever, when the world is beset by environmental, social, healthcare, and economic challenges, we need courage in our politics, both nationally and globally. This book tells the stories of eleven individuals who made heroic contributions to protecting our planet through groundbreaking international treaties.

This edited book provides a broad collection of current critical reflections on heritage-making processes involving landscapes. It will appeal to researchers, academics and practitioners interested in heritage studies, cultural landscapes, conservation, geography and planning.

This edited book provides a broad collection of current critical reflections on heritage-making processes involving landscapes. It will appeal to researchers, academics and practitioners interested in heritage studies, cultural landscapes, conservation, geography and planning.

The Routledge Handbook of Social Change provides an interdisciplinary primer to the intellectual approaches that hold the key to understanding the complexity of social change in the twenty-first century.

Advanced Materials for Wastewater Treatment and Desalination: Fundamentals to Applications offers a comprehensive overview of current progress in the development of advanced materials used in wastewater treatment and desalination. The book is divided into 2 major sections, covering with both fundamentals and applications.

In this book, world-leading social scientists come together to provide original insights on the capacities and limitations of insurance in a changing world. Climate change is fundamentally changing the ways we insure, and the ways we think about insurance.

The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India.

The book explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed.

Featuring research from Australia, Europe and North America, this collection of cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary research-based chapters on work, workers and the regulation and management of workplace health and safety explores important historical examples and emerging contemporary trends in international and historical perspectives.

Bringing together scholarly research by climate experts working in different locations and social science disciplines, this book offers insights into how climate change is socially and culturally constructed.

This book explores how states in political transition use stamps to promote a new visual nationalism.