Bücher der Reihe Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts

Discusses the opportunities and constraints that environmental systems place upon human systems and suggests environmental policy is a potential way to modify the operation of human systems so that they function within environmental constraints

An introduction for students with little or no legal background, to the role of law in environmental protection. It also explains how strategies from the fields of ethics, science, economics and politics can further an understanding of the proper form and content of environmental law itself.

Presents an introduction to the many layers of the 'human urban environment'. This book examines a range of issues and elements that make-up the urban environment, including the consumption of resources, population pressures, and the pattern of urban development.

Introduces readers to environmental problems by presenting, and then challenging, two approaches to environmental decision-making, one from environmental economics, the other from environmental philosophy. This book examines the implications of this approach for policy issues such as biodiversity conservation and sustainability.

Explores how business and the environment interact. It assumes no previous knowledge of business studies and includes boxed case-studies ranging from local enterprise to multinational companies.

Presents an introduction to the inter-relationship of food and the environment. This title intends to bring to our attention the multiplicity of linkages and interconnections between what we eat and how this impacts on the earth's resources.

As environmental issues move to the centre of the political debate, more attention is being focused on the role our economy has played in creating the ecological crisis, and what a sustainable economy might look like. This book offers an insight into the history of thinking that has linked economy and environment.

Updated to reflect new research and developments, and with original international case studies, this introductory text brings together the theory and practice that make up 'biodiversity' and 'conservation'.

"This completely revised second edition of Gender and Environment explains the inter-relationship between gender relations and environmental problems and practices, and how they affect and impact on each other"--

Introduces the ways in which politics and policy respond to the diverse challenges of environmental problems. Outlining the position of politics within an interdisciplinary environmental focus, the book examines the full range of green politics.

Evidence of climate change, resource shortages and biodiversity loss is growing in significance year by year. This book explains how policy can respond and bring about sustainability in individual lifestyles, corporate strategies, national policies and international relations. It discusses the interaction between environmental and human systems.

Uses global case studies to examine technological solutions to energy-related environmental problems and suggests that social, economic and political solutions may be needed to avoid serious future environmental damage.

Offers a thematic centred approach, which serves as a guide to the way in which the environment and social theory relate to one another including examinations of the works of the key theorists such as Marx, Mill, Habermas, and Adorno.