Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
About the Book Series
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The Myth of Sustainable Cities: Losing the Holocene
1st Edition
By Stephanie Pincetl
September 10, 2026
These foreboding times are producing an understandable sense of urgency, a desire to envision and enact alternative systems as soon as possible. This book is written for readers who wish not just to understand the roots of our current political and environmental dilemmas, but for those seeking a ...
Designing Multispecies Neighbourhoods in Urban Seascapes: Placemaking and Storytelling
1st Edition
By Elin Tanding Sørensen
August 11, 2026
Designing Multispecies Neighbourhoods in Urban Seascapes offers a unique practice–led investigation into the complexities of multispecies placemaking, design, and storytelling in urban seascapes—drawing on experiences from the Oslofjord, the Skagerrak, Muolkkut in Finnmárku County (Northern Norway)...
Non-Market Valuation in South Asia: Bridging Theory and Practice in Environmental Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohammad Bhatt
July 20, 2026
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the challenges and issues concerning the economic valuation of natural resources. The authors present methods and tools that can help in designing policies and frameworks for the sustainable use of natural resources. This is followed by an ...
Rethinking and Relearning Disaster Adaptations from and within Indigenous Land-Based Perspectives
1st Edition
By Ranjan Datta, Margot Hurlbert, Arifatul Kibria, Rajmoni Singha, Barsha Kairy, Somashree Chattapadhya
July 20, 2026
This book offers a critical exploration into Indigenous knowledge systems, particularly focusing on Indigenous land-based knowledge and practice in reshaping disaster adaptations. Drawing from Indigenous communities in Bangladesh, this book challenges transformational approaches to disaster ...
Understanding Human-Nature Practices for Environmental Management: Examples from Northern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By E. C. H. Keskitalo
July 20, 2026
Nature has often been understood in literature through a disjunction to human systems. This can be seen in the nature-culture binary, or even more clearly in the opposition of ‘wilderness’ to ‘civilization’. Drawing on historical and present-day examples and case studies from Northern Europe, this ...
Just Transition and Impact Assessment: A Framework for Human and Ecological Wellbeing
1st Edition
By Adebayo Majekolagbe
June 09, 2026
This volume reframes narratives on just transition and explores how impact assessment modes can be deployed for just transition ends. Traditionally, just transition focuses on local jobs and workers, and its application in the context of climate change retains this focus. From its recognition in ...
Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge and Sustainability: Settler Colonialism and the Environmental Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Ranjan Datta, Jebunnessa Chapola, John Bosco Acharibasam
May 22, 2026
This edited volume explores the crucial intersections between Indigenous Land-Based Knowledge (ILK), sustainability, settler colonialism, and the ongoing environmental crisis. Contributors from cross-cultural communities, including Indigenous, settlers, immigrants, and refugee communities, discuss ...
Problematising Water: An Experiment on the Edges of Interdisciplinarity
1st Edition
By Nicole Vitellone
May 01, 2026
Problematising Water: An Experiment on the Edges of Interdisciplinarity is a manifestation of thinking with water across a range of disciplines including human geography, sociology, anthropology, science and technology studies, and ethnomethodology.In this book, Vitellone reveals the alliances ...
A Critical Introduction to the Economics of Sustainability
1st Edition
By Brett Caraway
April 18, 2026
This book explores the various schools of thought which have endeavored to understand the interactions between technological development, economic growth, and the movement of material and energy through biological and social systems. Examining both economic thought and technological development ...
Planning Law and Environmental Limits: A New Legal Architecture for Emissions
1st Edition
By Naomi Luhde-Thompson
March 23, 2026
This book explores the role of planning law in balancing the dilemma of resource extraction with the recognition of greenhouse gas emission limits. Naomi Luhde-Thompson explores how planning law, which is one of the strongest forms of environmental regulation in the UK, has failed to incorporate ...
Voluntary Environmental Programs in the United States and China
1st Edition
By Pianpian Wang
February 13, 2026
This book explores the effectiveness of voluntary environmental programs (VEPs): initiatives designed and managed by social actors to motivate participants to achieve environmental goals beyond legal requirements. Contrasting the approaches taken in the United States and China, Pianpian Wang ...
Lifetime Carbon Debt
1st Edition
By Chris Anastasi
February 02, 2026
Lifetime Carbon Debt shows how individuals can help global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by addressing their own annual and lifetime emissions. People around the world look to governments to provide leadership and action on climate change, and to industry and the wider business ...