Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Ecophenomenology and the Environmental Crisis in the Sundarbans: Towards a Community-Based Ethic
1st Edition
By Kalpita Bhar Paul
December 26, 2025
This book offers a philosophical analysis of the environmental crisis in the Indian Sundarbans, drawing upon phenomenological narratives. It nuances the present understanding of the crisis by introducing plurality in our metaphysical understanding of the environment and epistemological ...
Wilderness and Ecopsychology: From Anthropocentrism to Ecological Awareness
1st Edition
By Anastasios Gaitanidis, Alan Bainbridge, Isabella Mighetto
December 22, 2025
Offering a radical interdisciplinary exploration of human-wilderness relationships during our current climate crisis, and drawing on psychoanalytic insight, political critique, and ecological wisdom, this volume diagnoses the profound alienation endemic to late capitalist modernity while ...
Ethics Across Borders: Reimagining Religious, Political, and Ecological Divides
1st Edition
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By Gary Slater, Lisa Landoe Hedrick
December 19, 2025
Ethics Across Borders assembles perspectives from geographers, historians, theologians, philosophers, and scientists to explore ethically relevant connections across multiple types of borders. The contemporary global order is fluid, increasingly unstable, and riven with borders at countless and ...
Frontier Thinking and Human-Nature Relations: We Were Never Western
1st Edition
By E. C. H. Keskitalo
November 28, 2025
Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a compelling critique of ‘frontier thinking’ as it continues to form our assumptions about social and environmental organisation – in ways that impact not least the present environmental crisis. This book systematically ...
Making CO₂ a Resource: The Interplay Between Research, Innovation and Industry
1st Edition
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By Øyvind Stokke, Elin M. Oftedal
November 28, 2025
This interdisciplinary book explores how CO2 can become a resource instead of a waste and, as such, be a tool to meet one of the grandest challenges humanity is facing: climate change. Drawing on a Norwegian narrative that has significance for a global audience, Øyvind Stokke and Elin Oftedal ...
Greenpeace in the Circumpolar North: Lessons Learned from the Anti-Sealing Era
1st Edition
By Danita Catherine Burke
November 04, 2025
This book explores Greenpeace’s efforts to expand its engagement in the Circumpolar North in the 21st century and how this work is affected and informed by the organization’s controversial legacy of anti-sealing campaigning in the 1970s and 1980s. Presenting the fallout for peoples and cultures ...
Politics of the Anthropocene and Climate Crisis in India: Seeking Socio-Ecological Transformations
1st Edition
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By Purendra Prasad, Lalatendu Keshari Das
October 21, 2025
This book focuses on the complex and contested nature of transformation in India, from a social and political ecology perspective. Given that the age of Anthropocene is increasingly threatening to undermine the present world order, the countries in the Global South are at the forefront of debates ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Vernacular Landscapes and Cultural Heritage
1st Edition
By Gül Aktürk
October 20, 2025
This book reveals the impacts of climate change and anthropogenic interventions on vernacular landscapes as a cultural heritage through an analysis of regional and urban development projects and local-level practices. Vernacular landscapes encompass customs, practices, places, objects, artistic ...
Environmental and Technological Threats in the Arctic Region: Infrastructures, Geopolitics and Strategy
1st Edition
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By Mathieu Landriault, Magali Vullierme, Michael Delaunay
September 09, 2025
Arctic subregions have undergone major structural changes in the past few decades. Looking past traditional military and geopolitical understandings of these regions, this book focuses rather on climate change and on the emergence of the digital economy and its infrastructures as two of the most ...
Working Through Planetary Breakdown: Labour, Skill and the Changing Climate
1st Edition
Edited
By Chantel Carr, Jesse Adams Stein
August 10, 2025
This book offers a genuinely interdisciplinary engagement with the future of paid and unpaid work in the context of the twin challenges of decarbonisation and the growing impacts of an unstable climate. It is innovative in its grounding of such discussions in the everyday realities of workers’ ...
Music and the Performing Arts in the Anthropocene: Nature, Materialities and Ecological Transformation
1st Edition
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By François Ribac, Isabelle Moindrot, Nicolas Donin
August 08, 2025
Music and the Performing Arts in the Anthropocene offers a series of thought-provoking chapters about music and the performing arts viewed from current Anthropocene-aware perspectives. From the use of gas, water and air in 19th-century stage practices to the ecology of musical instruments and sound...
Disruptive Innovations and the Environmental Crisis: Ethical, Practical, and Sociopolitical Concerns
1st Edition
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By Donald S. Maier, Justin Donhauser, Michael Weber
July 03, 2025
This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world’s various environmental crises. Packed with keen observations and analyses, the volume brings together research from seasoned scholars and rising stars to cast...