Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century: Questions of Stewardship and Accountability
1st Edition
Edited
By Katherine M. Quinsey
March 13, 2025
Christian Environmentalism and Human Responsibility in the 21st Century comprises original scholarly essays and creative works exploring the implications of Christian environmentalism through literary and cultural criticism and creative reflection. The volume draws on a flourishing recent body of ...
Ecological Democracy: Caring for the Earth in the Anthropocene
1st Edition
By Odin Lysaker
February 17, 2025
Ecological Democracy offers an original, thought-provoking, and engaging treatment of why and how democracy should be re-imagined in reaction to today’s ecological crisis. The book explains that one need to re-imagine both the view on nature and democratic ideals within the same framework in the ...
Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises
1st Edition
By Massih Zekavat, Tabea Scheel
October 08, 2024
Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises explores how satire and humor can be employed to address and mitigate ecological crises at individual and collective levels. Besides scientific and technological endeavors, solutions to ecological crises must entail social and communicative reform to ...
UN Human Rights Institutions and the Environment: Synergies, Challenges, Trajectories
1st Edition
By Sumudu Atapattu
October 04, 2024
This book presents an in-depth analysis of how UN human rights institutions and mechanisms have addressed environmental protection, sustainable development, and climate change. Despite the increasing involvement of UN human rights bodies in addressing environmental degradation and climate change,...
Urban Aerial Pesticide Spraying Campaigns: Government Disinformation, Industry Profits, and Public Harm
1st Edition
By Manuel Vallée
October 04, 2024
This book examines social processes that have contributed to growing pesticide use, with a particular focus on the role governments play in urban aerial pesticide spraying operations. Beyond being applied to sparsely populated farmland, pesticides have been increasingly used in densely populated ...
Rethinking Geographical Explorations in Extreme Environments: From the Arctic to the Mountaintops
1st Edition
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By Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, Stefano Morosini
August 26, 2024
Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile’s expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. Mountaintops and Arctic environments are the settings of social ...
Art, Farming and Food for the Future: Transforming Agriculture
1st Edition
By Barbara L. Benish, Nathalie Blanc
May 27, 2024
This book explores the impact of artistic experiments in inspiring people to turn away from current food consumerism and take an active role in preserving, sustaining, and protecting the environment. As artists are expanding their practice into social justice and community concerns, erasing ...
Governance Networks for Sustainable Cities: Connecting Theory and Practice in Europe
1st Edition
By Katherine Maxwell
May 27, 2024
This book explores the effectiveness of governance networks on the design and implementation of sustainability strategies. European cities are actively developing sustainability strategies to address the impact of climate change. One recent approach many cities have taken is the creation of ‘...
Energy, Environment and Geopolitics in Eurasia: Search for Security in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
1st Edition
By Norman A. Graham, Şuhnaz Yılmaz
December 22, 2023
This book advances our understanding of security and its intricate interactions with geopolitics and the environment in Eurasia. Norman A. Graham and Şuhnaz Yılmaz focus on Eurasia, where the energy-water-food nexus has emerged as a vital aspect of political economy and increasinglyas a decisive ...
The Political Ecology of Austerity: Crisis, Social Movements, and the Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Rita Calvário, Maria Kaika, Giorgos Velegrakis
September 25, 2023
The Political Ecology of Austerity explores the environmental dimension of austerity that has thus far escaped academic, policy, and media attention. Offering a better comprehension of the full socio-environmental impact of austerity measures, the book highlights the importance of considering ...
Myth and Environmentalism: Arts of Resilience for a Damaged Planet
1st Edition
Edited
By Esther Sánchez-Pardo, María Porras Sánchez
July 05, 2023
This volume traces the interconnections between myth, environmentalism, narrative, poetry, comics, and innovative artistic practice, using this as a framework through which to examine strategies for repairing our unhealthy relationship with the planet. Challenging late capitalist modes encouraging ...
Globalization, Environmental Law, and Sustainable Development in the Global South: Challenges for Implementation
1st Edition
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By Kirk W. Junker, Paolo Davide Farah
May 31, 2023
This volume examines the impact of globalization on international environmental law and the implementation of sustainable development in the Global South. Comprising contributions from lawyers from the Global South or who have experience in the Global South, this volume is organized into three ...