Environmental Studies (22)

An Anthology of Global Risk - cover image
  • Environmental Studies
  • Politics and Sociology

An Anthology of Global Risk

  • SJ Beard
  • Tom Hobson
This anthology brings together a diversity of key texts in the emerging field of Existential Risk Studies. It serves to complement the previous volume The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies by providing open access to original research and insights in this rapidly evolving field. At its heart, this book highlights the ongoing development of new academic paradigms and theories of change that have emerged from a community of researchers in and around the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. The chapters in this book challenge received notions of human extinction and civilization collapse and seek to chart new paths towards existential security and hope.
Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast: Conservation Histories, Policies and Practices in North-west Namibia - cover image
  • African Studies
  • Environmental Studies

Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast: Conservation Histories, Policies and Practices in North-west Namibia

  • Sian Sullivan
  • Ute Dieckmann
  • Selma Lendelvo
Etosha Pan to the Skeleton Coast examines the conservation histories and concerns of one of southern Africa’s most iconic conservation regions: the variously connected ‘Etosha-Kunene’ areas of north-central and north-west Namibia. This cross-disciplinary volume brings together contributions from a Namibian and international group of scholars and conservation practitioners, working on topics ranging from colonial histories to water management, perceptions of ‘wildlife’ and the politics of belonging. Together, these essays confront a critical question: how can the conservation of biodiversity-rich landscapes be reconciled with historical injustices of social exclusion and marginalisation?
Heavy Metal: Earth’s Minerals and the Future of Sustainable Societies - cover image
  • Environmental Studies
  • Politics and Sociology

Heavy Metal: Earth’s Minerals and the Future of Sustainable Societies

  • Philippe D. Tortell
Heavy Metal: Earth’s Minerals and the Future of Sustainable Societies brings together world-leading experts from across the globe to reimagine the future of mineral exploration and mining in a post-fossil fuel world.
A Country of Shepherds: Cultural Stories of a Changing Mediterranean Landscape - cover image
  • Environmental Studies
  • European Studies
  • Politics and Sociology

A Country of Shepherds: Cultural Stories of a Changing Mediterranean Landscape

  • Kathleen Ann Myers
This book draws on the life stories told by shepherds, farmers, and their families in the Andalusian region in Spain to sketch out the landscapes, actions, and challenges of people who work in pastoralism. Their narratives highlight how local practices interact with regional and European communities and policies, and they help us see a broader role for extensive grazing practices and sustainability.
The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies - cover image
  • Environmental Studies
  • Politics and Sociology

The Era of Global Risk: An Introduction to Existential Risk Studies

  • SJ Beard
  • Martin Rees
  • Catherine Richards
  • Clarissa Rios Rojas
This innovative and comprehensive collection of essays explores the biggest threats facing humanity in the 21st century; threats that cannot be contained or controlled and that have the potential to bring about human extinction and civilization collapse. Bringing together experts from many disciplines, it provides an accessible survey of what we know about these threats, how we can understand them better, and most importantly what can be done to manage them effectively.
Seabirds in the North-East Atlantic: Climate Change Vulnerability and Potential Conservation Actions - cover image
  • Environmental Studies

Seabirds in the North-East Atlantic: Climate Change Vulnerability and Potential Conservation Actions

  • Henry Häkkinen
  • Silviu O. Petrovan
  • Nigel G. Taylor
  • William J. Sutherland
  • Nathalie Pettorelli
This book was produced by the Zoological Society of London and the University of Cambridge with two aims: to assess seabirds’ vulnerability to climate change in the North-East Atlantic, and to identify potential conservation actions that could reduce this vulnerability.
Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art - cover image
  • American and Latin American Studies
  • Environmental Studies
  • Visual Arts

Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art

  • Joanna Page
In Decolonial Ecologies: The Reinvention of Natural History in Latin American Art, Joanna Page illuminates the ways in which contemporary artists in Latin America are reinventing historical methods of collecting, organizing, and displaying nature in order to develop new aesthetic and political perspectives on the past and the present.
Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making - cover image
  • Environmental Studies

Transforming Conservation: A Practical Guide to Evidence and Decision Making

  • William J. Sutherland
There are severe problems with the decision-making processes currently widely used, leading to ineffective use of evidence, faulty decisions, wasting of resources and the erosion of public and political support. In this book an international team of experts provide solutions.
Ecocene Politics - cover image
  • Environmental Studies
  • Politics and Sociology

Ecocene Politics

  • Mihnea Tănăsescu
Anchored in the diverse ecological practices of communities in southern Italy and Aotearoa/New Zealand, this book devises a unique and considered theoretical response to the shortcomings of global politics in the Ecocene—a new temporal epoch characterised by the increasingly frequent intrusion of ecological processes into political life.
Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis - cover image
  • Environmental Studies
  • Politics and Sociology

Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis

  • Steffen Böhm
  • Sian Sullivan
Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action.
What Works in Conservation: 2021 - cover image
  • Environmental Studies

What Works in Conservation: 2021

  • William J. Sutherland
  • Lynn V. Dicks
  • Silviu O. Petrovan
  • Rebecca K. Smith
This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 2526 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence.
Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe - cover image
  • Environmental Studies
  • European Studies
  • European Studies: Eastern European Studies
  • Politics and Sociology

Politics and the Environment in Eastern Europe

  • Eszter Krasznai Kovacs
This volume draws together essays by early-career academic researchers from across eastern Europe.
Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene - cover image
  • Anthropology
  • Environmental Studies

Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene

  • Chelsea Miya
  • Oliver Rossier
  • Geoffrey Rockwell
The essays in this volume critically examine scholarly research practices in the age of the Anthropocene, and ask what accountability educators and researchers have in ‘righting’ their relationship to the environment.
Terrestrial Mammal Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions for Terrestrial Mammals Excluding Bats and Primates - cover image
  • Environmental Studies

Terrestrial Mammal Conservation: Global Evidence for the Effects of Interventions for Terrestrial Mammals Excluding Bats and Primates

  • Nick A. Littlewood
  • Ricardo Rocha
  • Rebecca K. Smith
  • Philip A. Martin
  • Sarah L. Lockhart
  • Rebecca F. Schoonover
Terrestrial Mammal Conservation provides a thorough summary of the available scientific evidence of what is known, or not known, about the effectiveness of all of the conservation actions for wild terrestrial mammals across the world (excluding bats and primates, which are covered in separate synopses).
Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change - cover image
  • Environmental Studies
  • Media Studies and Journalism

Global Warming in Local Discourses: How Communities around the World Make Sense of Climate Change

  • Michael Brüggemann
  • Simone Rödder
Global news on anthropogenic climate change is shaped by international politics, scientific reports and voices from transnational protest movements. This timely volume asks how local communities engage with these transnational discourses.
Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing - cover image
  • Anthropology
  • Environmental Studies
  • Politics and Sociology

Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing

  • Sam Mickey
  • Mary Evelyn Tucker
  • John Grim
Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing is a celebration of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invitation to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innovative, informative, and highly accessible, this interdisciplinary anthology of essays brings together scholars, writers and educators across the sciences and humanities, in a collaborative effort to illuminate the different ways of being in the world and the different kinds of knowledge they entail – from the ecological knowledge of Indigenous communities, to the scientific knowledge of a biologist and the embodied knowledge communicated through storytelling.
Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet - cover image
  • Environmental Studies

Earth 2020: An Insider’s Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet

  • Philippe D. Tortell
Written by world-leading thinkers on the front-lines of global change research and policy, this multi-disciplinary collection maintains a dual focus: some essays investigate specific facets of the physical Earth system, while others explore the social, legal and political dimensions shaping the human environmental footprint.
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa - cover image
  • African Studies
  • Environmental Studies
  • Textbooks and Learning Guides

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • John W. Wilson
  • Richard B. Primack
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics such as sustainability, poverty, and human-wildlife conflict.
The Environment in the Age of the Internet: Activists, Communication, and the Digital Landscape - cover image
  • Environmental Studies
  • Media Studies and Journalism

The Environment in the Age of the Internet: Activists, Communication, and the Digital Landscape

  • Heike Graf
The Environment in the Age of the Internet is an interdisciplinary collection that draws together research and answers from media and communication studies, social sciences, modern history, and folklore studies. Edited by Heike Graf, its focus is on the communicative approaches taken by different groups to ecological issues, shedding light on how these groups tell their distinctive stories of "the environment".
Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes - cover image
  • Environmental Studies

Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes

  • Bhaskar Vira
  • Christoph Wildburger
  • Stephanie Mansourian
This volume provides important evidence and insights about the potential of forests to reducing global hunger and malnutrition, exploring the different roles of landscapes, and the governance approaches that are required for the equitable delivery of these benefits. Forests and Food is essential reading for researchers, students, NGOs and government departments responsible for agriculture, forestry, food security and poverty alleviation around the globe.
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa: 2nd Edition - cover image
  • Environmental Studies
  • Textbooks and Learning Guides

Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa: 2nd Edition

  • John W. Wilson
  • Richard B. Primack
FORTHCOMING
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa is the definitive open-access textbook on essential conservation issues in the region. Now in its updated Second Edition, this prizewinning volume, which can be downloaded for free, is an invaluable resource for university courses, as well as a handy guide for professionals working to halt the increasing loss of biodiversity.
Biologie de la conservation en Afrique subsaharienne: 2ème édition - cover image
  • Environmental Studies
  • Textbooks and Learning Guides

Biologie de la conservation en Afrique subsaharienne: 2ème édition

  • John W. Wilson
  • Richard B. Primack
FORTHCOMING
Ce livre, publié par Open Book Publishers, est disponible gratuitement au format PDF. La décision des auteurs de rendre ce livre en libre accès est remarquable, d’autant plus que cela permet d’attribuer à l’ouvrage une importance majeure dans le domaine de la conservation et de la biodiversité en Afrique et par les africains. Je recommande ce manuel aux étudiants africains, au personnel chargé de la conservation, aux responsables politiques et à toute personne intéressée par la conservation de la nature. La distribution gratuite assure un large lectorat parmi les universitaires, chercheurs et autres professionnels africains de l'environnement. Ce volume offre une rare opportunité d'accès à la recherche sur la biodiversité en Afrique, et les informations fournies peuvent être utilisées non seulement pour améliorer la collaboration intra-africaine en matière de recherche mais également pour renforcer les capacités locales et régionales en matière de recherche sur le continent. Cet ouvrage est actuellement la publication la plus complète sur la conservation en Afrique. Il constitue un point de référence pour les spécialistes de l'environnement, les biologistes de la faune et vie sauvage, les conservateurs et les responsables politiques qui travaillent sur l'environnement ainsi que sur la faune et vie sauvage en Afrique ; il est appelé à devenir un classique.