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Environmental <strong>Politics</strong> 55<br />

TEXTBOOK • 3RD EDITION<br />

<strong>Politics</strong> <strong>and</strong> the Environment<br />

From Theory to Practice<br />

James Connelly, University of Hull, UK, Graham Smith,<br />

David Benson, University of East Anglia, UK <strong>and</strong><br />

Clare Saunders, University of Southampton, UK<br />

<strong>Politics</strong> <strong>and</strong> the Environment has established itself as the<br />

most comprehensive textbook in this area. This new edition<br />

has been completely revised <strong>and</strong> updated whilst retaining<br />

the features <strong>and</strong> the theory to practice focus which made<br />

the first two editions so successful. This text is designed to<br />

introduce students to the key concepts <strong>and</strong> issues which<br />

surround environmental problems <strong>and</strong> their political<br />

solutions. The authors investigate the people, movements<br />

<strong>and</strong> organisations that form <strong>and</strong> implement these policies,<br />

<strong>and</strong> explore the barriers which hinder successful introduction of international<br />

environmental politics. This new edition has been exp<strong>and</strong>ed to include:<br />

• the shift in focus in environmental politics from sustainable development to climate<br />

change governance<br />

• far more material on climate change including institutional, national <strong>and</strong> global<br />

responses in the aftermath of the Kyoto protocol<br />

• an increased international focus with more case studies from the UK, Europe,<br />

Australia <strong>and</strong> North America<br />

• more discussion of global environmental social movements including the <strong>US</strong><br />

environmental organisations, in particular the Green Party <strong>and</strong> the environmental<br />

justice groups<br />

• there is an additional co-author for this edition, David Benson from UEA.<br />

This textbook is an invaluable <strong>and</strong> accessible resource for undergraduates studying<br />

environmental politics.<br />

March 2012: 246x174: 440pp<br />

Hb: 978-0-415-57211-8: $130.00<br />

Pb: 978-0-415-57212-5: $44.95<br />

eBook: 978-0-203-13549-5<br />

★ For full contents <strong>and</strong> more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415572125<br />

TEXTBOOK<br />

Sustainability<br />

If It’s Everything, Is it Nothing?<br />

Heather Farley <strong>and</strong> Zachary A. Smith, both at Northern Arizona University, <strong>US</strong>A<br />

Series: Critical Issues in Global <strong>Politics</strong><br />

The concept of sustainability has become highly important in the business<br />

community, academia, <strong>and</strong> government. Both in the U.S. <strong>and</strong> internationally,<br />

sustainability is used as a guiding principle in policy decision-making, development<br />

planning, natural resource management, advocacy coalitions, <strong>and</strong> within various<br />

professional <strong>and</strong> academic fields. Despite sustainability’s prevalence among so many<br />

actors <strong>and</strong> organizations, the concept itself remains highly contested. This book<br />

defines <strong>and</strong> delineates exactly what sustainability does <strong>and</strong> does not mean.<br />

June <strong>2013</strong>: 216x138: 192pp<br />

Hb: 978-0-415-78353-8: $140.00<br />

Pb: 978-0-415-78354-5: $39.95<br />

★ For full contents <strong>and</strong> more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415783545<br />

TEXTBOOK • 2ND EDITION<br />

Sustainable Development<br />

Susan Baker, Cardiff Univeristy, UK<br />

Series: <strong>Routledge</strong> Introductions to Environment: Environment <strong>and</strong> Society Texts<br />

This accessible text explores how the international community is responding to the<br />

challenge of sustainable development. It investigates the prospect for <strong>and</strong> barriers to<br />

its promotion in the high consumption societies of the industrialised world of the<br />

<strong>US</strong>A, Europe, the Third World <strong>and</strong> economies of transition in East <strong>and</strong> Central<br />

Europe. The book explores the global impact of China <strong>and</strong> how Chinese investments<br />

are shaping prospects for sustainable development in Africa. Local action is also<br />

discussed, from the transition towns movement in the UK to the Green Belt<br />

movement in Kenya.<br />

December <strong>2013</strong>: 234x156: 354pp<br />

Hb: 978-0-415-52291-5: $125.00<br />

Pb: 978-0-415-52292-2: $45.95<br />

eBook: 978-0-203-12117-7<br />

★ For full contents <strong>and</strong> more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415522922<br />

Four Degrees of Global Warming<br />

Australia in a Hot World<br />

edited by Peter Christoff, University of Melbourne,<br />

Australia<br />

At Copenhagen in December 2009, the international<br />

community agreed to limit global average warming to below<br />

2 Celsius in order to avoid the worst impacts of induced<br />

climate change. However, climate scientists now agree that<br />

instead there will be average global warming of around 4<br />

degrees by 2100, <strong>and</strong> to between 6 <strong>and</strong> 12 degrees in<br />

centuries thereafter. This ‘ambition gap’ between climate<br />

science <strong>and</strong> climate policy makes the possibility of a ‘Four<br />

Degree World’ a reality. This book outlines the expected<br />

impacts of global average warming of 4 degrees in Australia<br />

<strong>and</strong> its region. Its overarching message is that this will<br />

cause radical transformations.<br />

June <strong>2013</strong>: 234x156: 224pp<br />

Hb: 978-0-415-82457-6: $145.00<br />

Pb: 978-0-415-82458-3: $31.95<br />

eBook: 978-0-203-37047-6<br />

★ For full contents <strong>and</strong> more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415824583<br />

TEXTBOOK<br />

Environmental Governance<br />

J.P. Evans, University of Manchester, UK<br />

Series: <strong>Routledge</strong> Introductions to Environment:<br />

Environment <strong>and</strong> Society Texts<br />

Climate change is the greatest threat humanity has ever<br />

faced <strong>and</strong> changing society to cope with it is its greatest<br />

challenge. This realisation is prompting an unprecedented<br />

questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society<br />

is founded. This book considers ‘governance’ in a broad<br />

sense, to explore how the environment is controlled,<br />

manipulated, regulated, <strong>and</strong> contested by a range of actors<br />

<strong>and</strong> institutions. It highlights how the different approaches<br />

currently in play frame environmental problems in distinctive<br />

ways, privileging different solutions <strong>and</strong> types of change. Drawing on cutting edge<br />

debates, the question of change forms a core concern that runs throughout the<br />

book. The book is unique in navigating the reader through the tangled undergrowth<br />

of often overlapping <strong>and</strong> competing approaches. It is essential reading for students<br />

of the environment <strong>and</strong> anyone concerned changing society in order to prevent<br />

global environmental crisis.<br />

2011: 234x156: 272pp<br />

Hb: 978-0-415-58981-9: $144.00<br />

Pb: 978-0-415-58982-6: $46.95<br />

eBook: 978-0-203-15567-7<br />

★ For full contents <strong>and</strong> more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415589826<br />

TEXTBOOK<br />

Environmental Justice<br />

Concepts, Evidence <strong>and</strong> <strong>Politics</strong><br />

Gordon Walker, University of Lancaster, UK<br />

The book will provide readers with a wide ranging <strong>and</strong><br />

critical view of the evolving field of environmental justice<br />

scholarship. It encourages careful thinking <strong>and</strong> analysis of<br />

what is at issue, <strong>and</strong> provides a framework for<br />

underst<strong>and</strong>ing the claim making of environmental justice in<br />

spatial, temporal <strong>and</strong> political context. It provides compelling<br />

examples of the processes involved in producing inequalities<br />

<strong>and</strong> a clear sense of the challenges involved in advancing the<br />

interests of disadvantaged, vulnerable <strong>and</strong> excluded social<br />

groups <strong>and</strong> communities. For those interested in policy<br />

measures it also provides a systematic account of the various<br />

ways in which the tools, measures <strong>and</strong> strategies of<br />

environmental governance might be made more responsive to justice concerns.<br />

2011: 234x156: 272pp<br />

Hb: 978-0-415-58973-4: $145.00<br />

Pb: 978-0-415-58974-1: $51.95<br />

★ For full contents <strong>and</strong> more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415589741<br />

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