Earth-Science/Environment

Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology c...

Environmental Ethics and Sustainability: A Casebook for Environmental Professionals introduces a decision-making model constructed from the viewpoi...

From the Foundations in Global Studies series, this student-friendly text follows a two-pronged approach to help readers understand the globalizing...

An increase in major natural disasters―and the growing number of damaging events involving gas, electric, water, and other utilities―has led to hei...

Ecosystem Dynamics focuses on long-term terrestrial ecosystems and their changing relationships with human societies. The unique aspect of this te...

If the whole world wanted to live like people in the United Kingdom we would need the resources of three planets like Earth. If the United States w...

Ecological Applications presents a broad range of methods and techniques for managing environmental sustainability. This book examines ecological t...

Ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine the relationship between humans and the environment across many areas of cultural production, in...

There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means...

The second edition of this leading textbook provides the definitive guide to disaster health management. From the key concepts, principles and term...

Taking a critical and historical view, this text explores the theory and changing practice of international development. It provides an overview of...

What is sustainability? Much has been said about the terms ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’ over the last few decades, but they have ...

Human geographers have been at the forefront of research that examines the relationships between space, culture and society. This volume contains t...

Contested Worlds provides an introduction both to a multitude of geographical worlds which are currently being actively constructed and contested, ...

Climate, Science and Society: A Primer makes cutting-edge research on climate change accessible to student readers. The primer consists of 37 shor...

Since 2009, a diverse group of developing states that includes China, Brazil, Ethiopia and Costa Rica has been advancing unprecedented pledges to m...

This bold and important new book presents current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change. Using clear language and powerf...

The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of...

Offering a comprehensive approach, this title covers fundamentals, technologies, and management of biological processing of solid waste. It discuss...

A new edition of a unique textbook that provides an exhaustive treatment of the world's different coasts―with focus on climate change sea-level ris...

Basin Analysis is an advanced undergraduate and postgraduate text aimed at understanding sedimentary basins as geodynamic entities. The rationale o...

Geography of South Asia studies the geography of South Asian countries comprising Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Maldiv...