Earth-Science/Environment

Almost every advance in science and technology brings new and unexpected problems in its wake. Thus the motorcar, aeroplane, high-speed machine too...

For the past two centuries the basic composition of the Earth’s atmosphere has been materially altered by the fossil fuel effluvia of machine cultu...

This book introduces students to the study and analysis of poverty. Perfect as an introductory textbook for students across sociology, global devel...

This volume provides an up-to-date, authoritative synthesis of the discipline of human geography. Unparalleled in scope, the companion offers an in...

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography presents students and researchers with a comprehensive overview of the field, put together by a...

We live in a world that is increasingly difficult to understand. It is not just changing: it is metamorphosing. Change implies that some things cha...

The seventh edition of this classic student text explores the multitude of impacts that humans have had over time upon vegetation, animals, soils, ...

The Human Footprint is a global, thematic, and multi–disciplinary history of the planet, from its earliest origins to its current condition. Avoidi...

The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of global policy on climate and the envi...

The Globalization and Environment Reader features a collection of classic and cutting-edge readings that explore whether and how globalization can ...

This is your concise, up to date guide to global environmental ethics. This fully updated and expanded textbook gives you new reflections on global...

This fully-revised comprehensive fourth edition covers the whole field of physical geography including climate and atmosphere, geomorphology, bioge...

Sustainability: Key Issues is a comprehensive introductory textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students doing courses in sustainability. Hi...

The pursuit of sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe; innovations within the arts and sciences, business,...

The pursuit of sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, widespread initiatives within civil society and bus...

Rural Development is a textbook that critically examines economic, social and cultural aspects of rural development efforts both in the global nort...

Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive re...

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating to the ways that actors create...

Providing both a theoretical background and practical examples of natural resource conflict, this volume explores the pressures on natural resource...

The new edition presents the themes of geopolitical structures and agents in an engaging and accessible manner, with no previous knowledge of theor...

Introducing Human Geographies is a ‘travel guide’ into the academic subject of human geography and the things that it studies. The coverage of the ...

Environmental stories have all the elements that make for a good drama-villains that plunge us into danger, and heroes that fight for positive chan...

The field of human rights and the environment has grown phenomenally during the last few years and this textbook will be one of the first to encour...

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and development, and the way governments, business and environmental...

Governing Climate Change, Second Edition, provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse...

Today’s global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transform t...

Geopolitics and Development examines the historical emergence of development as a form of governmentality, from the end of empire to the Cold War a...

Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text, presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenge...

The first book to focus exclusively on the subject, Geodiversity, Second Edition describes the interrelationships between geodiversity and biodiver...

Over the last 60 years, we have recognized increasingly that our world is connected, and the impacts of environmental catastrophes and economic cri...

The field of Environmental Management (EM) involves a broad and evolving repertoire of practices. The field originated around 1970 in response to n...

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

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...

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...

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

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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...

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

This established textbook offers a one-stop, comprehensive coverage of air pollution, all in an easy-reading and accessible style. The fourth editi...

Agricultural Landscapes: Seeing Rural Through Design follows on from the author’s previous books, Rural Design and Architecture and Agriculture, to...

In a world increasingly concerned about the impact of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere on global climate, the A Carbon P...

This book is a comprehensive overview of the ever-captivating field of glaciation from the perspective of glacial landsystems. This approach models...