Earth-Science/Environment

Caring for the Commons: Community Forest Management and Creation of Social Capital explores the interconnection between community management of for...

Dr. RM.Manickavasagam, Retired Professor from Earth Sciences and Institute Instrumentation Center, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) , Roorkee, ...

Rural Geographies provides a critical, contemporary and accessible introduction to rural change by using geographical ideas to understand current i...

This book is an exciting reappraisal of the role and practice of biodiversity monitoring, showing how new technologies and software applications ar...

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...

The arbitrary exploitation of natural resources and ignorance of the deleterious effects have resulted in the alarming increase of environmental po...

Remote sensing has been defined as the detection, recognition or evolution of objects by means of distant sensing or recording devices. Historicall...

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...

**Named a 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title** Combining coverage of key themes and debates from a variety of historical and theoretical persp...

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...

This book traces the triangular strategic relationship of India, Pakistan and China over the second half of the twentieth century, and shows how tw...

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...

Petroleum-based fuels are well-established products that have served industry and consumers for more than one hundred years. However petroleum, onc...

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...

Dedicated to remote sensing images, from their acquisition to their use in various applications, this book covers the global lifecycle of images, i...

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

The updated and expanded guide for handling industrial wastes and designing a wastewater treatment plant The revised and updated second edition of...

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

This book seeks to illuminate the organizational and social dimensions of Global Information Systems. It provides a broad and historical perspectiv...

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

Over the years, the interactions between land, ocean, biosphere and atmosphere have increased, mainly due to population growth and anthropogenic ac...

The Times (Obituaries, 4 August 2008) reported that “John Thornes was one of the most eminent and influential physical geographers of his generatio...

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 ...

At a time when people use more and more geographic information and tools, the management of geographical information in software systems still hold...

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...

Indoor Air Quality: The Latest Sampling and Analytical Methods, Third Edition is a practical, user-friendly guide to the identification and assessm...

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 Media and Communication systematically analyzes the relationship between geography and communication and shows how geographical appr...

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...

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 has identified four priority areas for Disaster Risk Reduction: understanding disaster r...

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