Environment and Sustainability
Featured Books
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
£40.00 / $40.00
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Climate Change and the Future of Seattle
Yonn Dierwechter
This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279454
March 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book explores Seattle’s current climate policy agenda and future climate challenges within the context of its historical, bio-regional, and metropolitan settings.
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Art and Design in 1960s New York
Amanda Gluibizzi
Art and Design in 1960s New York explores the mutual influence of fine art and graphic design in Manhattan during the long decade of the 1960s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785276651
February 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Art and Design in 1960s New York explores the mutual influence of fine art and graphic design in Manhattan during the long decade of the 1960s.
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Turkey’s Water Diplomacy
Analysis of its Foundations, Challenges and Prospects
Aysegül Kibaroglu
‘Turkey’s Water Diplomacy’ presents the legal and institutional foundations of Turkey’s water diplomacy within its historical and geographical contexts. It analyses the evolving position of Turkey vis-à- vis the international water law. Delineating actors and processes in transboundary water policy-making, ‘Turkey’s Water Diplomacy’ utilizes the Water Diplomacy Framework in making policy-relevant recommendations for tackling future challenges in Turkey’s water diplomacy.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088119
February 2021
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Turkey’s Water Diplomacy’ presents the legal and institutional foundations of Turkey’s water diplomacy within its historical and geographical contexts. It analyses the evolving position of Turkey vis-à- vis the international water law. Delineating actors and processes in transboundary water policy-making, ‘Turkey’s Water Diplomacy’ utilizes the Water Diplomacy Framework in making policy-relevant recommendations for tackling future challenges in Turkey’s water diplomacy.
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Environmental Problem-Solving: Balancing Science and Politics Using Consensus Building Tools
Guided Readings and Assignments from MIT’s Training Program for Environmental Professionals
Lawrence Susskind, Bruno Verdini, Jessica Gordon, Yasmin Zaerpoor
'Environmental Problem-Solving' offers a self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271311
October 2020
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£150.00 / $150.00‘Environmental Problem-Solving’ offers a self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems.
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Climate Chaos and its Origins in Slavery and Capitalism
Reva Blau, Judith Blau
Climate Chaos argues powerfully that unless global citizens come together to change the infrastructure and value system of capitalist greed and consumption, human society will not survive past this century.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785275272
October 2020
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£29.99 / $29.99Climate Chaos argues powerfully that unless global citizens come together to change the infrastructure and value system of capitalist greed and consumption, human society will not survive past this century.
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Urban Crisis, Urban Hope
A Policy Agenda for UK Cities
Edited by Julian Dobson, Rowland Atkinson
Urban Crisis, Urban Hope is an urgent, informed, and passionate critique at the crisis that has been allowed to develop in our cities, and a wide-ranging agenda for change to challenge all political and government institutions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274688
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Urban Crisis, Urban Hope is an urgent, informed, and passionate critique at the crisis that has been allowed to develop in our cities, and a wide-ranging agenda for change to challenge all political and government institutions.
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Land and Agrarian Transformation in Zimbabwe
Rethinking Rural Livelihoods in the Aftermath of the Land Reforms
Grasian Mkodzongi
This book explores the outcomes of Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform implemented in 2000. The book pays particular attention to changing livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s countryside occasioned by the land reform.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274152
June 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book explores the outcomes of Zimbabwe’s fast track land reform implemented in 2000. The book pays particular attention to changing livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s countryside occasioned by the land reform.
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Cities, Climate Change, and Public Health
Building Human Resilience to Climate Change at the Local Level
Ella Jisun Kim
This book examines how cities can use a public health frame of climate change to boost people’s understanding of and concern about climate change and increase policy support for climate adaptation efforts at the local level. It also presents new tools for cities to enhance awareness of and facilitate prioritization of climate risk management choices.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273247
April 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00This book examines how cities can use a public health frame of climate change to boost people’s understanding of and concern about climate change and increase policy support for climate adaptation efforts at the local level. It also presents new tools for cities to enhance awareness of and facilitate prioritization of climate risk management choices.
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Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance
Expert Institutions and the Implementation of International Environmental Treaties
Pia M. Kohler
“Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance” examines expert committees advising multilateral environmental agreements on ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants and land degradation. This work argues the co-production arising in these committees warrants recognizing their contribution to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785271465
November 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00“Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance” examines expert committees advising multilateral environmental agreements on ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants and land degradation. This work argues the co-production arising in these committees warrants recognizing their contribution to an emerging global environmental constitutionalism.
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Multicriteria Analysis for Environmental Decision-Making
Davide Geneletti
The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis, and a series of case studies that illustrate its application to a variety of environmental decision-making problems, ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental impact assessment of tourism infrastructures.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089529
May 2019
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£79.95 / $79.95The book provides an introduction to key concepts of multicriteria analysis, and a series of case studies that illustrate its application to a variety of environmental decision-making problems, ranging from protected area zoning to landfill siting, and from forest restoration to environmental impact assessment of tourism infrastructures.
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Sustainability Is the New Advantage
Leadership, Change, and the Future of Business
Peter McAteer
"Sustainability Is the New Advantage" is a practical blueprint for leaders who want to start, develop, and grow sustainable organizations. The book provides stories and practical examples of how to assess challenges, create demonstrations projects, and scale the capabilities needed for sustainable business transformation.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089468
April 2019
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£37.99 / $37.99“Sustainability Is the New Advantage” is a practical blueprint for leaders who want to start, develop, and grow sustainable organizations. The book provides stories and practical examples of how to assess challenges, create demonstrations projects, and scale the capabilities needed for sustainable business transformation.
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The Labyrinth of Sustainability
Green Business Lessons from Latin American Corporate Leaders
Edited by Daniel C. Esty
‘The Labyrinth of Sustainability’ explores the growth of corporate sustainability in Latin America, offering actionable insights to business leaders, policymakers, NGOs, academics and journalists through 12 case studies that examine the challenges and opportunities facing companies across the region as they integrate sustainability into their strategy and operations.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783089123
January 2019
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£115.00 / $115.00‘The Labyrinth of Sustainability’ explores the growth of corporate sustainability in Latin America, offering actionable insights to business leaders, policymakers, NGOs, academics and journalists through 12 case studies that examine the challenges and opportunities facing companies across the region as they integrate sustainability into their strategy and operations.
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Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts
Enabling Conditions for Negotiating Contingent Resolutions
Edited by Enamul Choudhury, Shafiqul Islam
foreword by Lawrence Susskind‘Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088690
December 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Complexity of Transboundary Water Conflicts’ seeks to understand transboundary water issues as complex systems with contingent conditions and possibilities. To address those conditions and leverage the possibilities it introduces the concept of enabling conditions as a pragmatic way to identify and act on the emergent possibilities to resolve transboundary water issues.
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Mesoscale Modelling for Meteorological and Air Pollution Applications
Edited by Ranjeet S. Sokhi, Alexander Baklanov, K. Heinke Schlünzen
‘Mesoscale Modelling for Meteorological and Air Pollution Applications’ combines fundamental and practical aspects of mesoscale air pollution and meteorological modelling, including applications and evaluation approaches.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088263
November 2018
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£200.00 / $200.00‘Mesoscale Modelling for Meteorological and Air Pollution Applications’ combines fundamental and practical aspects of mesoscale air pollution and meteorological modelling, including applications and evaluation approaches.
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Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts
Patrick Field, Tushar Kansal, Catherine Morris, Stacie Smith
Based on decades of experience in addressing energy-siting conflicts, the authors of ‘Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts’ provide details of a host of tools, strategies and principles for tackling them.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783088522
September 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00Based on decades of experience in addressing energy-siting conflicts, the authors of ‘Resolving Land and Energy Conflicts’ provide details of a host of tools, strategies and principles for tackling them.
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Managing Coral Reefs
An Ecological and Institutional Analysis of Ecosystem Services in Southeast Asia
Kelly Heber Dunning
‘Managing Coral Reefs’ compares reef management in Indonesia, which takes a decentralized approach, and in Malaysia, which takes a centralized approach.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087969
July 2018
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Managing Coral Reefs’ compares reef management in Indonesia, which takes a decentralized approach, and in Malaysia, which takes a centralized approach.
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Environmental Problem-Solving – A Video-Enhanced Self-Instructional e-Book from MIT
An Overview of the Tools of Environmental Policy-Making and Decision-Making
Edited by Lawrence Susskind, Bruno Verdini, Jessica Gordon, Yasmin Zaerpoor
Environmental Problem-Solving - A Video-Enhanced Self-Instructional e-Book from MIT’ offers an online, self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems. The e-book includes links to short videos showing the best MIT student responses to weekly assignments and exam questions.
Anthem Press
E-Book (EPUB)
9781783087020
December 2017
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£45.00 / $45.00Environmental Problem-Solving – A Video-Enhanced Self-Instructional e-Book from MIT’ offers an online, self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems. The e-book includes links to short videos showing the best MIT student responses to weekly assignments and exam questions.
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Worst-Case Economics
Extreme Events in Climate and Finance
Frank Ackerman
In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ‘Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783087075
October 2017
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£49.00 / $49.00In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public policy often focuses on average or likely outcomes, minimizing the danger of extreme events. ‘Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance’ explores the underlying causes and the remedies needed for the most serious climate and financial risks.
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The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes
Edited by Anna Grichting, Michele Zebich-Knos
A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, “The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes” addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086696
May 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines, “The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes” addresses social ecologies in the marginal spaces, liminal landscapes and territorial interfaces of border zones.
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Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment
Through the Eyes of Communities
Gwendolyn Smith, Elena P. Bastidas
‘Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment’ presents the idea that local communities can develop sustainably under changing environmental conditions when the discrepancy are sufficiently addressed between community views and the views of organizations responsible for implementing development initiatives. It introduces a theoretical framework and practical tools for analyzing such views.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086078
January 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Conflict and Sustainability in a Changing Environment’ presents the idea that local communities can develop sustainably under changing environmental conditions when the discrepancy are sufficiently addressed between community views and the views of organizations responsible for implementing development initiatives. It introduces a theoretical framework and practical tools for analyzing such views.
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China and Sustainable Development in Latin America
The Social and Environmental Dimension
Edited by Rebecca Ray, Kevin Gallagher, Andres López, Cynthia Sanborn
China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impacts of the China-led commodity boom in Latin America. It also highlights important areas of innovation where governments, communities and investors have worked together to harness the commodity boom for the benefit of the people and the planet.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086139
January 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00China and Sustainable Development in Latin America documents the social and environmental impacts of the China-led commodity boom in Latin America. It also highlights important areas of innovation where governments, communities and investors have worked together to harness the commodity boom for the benefit of the people and the planet.
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Water Diplomacy in Action
Contingent Approaches to Managing Complex Water Problems
Edited by Shafiqul Islam, Kaveh Madani
Rooted in the ideas of complexity science and mutual gains negotiation, this volume shows why traditional systems engineering approaches will not work for complex water problems and what emerging tools and techniques are needed to resolve them. This collection successfully synthesizes insights from theory and practice to advocate for contingent and adaptive management using a water diplomacy framework.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783084906
January 2017
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£140.00 / $140.00Rooted in the ideas of complexity science and mutual gains negotiation, this volume shows why traditional systems engineering approaches will not work for complex water problems and what emerging tools and techniques are needed to resolve them. This collection successfully synthesizes insights from theory and practice to advocate for contingent and adaptive management using a water diplomacy framework.
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Water Security in the Middle East
Essays in Scientific and Social Cooperation
Edited by Jean Axelrad Cahan
Water Security in the Middle East explores the extent and nature of water security problems in transboundary water systems in the Middle East. This collection of essays discusses the political and scientific contexts and the limitations of cooperation in water security.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783085668
January 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00Water Security in the Middle East explores the extent and nature of water security problems in transboundary water systems in the Middle East. This collection of essays discusses the political and scientific contexts and the limitations of cooperation in water security.
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Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change
Keeping Our Heads above Water
Joseph Hanlon, Manoj Roy, David Hulme
Severely threatened by climate change, Bangladesh is showing the world how to take an active role in adapting to this situation. Learning from its own experience in coping with floods and cyclones, Bangladesh is taking the lead in international climate change negotiations and attempting to persuade the industrialized world to curb emissions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783086320
November 2016
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£115.00 / $115.00Severely threatened by climate change, Bangladesh is showing the world how to take an active role in adapting to this situation. Learning from its own experience in coping with floods and cyclones, Bangladesh is taking the lead in international climate change negotiations and attempting to persuade the industrialized world to curb emissions.