Product Description: In the last two decades, environmental threats and the challenge of sustainability have moved to the very center of political, business and, increasingly, personal agendas.The Earthscan Library Collection has been created to bring back into print the seminal texts in sustainability from the past 25 years...read more

Product Description: The Health and Population set contains key texts by world renowned experts on global population and health as it links to development and environmental challenges. In the last two decades, environmental threats and the challenge of sustainability have moved to the very centre of political, business and, increasingly, personal agendas...read more

Product Description: Earthscan's pre-eminent position at the forefront of sustainability publishing is represented in this twenty volume set. Bringing together the key original writings on sustainable development, the volumes include a variety of works authored by development organizations like the UNEP, WWF and IUCN...read more

Product Description: This essential multivolume collection by leading authors in Aid and Development covers the main themes in the subject from child slavery to the greening of aid, This is an indispensible collection for researchers, academics and policy professionals addressing all aspects of aid and development...read more

Product Description: The Natural Resource Management Set consists of key texts in the field written by prestigious authors from backgrounds as diverse as forestry, economics, sociology and politics that comprehensively illuminates all aspects of the development of natural resource management...read more

Product Description: Capturing the economic value of natural resources has become an integral part of their successful management and conservation. The Environmental and Resource Economics Set contains seminal texts covering a range of ecosystems and valuation methods...read more

Product Description: Globalization and increasing international trade are becoming a fact of life, bringing increasing tensions and conflicts over their impacts on societies, livelihoods and the environment. The impacts are felt in industrialized countries but are often most harsh in developing economies...read more

Product Description: Such a huge number of books, journals and papers have been devoted to defining, assessing and implementing 'sustainable development' that students and other readers face information overload. Earthscan alone has published hundreds of essays and books on the subject...read more

Product Description: This volume explores 25 case studies of fiscal measures that have been adopted successfully by governments in North America and Europe to reduce environmental degradation. Each study lays out the implementation issues and problems faced, and compares the effectiveness of the measure against its expectations...read more

Product Description: Public concern for the conservation of natural resources and a general awareness of the environmental consequences of waste disposal is reflected in current legislation aimed at reducing waste. Recycling is commonly cited as one of the preferred methods of waste reduction and this book summarizes a recent study of paper recycling in Europe, which investigated the entire production and disposal process using a life-cycle methodology...read more