Recent years have witnessed the rapid proliferation and growth of local, national, and
transnational environmental nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), national …

Both livelihoods and diversity have become popular topics in development studies. The
livelihood concept offers a more complete picture of the complexities of making a living in …

An effective response to contemporary environmental problems demands an approach that
integrates political, economic and ecological issues. Third World Political Ecology provides …

This wide-ranging book, based on a report to the Food and Agriculture Organization in 1993,
is an attempt to bridge the gap between the enormous amount of empirical literature …

The concept of sustainability lies at the core of the challenge of environment and
development and the way governments, business and environmental groups respond to it …

This book presents recent estimates on the rate of change of major land classes.
Aggregated globally, multiple impacts of local land changes are shown to significantly affect …

Issues of equity and justice are high on international agendas dealing with the impacts of
global climate change. But what are the implications of climate change for equity and justice …

Recent research has examined the relationship between certain indicators of environmental
quality and income, concluding on the basis of econometric estimation that in some cases …

A key area of public policy in the last twenty years is the question of how, and how much, to
protect vthe environment. At the heart of this has been the heated debate over the nature of …

A new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes
affect global environmental outcomes. This comprehensive and accessible book fills the …