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This book examines the national approaches of carbon markets in Asia and industry perspectives of carbon market developments in ASEAN. It draws policy insights into developing a carbon market regime for those countries across ASEAN and Asia that intend to introduce a carbon market and also discusses ways of linking a country carbon market to a regional and global market. Apart from carbon market developments at national level, it elicits perspectives on implementing a carbon market for industries such as the textile, aviation and renewable energy industry and discusses challenges and opportunities of implementing a regional carbon market. This book offers a critical and comprehensive analysis of carbon market developments at national level in Asia and specific perspectives about carbon trading at industry level in ASEAN. By providing empirical findings of carbon markets in operation and policy insights, this book presents practical directions towards the implementation of carbon markets across ASEAN and Asia.

This book shows businesses and individuals how to take practical steps on sustainability.

As the urgency around climate change intensifies, businesses and individuals are grappling with the need for meaningful action with enlightened self-interest.

The book breaks down key sustainability concepts and connects them to real-world practice through curated case studies, interviews, vignettes and diagnostic tools. It encourages reflection, action and 'can do' thinking, showing readers how to build a cohesive and well-governed sustainability plan.

This accessible resource equips professionals, students and advocates with the tools they need to make informed decisions and drive change in their own contexts.

As the push to develop the interior reaches of the United States surged in the nineteenth century, a few visionary citizens advocated for identifying and protecting lands with superior scenery, abundant wildlife, and unique resources. Today, almost one-third of the nation's land base constitutes the American Commons, a designation that refers to our shared national resources, managed under a doctrine of public trust and manifest in the ideal of democratic governance.

Founding the American Commons traces the early history of public lands using primary source documents, allowing the actors themselves to share their opinions and motivations regarding the establishment of a "higher use" of environmental resources and the protection of our nation's natural and cultural heritage. Included are original documents from environmental pioneers including John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Chief Joseph, and Rachel Carson, as well as lesser-known individuals like Israel Ward Raymond, Franklin Hough, and Rosalie Edge. The book also includes documents representing diverse groups that have contributed to, or in some cases, been significantly impacted by the American Commons, including women, African Americans, and Indigenous peoples. Founding the American Commons guides readers through this collection of documents and key actors, providing historical context for the extraordinary events that shaped what environmental historian Alfred Runte referred to as "landscape democracy."

Addressing the world's major environmental threats - from climate change to species loss and the destruction of ecosystems - is not only an ecological or economic matter. It is also a profoundly political one. States, international organizations, citizens and businesses across the Global North and South have a stake. How do economic and political processes impact environmental progress? And how do we bring about a green transformation that is both economically sound and fair?

Robert Falkner provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the political and economic forces shaping global efforts to green the economy. Drawing on insights from political economy, international relations and environmental and ecological economics, he introduces readers to the key concepts, actors and institutions in environmental politics at the national and international levels. And he shows how transnational economic flows - across energy, trade, investment and finance - and their global governance influence environmental efforts. This balanced yet critical account of current debates provides a pathway to an environmentally sustainable global economy.

Green Political Economy offers an astute introduction to the global green transformation for students of political science, international relations, environmental studies, development studies and political economy.

This timely book explores the rocky trajectory of US environmental history and policy from pre-European settlement to the present. It includes underreported aspects of early history, and the first in-depth synthesis of the framing and outcomes of the groundbreaking environmental laws of the 1970s.

While effective against pollution, the new regulatory system led to economic decline, antagonism in the business community and political division. The book traces and compares US policies with more successful policies adopted by the EU in the 1990s. With an afterword reviewing the dramatic events of the second Trump administration, the book suggests future pathways for reducing polarization and promoting reform.

Community-Based Waste Management: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa reframes how waste is understood and governed in contexts of uneven infrastructure, limited state capacity, and deep socio-economic inequality. Bringing together contributions from across the region, the book argues that community-based waste management (CBWM) is not simply a participatory add-on to formal systems, but a structurally necessary mode of service provision that emerges where municipal services are partial, exclusionary, or absent. Rather than presenting community engagement as inherently positive, the volume critically examines the diverse forms CBWM takes in practice, from household-level coping strategies and informal service provision to organized collective action and hybrid governance arrangements. It foregrounds the everyday labor through which waste is managed, with particular attention to informal workers, community organizations, and residents who sustain waste systems under constrained conditions. The book makes a conceptual contribution by positioning CBWM as a site of theory-building, drawing on insights from discard studies to interrogate how waste, value, and responsibility are produced and distributed. Across the chapters, contributors explore how CBWM can both reproduce and challenge existing inequalities, raising important questions about recognition, resourcing, and the role of the state. Bridging empirical depth with theoretical innovation, this volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working on waste governance, urban and rural service delivery, and environmental justice, particularly in African and other Global South contexts.

This book offers a comprehensive and forward?looking examination of how global warming is reshaping the world’s river deltas, among the most vulnerable yet vital landscapes on Earth. It provides critical insights into the environmental, social, and political challenges faced by deltaic regions as intensifying climate pressures converge on low?lying coastal areas.

The volume emphasizes the central importance of delta resilience for global climate adaptation and human security, particularly in the context of rising sea levels, extreme weather events, altered hydrological cycles, accelerated land loss, saltwater intrusion, biodiversity decline, and disruptions to food systems.

It covers key thematic areas including deltaic geomorphology, sea?level rise, salinization, land subsidence, food security, climate?induced migration, urban infrastructure risk, and the role of traditional knowledge in adaptation. In?depth case studies from major delta systems, such as the Mekong, Nile, Ganges?Brahmaputra, and Mississippi, highlight both shared vulnerabilities and region?specific dynamics.?It also examines governance challenges, financing mechanisms, and international cooperation in managing transboundary river systems, while assessing nature?based solutions, managed retreat, and emerging adaptation technologies. By bringing together expert perspectives and evidence?based research, it fills critical knowledge gaps and offers a clear roadmap for policy and future action.

The volume serves both as a scholarly contribution and a practical guide for policymakers, planners, environmental NGOs, climate professionals, and graduate students concerned with the future of deltaic environments under climate change.

This book examines the pressing issue of biodiversity decline and its far-reaching implications for sustainable development. It brings together leading experts to examine the causes, impacts, and solutions to one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time.

Across 38 chapters, the book explores key drivers of biodiversity loss, including deforestation, climate change, land-use change, pollution, habitat degradation, and unsustainable resource use. It presents global case studies, innovative technologies, ecosystem restoration strategies, and community-based conservation approaches that support sustainable development.

Covering diverse ecosystems and regions, the volume highlights how biodiversity loss affects climate resilience, food security, ecosystem services, livelihoods, and environmental governance. Combining scientific evidence with practical solutions, this book serves as both a warning and a roadmap for action.

An essential resource for researchers, policymakers, practitioners, educators, and all who are committed to safeguarding life on Earth and building a sustainable future.

This book offers a practical guide to building economic resilience and transformation, with a focus on the Global South. It analyses how to foster robust economies amid fiscal challenges, regional shocks, and dynamic macroeconomic conditions. Covering a wide spectrum of issues, from food sovereignty and development financing to public infrastructure and human capital, the book presents a holistic framework for achieving sustainable growth. By integrating theoretical ideas with real-world case studies, it creates a vital resource for researchers and policymakers in development, public, and environmental economics, as they navigate today's turbulent global landscape.

In 2010, the United Nations declared access to clean drinking water a human right. Yet billions still face scarcity while water is wasted, polluted, and undervalued. Water on Wall Street confronts this paradox with clarity and urgency.

Arguing that water must be treated as both a right and a responsibility - two sides of the same coin that will shape our future - researchers Marcel Boyer and Maria Kouyoumijian explore how population growth, economic expansion, and climate pressures heighten global demand. They demonstrate that socially responsible management requires new tools: efficient pricing, regulated markets, and transparent institutions that promote conservation while ensuring equity.

Spanning history, policy, economics, law, and technology, this book speaks to readers who want to understand water in all its dimensions. Accessible yet rigorous, it offers a bold, solution-driven framework showing how protecting humanity's most vital resource demands both ethical commitment and economic ingenuity.

This book provides a comprehensive picture of sustainable development in Northeast India, focusing on historical context, traditional knowledge systems, and contemporary challenges. As a region characterized by unique environmental and geographical peculiarities, Northeast India presents both opportunities and constraints in achieving sustainable growth. This book presents a multidimensional exploration of sustainable development in Northeast India, bridging indigenous traditions with contemporary challenges. It begins with the foundations of sustainability, highlighting theoretical perspectives, traditional agricultural practices, sacred groves, and community philosophies that shape resilience across the region.

The second section delves into environmental, economic, and social dimensions, examining climate change impacts, ecosystem services, livelihood diversification, skill development, vocational education, and women’s empowerment. Case studies on tea plantation workers, MGNREGA, and cross-border trade illustrate how sustainability intersects with equity, employment, and regional policy.

The final section expands to education, health, and inclusive development, addressing disparities in healthcare, educational vulnerability during the pandemic, poverty among the self-employed, and pathways through financial inclusion and access to credit. Together, these chapters provide a holistic view of the region’s progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals. By engaging with sustainability through a regional lens, this book fosters transparency and public awareness, promotes innovation and adaptation, ensures inclusivity and equity, and contributes valuable insights to global knowledge frameworks.

This collection provides a holistic understanding of sustainable development in Northeast India, addressing key challenges and proposing practical solutions. Beyond merely describing sustainability challenges, this book offers policy-driven solutions that can inform decision-making at the regional and national levels. Designed to be an invaluable resource for policymakers, researchers, academics, and students, it aims to shape discourse on sustainable development, environmental conservation, and socio-economic advancement in the region.

The second edition of Environment and Society: Concepts for a Just Transformation delivers a major, timely update to one of the field’s most respected concept?driven environmental social science texts. Fully revised and significantly re-oriented to highlight concepts informing social projects in just transformation, this edition reshapes the book around an enhanced set of contemporary concepts?adding new chapters, removing outdated material, and thoroughly updating those retained?to reflect the dramatic shifts in how scholars, policymakers, and communities understand society?environment relations. With contributions from an even more globally diverse group of authors, the book now brings stronger representation from the Global South and a wider array of disciplinary perspectives.

The book examines whether today’s dominant ideas and conceptual frameworks meaningfully support a “Just Transformation” in the face of deepening environmental and climatological crises. Across eleven concept?focused chapters?ranging from justice, colonialism, and intersectionality to futures, metabolism, collective action, commons, footprints, and more?contributors offer accessible syntheses, illustrative examples, and end?of?chapter discussion topics designed for classroom use.

This edition is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students across environmental studies, environmental sociology, geography, sustainability, and allied social sciences, as well as scholars seeking a clear, comparative resource on conceptual trends. It will also appeal to practitioners, NGO staff, and policy professionals who require a deeper understanding of the conceptual tools shaping environmental thinking today.

UNDERSTANDING ENERGY THROUGH SOCIAL, TECHNICAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL LENSES

Energy, Society, and Environment: A Critical Introduction explores the complex relationships between energy systems and the societies and environments they shape. Dustin Mulvaney provides a concise yet wide-ranging overview of energy production, distribution, and consumption, examining not only the physical and technical aspects but also the political, cultural, and ethical forces that underpin them. By situating energy within its broader social contexts, Mulvaney provides the tools to analyze the challenges of building more sustainable and just energy futures.

This accessible and engaging textbook guides students from the physical principles and sources of energy through to the infrastructures, policies, and social implications that define today’s global energy challenges. Case studies spanning fossil fuels, renewable technologies, and electricity grids are enriched by interdisciplinary perspectives from geography, sociology, science and technology studies, and environmental ethics. Contemporary issues?including the Strait of Hormuz closure, supply chain disruptions, and geopolitical conflicts?are woven throughout to illustrate how energy is at the heart of global change.

Energy, Society, and Environment: A Critical Introduction is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in geography, environmental studies, sociology, and energy studies programs. It is also an essential reference for researchers, policymakers, and professionals engaged in sustainability, environmental justice, and energy planning.

The gripping story of the trailblazing conservationists who shaped the wilderness of the American West into legend

Driven by richly drawn characters and framed by cinematic showdowns in epic landscapes, Saving the Wild Country vividly combines narrative history, biography, cultural criticism, and outdoor writing to show how postwar wildland advocacy-and the Western myth-shaped American attitudes toward wilderness in a time of ferocious development and change.

In the boom years following World War II, a small but vital group of artists, writers, and advocates mobilized the visual and therapeutic power of the wilderness to combat the dizzying development of the American West.

With cinematic flair, Ben A. Minteer explores the motives and achievements of photographer Ansel Adams, conservationist David Brower, curator and writer Nancy Newhall, and authors Wallace Stegner and Edward Abbey, an ensemble united by a fierce commitment to preserving the American wildlands. Through a burst of creative projects, they struggled to control the narrative of development in the American West and offered an alternative vision to the culturally corrosive impacts of mid-twentieth-century industrialism and consumerism. But as the five visionaries fought the dams, bulldozers, and highways that slashed across the wild country, they also fought among themselves-and with their internal doubts and regrets-in a land where personality, myth, and activism collided.

In this volume, illustrated with compelling photographs, portraits, and iconic landscapes, Minteer

* investigates the intertwined truths and myths of the West that still permeate American culture
* provides nuance to the backgrounds and motivations of Adams, Stegner, Brower, Newhall, and Abbey
* sheds light on the perpetual battle against the negative cultural impacts of industrialism and consumerism
* engages with several influential western films, including The Searchers, Ride the High Country, Lonely Are the Brave, The Wild Bunch, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

This long-overdue assessment by one of the top thinkers in environmental history and ethics shows why these postwar defenders of wilderness remain relevant for readers today.

This book examines sustainability from an ethnoeconomics perspective, offering an equitable and durable pathway for economic development in the climate?biodiversity era. By recognising the rationalities, ecological knowledge, and institutional practices embedded within indigenous and local communities, it presents economic models built around sustainable practice, land stewardship, biodiversity, reciprocity, and social resilience rather than growth and extraction alone. In contrast to conventional approaches to development economics, ethnoeconomics defines economic activity as a culturally mediated relationship between human communities and their environments.

The book highlights the importance of culturally diverse knowledge traditions for global institutions, ecological renewal, and the future of the world economy. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and policymakers concerned with environmental economics, development studies, sustainability transitions, economic anthropology, biodiversity governance, and the role of indigenous and local knowledge in shaping more resilient and equitable forms of development.

Discover how AI-powered solutions can transform global governance and legal systems with this essential guide to leveraging emerging technologies for peace, justice, and stronger institutional frameworks.

In a world rife with challenges like corruption, cybercrime, legal inefficiencies, human rights violations, and weak institutional frameworks, AI-powered solutions present an unprecedented opportunity to improve transparency, legal systems, and security altogether. This book explores the role of artificial intelligence as a transformative agent of peace, justice, and effective institutions. Drawing on literature from international relations, conflict studies, political science and machine learning, this book considers relationships between artificial intelligence and Sustainable Development Goal 16, focusing on how emerging technologies can support governance, law enforcement, conflict resolution, and democratic practice. Positioning itself between technological innovation and policy, this book provides actionable perspectives to leverage AI responsibly in building stronger institutions and crafting a just, peaceful society.

Readers will find the volume:

• Draws from academics, policymakers, AI researchers, and legal experts to present cutting-edge research, case studies, and policy recommendations on the applications of AI for governance;
• Explores in detail how artificial intelligence can be used to fight misinformation, improve electoral integrity, and cope with global security threats;
• Structured with thematic sections that provide a multi-disciplinary view of the effects of AI on peace, justice, and the resilience of institutions.

Audience

Government officials, international organizations, technology developers, legal practitioners, and scholars dealing with AI holistically for sustainable governance.

How to Build a River, through photographs and incisive, contextualizing essays, ventures behind the construction hoardings of the Port Lands Flood Protection project to reveal the transformation of hundreds of acres of polluted brownfields into a new public park, a new river and a site for future housing.

Awarded to photographers Vid Ingelevics and Ryan Walker in 2019, the commission resulted in an illuminating series of photographs that explore key themes and historical contexts of this legacy-building endeavour. Central to this project was the construction of a new wider, naturalized mouth for the Don River as well as a new public park on this former brownfield site. Additionally, the photographs explore the necessary demolition of many existing industrial buildings, the involvement of First Nations, the excavation of the new river valley and the complex bio-engineering techniques involved, archeological discoveries during the excavation, the re-naturalization of the site and, most recently, the opening of a significant section of Biidaasige Park to the public in July 2025.

The photographs and accompanying essays invite readers to look closely at how cities can be reimagined in response to a changing climate. They reveal the social, historical, and environmental stories behind this landmark transformation of Toronto’s waterfront and contemplate the importance of documenting publicly funded projects of this scale.