Books in the Critical Concepts in the Environment series

Brings together the foundational scholarship in the subject of biodiversity and conservation. This collection features an interdisciplinary approach that provides an insight into the development of the subject from a predominantly science-based topic to an interdisciplinary concern, with an appreciation of the social obligations of conservation.

Brings together the research in ecological economics. This collection shows how research questioning the basis of mainstream economics combined with a concern for environmental degradation and limits to growth to produce ecological economics. It is suitable for scholars and students of the subject.

This work gathers classic, influential, and important papers in environmental philosophy from the late 1960s and early 1970s (when academic environmental philosophy began to coalesce) to the present. The volumes explore environmental ethics, epistemological, metaphysical, and comparative worldview questions raised by environmental concerns.

Environmental policy has been defined as 'a set of principles and intentions used to guide decision-making about human management of environmental capital and environmental services'. Although it draws on concepts from environmental philosophy and environmental politics, environmental policy is distinctive in its problem-solving orientation.

Modern environmentalism is now over fifty years old. The articles and accompanying comentaries in this five volume set provide insight into the critical areas of debate in the field's fifty-year development.

The science of climate change has experienced an extraordinary expansion in the period since the mid-1980s. This collection aims to provide a balanced selection of published papers on this subject.

Serious thinking about human rights and the environmen is a vibrant and dynamic area of study and research. This new 4 volume collection of canonical and cutting-edge articles, fully indexed and including a new introduction, is an essential research and pedagogic resource for student and scholar.