‘Disciples of Flora’
‘Disciples of Flora’ explores gardens as sites of meaning and identity where culture and nature meet. Spanning ancient Rome to the present, this collection of essays revises garden histories, revealing alternative landscapes and contesting memories.
“What is the Earthly Paradise?”
The Caribbean faces an ecological crisis born from natural disasters and historical degradation. This book provides a double insight, examining both the region’s environmental problems in practice and the cultural responses from writers like Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul.
This book contributes to a better understanding of the environment and climate change, assisting students in scoring higher marks in competitive exams. It covers environmental ecology, bio-diversity, natural hazards, disaster management, climate change, and other key topics.
Despite a demand for public spaces in Nairobi’s Central Business District, existing ones are under-utilized. This book analyzes their spatial evolution and sustainability, establishing factors for creating better-utilized spaces suitable for commerce, transit, and recreation.
Art, Ethics and Environment
Since the 1960s, new affinities between art and nature have blurred ancient distinctions. This collection of essays explores these changing moods in art and philosophy, discussing nature as an independent source of moral and aesthetic value.
Protected areas are our most effective tool for conserving biodiversity, but their success hinges on effective management. This book assesses national and natural parks, comparing data from 2005, 2009, and 2022 to offer crucial suggestions for our protected area systems.
Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature
A human-centric worldview must be dismantled. But what takes its place? This volume brings Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy into conversation with science, religion, indigenous traditions, and art to ignite new experiments in thought and action.
Biodiversity as a Source of Medicines
Renowned experts explore biodiversity’s potential for developing new medicines. Discover strategies for transforming scientific discoveries into marketable drugs, demonstrated with practical examples, case studies, and a look at biotechnology and regulatory status.
Civil Society and the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa
Experts explore the vital role of Civil Society Organizations in advancing Africa’s Sustainable Development Goals. Analysis covers CSO-state partnerships, donor impact, and the challenges of improving gender equality, education, and health outcomes for policymakers and scholars.
To truly understand climate change, we must first understand ourselves. This guide explores the crisis through a multi-faceted lens—social, psychological, and cultural—revealing the core beliefs and ideologies that shape our response.
Climate Crisis and Creation Care
Our constant consumption of resources has had a negative impact on the world—affecting everything from the weather to the social fabric of our society. This book explores how we arrived at such an unstable world and offers sustainable solutions to a global crisis.
Climate Crisis and Sustainable Creaturely Care
Global academics tackle the climate crisis through the lens of creation care. This volume reviews the damage to our environment and how our misuse of resources threatens all life, offering a global voice on our impact and presenting creation care as a way out of this crisis.
Coastal Management Revisited
An overview of the maturing field of coastal and ocean management. Written by leading experts, it reviews 25 years of research on issues from governance to climate change, drawing on global case studies to address urgent challenges and propose a new theory of coasts and oceans.
This book provides an in-depth understanding of combined power and water desalination plants. It covers the fundamentals, performance assessment, and economic evaluation of these fuel-efficient cogeneration facilities, intended for planners, engineers, researchers, and students.
Comparative Philosophy Today and Tomorrow
With a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, this collection of essays juxtaposes philosophical views on shared themes, stimulating fresh insight into contemporary issues from self-cultivation to global justice and the connections between East and West.
Culture and Media
Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations closes a critical gap by applying Indian ecocriticism and tinai theory to visual texts. This volume challenges dominant theories, giving centre stage to a perspective that will shape the future of world cinema.
This interdisciplinary book explores human ecology, revealing the social and cultural processes linking us to our environment. Using global case studies on climate change, it shows how degradation affects vulnerable communities and offers sustainable alternatives.
Demystifying Climate Risk Volume I
From a workshop on climate risk, seasoned leaders share their expertise with the next generation. This book explores environmental, health, and societal impacts—with a focus on Africa and education—leveraging lessons learned to inspire innovation and sustainable development.
Demystifying Climate Risk Volume II
Before their expertise is lost, seasoned leaders from the Montreal Protocol—the world’s most successful treaty for atmospheric protection—share their wisdom. This book leverages their lessons to inspire future innovations in climate science, industry, and sustainability.
History can teach leaders to solve complex environmental problems. Through case studies of forest management in Australia and the USA, this book reveals how non-linear thinking leads to success. While historical contexts change, the principles for tackling them do not.