Creating a Climate for Change is a unique collection of ideas examining the challenges associated with communicating climate change in order to facilitate societal response. It offers well-founded, practical suggestion on how to communicate climate change, and how to approach related social change more effectively.

This is a study of technology as self-help endeavour in the home and the provisioning of the household; as work in the rural workshop that supplies ports or iron tools for the village; and as techniques mastered in the urban workshop, feasible not in simple tribal villages but when new production institutions emerge with the development of a political hierarchy.

In this book, leading international specialists and experts from diverse disciplines, backgrounds, and expertise analyse the current status and future application potential of the sustainable development paradigm to the water sector in terms of improving existing processes and practices.

This book describes a revolutionary methodology for enhancing technological innovation called TRIZ, increasingly adopted by leading corporations around the world to enhance their competitive position

This book is a synthesis of a series of studies carried out in the major towns of Kerala in recent years and details the paradigm shift in waste management. The studies involved experiments in alternative waste management methods using pilot projects; and they proved the viability of a resource recovery oriented approach.

Power to the People is his fiercely independent and irresistibly entertaining book at the economic, political and technological forces that are reshaping the world’s management of energy resources.

In Rethinking Water Management, a new generation of water experts from around the world examine the critical challenges confronting the water profession, including rainwater and groundwater management, recycling and reuse, water rights, Trans boundary access to water and financing of water.

Addresses the full range of barriers and complexities, including governance structures, the relationship between ‘experts’ and the public, political feasibility, tax measures, perceptions of ‘fairness’ and self-interest, and the importance of environmental values.