The authors offer an innovative agenda for environmental and social renewal. Both books have attracted much attention, within the academic community as well as outside it. The Use and Abuse of Nature is a required reading for those interested in South Asian Politics, history and environmental studies.

This pioneering study examines the impacts of neoliberal global governance on forests and provides an exhaustive overview of international forest politics: intergovernmental panel on Forests, forest Certification, world banks forest strategy and other international forest-related processes.

This book presents conceptual and methodological issues related to the use of PDC to facilitate participation amongst stakeholders in a variety of natural resource management initiatives. Each chapter presents in-depth experiences from Asia and Africa to highlight different ways in which this process can be achieved. The book describes the major issues involved in applying PDC to natural resource management practices and research, discusses the challenges and the difficulties linked to such an approach and offers insights and lessons from research and experience in the field.

This Volume brings together scientists from the US and Europe to review the state-of-the-art in climate change science; all of them have extensive experience with climate research and international collaboration. Scientific jargon has been minimized for readers from different backgrounds.

This book acts as a unifying text for the people and plants series, integrating case studies and methodologies described in earlier volumes and pointing out, in a comprehensive accessible volume, the valuable lessons that have been learned.

This book is a modest effort to illuminate the shadows lurking around the ethics of balancing economic expedience and ecological prudence. Panos South Asia hopes that these essays would provoke constructive debates on perhaps the most vexing issue of our times.

This book explores the fundamentals of different renewable energy systems. The main focus is on technologies with high development potential such as solar thermal systems, photovoltaic and wind power.

This book is a core text for all students in environmental assessment, land use planning, environmental science, environmental management, development studies, geography, landscape design, law and engineering. It is also an essential reading for all governments and environmental regulators, academics, researchers, environmental and planning consultants worldwide who are involved in SEA research, practice and training.