Advances in Ecopolitics
ISSN: 2041-806X
Critical research in sustainability for your library
Series Editor: Liam Leonard
Advances in Ecopolitics includes a range of publications which each discuss a significant element in the environmental theory which now represent an important aspect of sustainable living.
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Editorial objectives
Advances in Ecopolitics provides insight into real alternatives to the current economic malaise, with an examination of key themes such as transition towns, sustainable utopias, co-operative farming, sustainability and activism, ecofeminism, green protectionism, intentional communities, environmental justice, environmental movements, green philosophies, politics and green economics. The series offers environmental alternatives which require our fullest consideration in light of the ongoing economic downturn which has accompanied the latest incarnation of unsustainable practices. The book series provides a forum for debate about a positive set of sustainable alternatives which set out an understanding that "another world is possible".
The series encourages well-written articles with the focus on interdisciplinary, international and comparative standpoints on contemporary management issues.
Key benefits
Advances in Ecopolitics is essential reading for all academics, researchers and practioners who are involved in the areas of environmentalism. The series:
• Acts as a forum for debate and the publication of papers which estabish understanding of environmentalism and sustainability.
• Provides a unique opportunity for the exchange of peer-reviewed knowledge on the widest extent of environmental and ecological issues.
• Allows for the establishment of working networks of environmental academics from across the globe.
Key audiences
Advances in Ecopolitics particularly encourages academics, researchers and practitioners from Europe, North
America and developing nations to share their experience, knowledge and practices with an international
audience. Contributors from across the globe focus on issues and research who which will affect and inform ecopolitical studies, are welcome to submit work for consideration in the series.
Volumes in this series: recently published
The Transition to Sustainable Living and Practice
Advances in Ecopolitics, Volume 4
Editors: Liam Leonard and John Barry
Publication date: 21 December 2009
ISBN: 9781849506410
Price: £59.95
The Advances in Ecopolitics book series presents a broad range of theoretical issues in environmentalism, sustainability and related
disciplines, and each volume provides the reader with an array of international contributors, who examine a common theme from the world of ecopolitics. Contributors to the Advances in Ecopolitics series present an analysis of the significant environmental issues which have
emerged in the era of climate change, sustainable development and green lifestyles, and each contribution explores these salient ecological concepts with an underlying vigour, motivated by
a sense that the planet we share with one another is fragile and finite. Moreover, as recent events have demonstrated, the socio-economic
and political models that were once considered to be sustainable have proved to be the opposite; so the exploration of green alternatives
presented in this series acquires a cruciality for all those who agree that the future is in our hands and that understanding the theoretical
concepts surrounding ecological thinking has gained additional significance for our changing planet.
Advances in Ecopolitics 4: Table of Contents:
The Transition to Sustainability: Transition Towns
and Sustainable Communities
John Barry and Stephen Quilley
Traditional Living Practices: Return to the
Villages
Mark Somma
Sustainable Economics: A New Financial
Architecture
Molly Scott Cato
Utopian Sustainability: Ecological Utopianism
Marius DeGeus
Environmental Exploitation: An Analysis and
Taxonomy
Gerald Nagtzaam
Ecological Activism: Sustainable Living, Activism
and Identity
Liam Leonard
Ecofeminism: Ecofeminism and the Public
Sphere
Chaone Mallory
Sustainable Planning: A Green Protectionism
Colin Hines
Sustainability and the Intentional Community:
Green Intentional Communities
Lucy Sargisson
Green Finance: A Green Philosophy of Money
Rupert Read
The Editor
Dr Liam Leonard is a Lecturer in Sociology at the Institute of Technology, Sligo in the Republic of Ireland. Having lectured in Sociology and Politics at the National University of Ireland, Galway, he has been at the Institute of Technology, Sligo since 2008. As the Founder and Senior Editor of the internationally renowned Ecopolitics Online Journal and author of several books on environmental issues, Dr Leonard has been to the fore in promoting environmental issues through academic publishing. Dr Leonard aims to continue this with the Emerald book series, Advances in Ecopolitics. Dr Leonard's current research aims to combine his expertise in environmental politics, environmental justice and environmental criminology in order to extend understanding of these issues.
If you are interested in contributing to the series, please contact Liam_Leonard@yahoo.co.uk
Volumes in this series: recently published
Advances in Ecopolitics, Volume 5:
Global Ecological Politics
Editors: Liam Leonard and John Barry
Publication date: 3 March 2010
ISBN: 9781849507486
Price: £59.95
This volume examines the range of environmental campaigns that are occurring across the planet. As world leaders attempt to tackle climate change, these papers present a number of case studies on global grassroots initiatives and activism in diverse areas such as
green economic alternatives. This extensive array of ecological participation demonstrates that viable green alternatives are
available in this current era of legitimation crisis across the formal political and economic sectors.
Advances in Ecopolitics, Volume 5: Global Ecological Politics is an important collection of articles for researchers, lecturers and academics in the socio-economic and political sector.
Table of Contents
Preface
Liam Leonard
Introduction: The Background to Global
Ecopolitics
Liam Leonard
The Green New Deal: Restoring Balance and
Stability to the Global Financial and Ecosystem
Anne Pettifor
The Dilemma of Justice: Foreign Oil
Multinationals and Human Rights Violation in the
Niger Delta of Nigeria
Victor Ojakorotu
Alternative Currencies as Localised Utopian
Practice
Peter North
Elusive Escapes: Everyday Life and Ecotopias
Jon Anderson
Towards a Model of Green Political Economy:
From Economic Growth and Ecological
Modernisation to Economic Security
John Barry
Green Politics and Anthropology
Michael O'Kane
Environmental Disputes in France
Darren McCauley
Ecotourism and Sustainability in the Tourism
Sector
James Hanrahan
The Politics of Waste, Consumption and
Sustainability in the Republic of Ireland
Honor Fagan
Volumes in this series: forthcoming
Advances in Ecopolitics, Volume 6: Sustainable Justice: Restoring the Community
Authors: Liam Leonard and Paula Kenny
Publication date: Winter 2010
This volume examines the processes and potential of the restorative justice movement in Ireland. The study will be divided into a number
of chapters reflecting the emergence of a movement dedicated to the promotion of restorative justice as a vehicle for a holistic form
of community-based justice. The book will go on to examine the main arguments made by advocates of the restorative justice movement,
which in the main holds that society should move away from punitiveness towards restitution and reparation, aimed at restoring the harm done to the victim and to the wider community, while also
restoring the offender or group with a grievance as full members of society.
The book will argue that the restorative justice movement has had a significant impact on justice and reconciliation processes across society, and that the movement has a role to play in future initiatives in the area of community-based justice, and in so doing addresses some aspects of the potentials that exist in the system of justice in a
truly sustainable manner.
Advances in Ecopolitics, Volume 7: The Incineration Issue: Waste, Politics and Policy
Forthcoming 2010-11
Advances in Ecopolitics, Volume 8: Environmental Philosophy
Forthcoming 2010-11