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  • Energy-efficient Buildings in the Mediterranean: Challenges, Strategies, and Innovations

    Edited by Ioannis Vardopoulos, Constantinos Vassiliades ...
    Series series River Publishers Series in Energy Sustainability and Efficiency
    This volume reimagines the built environment not as a passive backdrop, but as a contested site where architecture, engineering, climate extremes, energy imperatives, and socio-economic inequalities converge. Sustainability is shown not as a universal mandate, but as a condition continually negotiated across uneven terrains of policy, design, and everyday inhabitation.Through contributions from ... Read more

    $140.99 USD

  • Homage (and Criticism) to the Mediterranean City

    Regional Sustainability and Economic Resilience

    by Ioannis Vardopoulos, Francisco Escrivà Saneugenio, Adele Sateriano, Luca Salvati ...
    Series series River Publishers Series in Social, Urban, Economic and Environmental Sustainability
    Departing from conventional narratives centered on economic stagnation and social secularism, this book offers a fresh perspective on Mediterranean urbanities. It posits their correlation with housing and welfare regimes, societal transformations, local governance structures, and deficiencies in spatial planning. The analysis within delves into the neglected potential for mitigating regional ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

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    A Vocabulary for a New Era

    Edited by Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria, Giorgos Kallis ...
    Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Disasters and History

    The Vulnerability and Resilience of Past Societies

    by Bas van Bavel, Daniel R. Curtis, Jessica Dijkman, Matthew Hannaford, Maïka de Keyzer, Eline van Onacker, Tim Soens ...
    Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. They reveal the ways in which the consequences and outcomes of these ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Ecological Economics

    Nature and Society

    Edited by Clive L. Spash ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Since becoming formally established with an international academic society in the late 1980s, ecological economics has advanced understanding of the interactions between social and biophysical reality. It initially combined questioning of the basis of mainstream economics with a concern for environmental degradation and limits to growth, but has now advanced well beyond critique into theoretical, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Strengthening European Climate Policy

    Governance Recommendations from Innovative Interdisciplinary Collaborations

    Edited by Ester Galende Sánchez, Alevgul H. Sorman, Violeta Cabello, Sara Heidenreich, Christian A. Klöckner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open-access book foregrounds 10 novel collaborations between the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines, for strengthening European climate policy.Part of a three-volume collection covering climate, energy, and mobility policy. ... Read more

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  • A Sociology of Humankind

    How We Are Formed by Culture, Cooperation, and Conflict

    by Jeroen Bruggeman ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Based upon the interdependencies of human beings as we cooperate and conflict with each other, how we share information, and how culture evolves, this book proposes a sociology of humanity covering three hundred millennia. Grounded in empirical findings from archaeology, history, lab experiments, and field studies – supplemented for precision with computational network models of cultural evolution ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Sustainability Science

    by Bert J. M. de Vries ...
    The fully updated second edition of this innovative textbook provides a system analysis approach to sustainability for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. To an extent unparalleled in other textbooks, the latest scientific data and insights are integrated into a broad and deep transdisciplinary framework. Readers are encouraged to explore and engage with sustainability issues through the ... Read more

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  • Slow Tourism, Food and Cities

    Pace and the Search for the "Good Life"

    Edited by Michael Clancy ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism
    Slow Food began in the late 1980s as a response to the spread of fast food establishments and as a larger statement against globalization and the perceived deterioration of modern life. Since then, slow practices have permeated into other areas, including cities and territories and travel and tourism.This book provides an in-depth examination of slow food, tourism and cities, demonstrating how ... Read more

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  • Inclusive Cities and Global Urban Transformation

    Infrastructures, Intersectionalities, and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Ajay Bailey, Kei Otsuki ...
    This open access book addresses the problem of global urban development that excludes various groups of people from the benefits of urban growth and sustainable development. Using the intersectionality and agency of urban dwellers and citizens, it outlines possibilities of responsive urban governance that builds on principles of the inclusive city. The book's first section presents various cases ... Read more

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  • Urbanization in Europe

    Past Developments and Pathways to a Sustainable Future

    by David Evers, Ivana Katurić, Ries van der Wouden ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book comes at an opportune time, with ‘land take’ high on the EU policy agenda. It shows how over one million hectares in Europe became urbanized between 2000 and 2018, over eight times that which changed back to agriculture or nature. This book seeks to explain this development and offer suggestions on how to control it, drawing on the ESPON Sustainable Urbanization and land-use ... Read more

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  • Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

    Edited by Binti Singh, Tania Berger, Manoj Parmar ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration, livelihood, and public health challenges result from inadequacies in the hard city—urban assets, such as land, infrastructure, and housing, and asserts that these challenges and escalating ... Read more

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