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  • Theme Cities: Solutions for Urban Problems

    Edited by Wayne K.D. Davies ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book reviews a series of new urban ideas or themes designed to help make cities more liveable, sustainable, safe and inclusive. Featuring examples drawn from cities all over the world, the various chapters provide critical assessments of each of the various approaches and their potential to improve urban life.New Urbanism: creating new areas based on a more humane scale with neighbourhood ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    by Bob Gibson, Selma Hassan, James Tansey ...
    Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Paradise Plundered

    Fiscal Crisis and Governance Failures in San Diego

    by Steven P. Erie, Vladimir Kogan, Scott A. MacKenzie ...
    The early 21st century has not been kind to California's reputation for good government. But the Golden State's governance flaws reflect worrisome national trends with origins in the 1970s and 1980s. Growing voter distrust with government, a demand for services but not taxes to pay for them, a sharp decline in enlightened leadership and effective civic watchdogs, and dysfunctional political ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • City Futures

    Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development

    by Doctor Edgar Pieterse ...
    Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Peri-Urban Interface

    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

    Edited by Duncan McGregor, David Simon, Donald Thompson ...
    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Canadian Perspectives on Immigration in Small Cities

    Edited by Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Julie L. Drolet ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines immigration to small cities throughout Canada. It explores the distinct challenges brought about by the influx of people to urban communities which typically have less than 100,000 residents.The essays are organized into four main sections: partnerships, resources, and capacities; identities, belonging, and social networks; health, politics, and diversity, and Francophone ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities

    Edited by R.B. Singh ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments in Asia and examined emerging resilience themes from the point of view of sustainability and public policy. The world’s urban population ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Post-Tsunami Hazard

    Reconstruction and Restoration

    Edited by V. Santiago-Fandiño, Y.A. Kontar, Y. Kaneda ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This monograph focuses on a variety of topics related to reconstruction and restoration in post-tsunami conditions. Aspects such as coastal engineering, early warning systems and technological approaches, urban planning and settlements relocation, socio-economic redevelopment and policy, coastal ecosystems and agricultural redevelopment as well as pollution assessment are included. The reader will ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • English Planning in Crisis

    10 Steps to a Sustainable Future

    by Hugh Ellis, Kate Henderson ...
    The English planning system is in crisis, argue the authors of this provocative new book. Reflecting on controversial new Government reforms and deregulation, Kate Henderson and Hugh Ellis provide a comprehensive analysis of these reforms, assessing the implications and significance for the future.They highlight why planning is so essential to quality of life and set out 10 evidence-based steps to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • City Imaging: Regeneration, Renewal and Decay

    Edited by Tara Brabazon ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines the paradoxes, challenges, potential and problems of urban living. It understands cities as they are, rather than as they may be marketed or branded. All cities have much in common, yet the differences are important. They form the basis of both imaginative policy development and productive experiences of urban life.The phrase ‘city imaging’ is often used in public discourse, but ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Urban Land

    Degradation - Investigation - Remediation

    by Dieter D. Genske ...
    Urban land is an environmental key topic considering the increasing urbani sation of our world. The amounting pressure on resources especially in the urban environment demand awareness across technical and political sectors and solid concepts for workable solutions. This book will address those people, who are key in coping with the challenges of sustainable urban land use management: ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Labor Forces and Landscape Management

    Japanese Case Studies

    Edited by Hiroyuki Shimizu, Chika Takatori, Nobuko Kawaguchi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The purpose of this book is to present a new proposal for landscape management labor accounts. Many matured countries are now confronting an aging society and a shrinking population. Land degradation in those countries is basically caused by a lack of local labor forces. It is very important, therefore, to consider and develop methods to provide appropriate labor forces for the sustainable ... Read more

    $143.09 USD