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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bas van vliet”
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  • Urban Waste and Sanitation Services for Sustainable Development

    Harnessing Social and Technical Diversity in East Africa

    Edited by Bas van Vliet, Joost van Buuren, Shaaban Mgana ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    Urban sanitation and solid waste sectors are under significant pressure in East Africa due to the lack of competent institutional capacity and the growth of the region’s urban population. This book presents and applies an original analytical approach to assess the existing socio-technical mixtures of waste and sanitation systems and to ensure wider access, increase flexibility and ecological ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Social Perspectives on the Sanitation Challenge

    Edited by Bas van Vliet, Gert Spaargaren, Peter Oosterveer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume is the result of years of commitment with world-wide sanitation challenges from various research networks linking the editors and authors of this volume to many other sanitation scholars and professionals. Major contributions to this volume are derived from the work done in the PROVIDE project (working on sustainable urban infrastructures in cities of the Lake Victoria Basin, East ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Infrastructures of Consumption

    Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries

    by Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells, Bas Van Vliet ...
    For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations have challenged this model. This book examines the ongoing environmental restructuring of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Small Change

    About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

    by Nabeel Hamdi ...
    What exactly is 'small change'?Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects.This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, small-scale actions. Written by Nabeel Hamdi, the guru of urban ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today

    by John Thackara ...
    A visionary yet practical guide to building a more sustainable future, by one of the most important voices in environmentally aware designAre there practical solutions to the many global challenges—climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare—that threaten our way of life? Author John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs. In this clear-eyed ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • The Art of City Making

    by Charles Landry ...
    City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic, ten-point plan, but strong principles can help send good city-making on its way. The vision for 21st century cities must be to be the most imaginative cities for the world rather than in the world. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Eco-Innovation and the Development of Business Models

    Lessons from Experience and New Frontiers in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Susana Garrido Azevedo, Marcus Brandenburg, Helena Carvalho, Virgílio Cruz-Machado ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Environmental challenges such as pollution, climate change, water and natural resources depletion and dwindling bio-diversity are true threats to the survival of our civilization, forcing us to learn how to act now. Fortunately this is exactly what this book does: presenting real life cases, along with theory, methodologies and tools demonstrating how eco-innovation can support sustainable ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning

    An International Evaluation

    by Michael Short, Mark Baker, Jeremy Carter, Stephen Jay, Carys Jones ...
    'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective and why. It provides invaluable insights for practitioners and researchers in this rapidy ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • America the Possible

    Manifesto for a New Economy

    by James Gustave Speth ...
    In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt today, and envisions what he calls America the Possible, an attractive and plausible future that we ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning

    Edited by Ayda Eraydin, Tuna Taşan-Kok ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Governing Sustainable Cities

    by Bob Evans, Marko Joas, Susan Sundback, Kate Theobald ...
    Urban governance and sustainability are rapidly becoming key issues around the world. Currently three billion people - half the population of the planet - live in cities, and by 2050 a full two-thirds of the world's population will be housed in ever larger and increasingly densely populated urban areas. The economic, social and environmental challenges posed by urbanization on such a large scale ... Read more

    $65.99 USD