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  • Justice for Resilient Development in Climate-Stressed Cities

    by Diana Reckien, Sirkku Juhola, Anika Nasra Haque, Heba Allah Khalil, Maria Fernanda Lemos, Shuaib Lwasa, Leila Niamir, Juan Camilo Osorio, Cristina Visconti, William Solecki, Minal Pathak, Martha Barata, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Maria Dombrov, Cynthia Rosenzweig ...
    Series series Elements in Climate Change and Cities
    Climate impacts and risk, within and across cities, are distributed highly unequally. Cities located in low latitudes are more vulnerable to climate risk and impacts than in high latitudes, due to the large proportion of informal settlements relative to the housing stock and more frequent extremes. According to EM-DAT, about 60% of environmental disasters in cities relate to riverine floods. ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Energy Efficiency in the Urban Environment

    by Heba Allah Essam E. Khalil, Essam E. Khalil ...
    Energy Efficiency in the Urban Environment is a study of energy crisis, urbanisation, and climate change, as well as a discussion of how to combat these global challenges. With a special focus on Egypt, this book addresses the macroscale of urbanism from the perspective of city dwellers' quality of life, and explores the microscale of buildings and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    by Robin Mearns; Andrew Norton; Edward Cameron ...
    Climate change is arguably the most profound challenge facing the international community in the 21st century. It is as much a challenge for poverty reduction, growth and development as it is a global environmental issue. It could undermine or reverse progress in reducing poverty and attaining the Millenium Development Goals, thereby unraveling many of the development gains of recent decades. It ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sustainable Urbanism

    Urban Design With Nature

    by Douglas Farr ...
    Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and ... Read more

    $77.00 USD

  • Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Margaret B. Holland, Yuta J. Masuda, Brian E. Robinson ...
    This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and development across all major regions of the globe. The first section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land tenure security and ... Read more

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  • Eco2 Cities: Ecological Cities As Economic Cities

    by Suzuki Hiroaki; Dastur Arish; Moffatt Sebastian; Yabuki Nanae; Maruyama Hinako ...
    The Eco2 Cities approach is a point of departure for cities that would like to reap the many benefits of ecological and economic sustainability. It provides an analytical and operational framework that offers strategic guidance to cities on sustainable and integrated urban development. At the same time case studies are used throughout the book to provide a matter-of-fact and ground-level ... Read more

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  • Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation

    by Christine Wamsler ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs. Consequently, city authorities and other urban actors face the challenge of integrating risk reduction and adaptation strategies into their work. However, related knowledge and expertise are still scarce and fragmented.Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • A Good Disruption

    Redefining Growth in the Twenty-First Century

    by Martin Stuchtey, Per-Anders Enkvist, Klaus Zumwinkel ...
    A Good Disruption describes how disruptive technology can be used to combat the economic challenges of our age and sets out an inspirational vision of a more effective and sustainable growth model.Disruptive technology is one of the defining economic trends of our age, transforming one major industry after another. But what is the true impact of such disruption on the world's economies, and does ... Read more

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  • 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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  • The Climate Resilient Organization

    Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Weather Extremes

    by Andrew Griffiths, Martina K. Linnenluecke ...
    Climate change has had a significant impact globally, predominantly for those vulnerable to its influence. The first book of its kind, The Climate Resilient Organization assesses the issues that have mounted for decision-makers in the field, while providing strategies to tackle them.With a particular focus on building climate-resilient pathways for private sector organizations, the expert authors ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Sustainability, Energy and Architecture

    Case Studies in Realizing Green Buildings

    by Ali Sayigh ...
    This unique volume offers insights from renowned experts in energy efficient building from the world over, providing a multi-faceted overview of the state-of-the-art in energy efficient architecture. It opens by defining what constitutes a sustainable building, suggesting bases for sorely needed benchmarks, then explains the most important techniques and tools available to engineers and architects ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

    Edited by Lena Dominelli ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Green social work espouses a holistic approach to all peoples and other living things – plants and animals, and the physical ecosystem; emphasises the relational nature of all its constituent parts; and redefines the duty to care for and about others as one that includes the duty to care for and about planet earth.By acknowledging the interdependency of all living things it allows for the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD