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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

  • Carbon Governance, Climate Change and Business Transformation

    Edited by Adam Bumpus, James Tansey, Blas Luis Pérez Henríquez, Chukwumerije Okereke ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    Transformation to a low carbon economy is a central tenet to any discussion on the solutions to the complex challenges of climate change and energy security. Despite advances in policy, carbon management and continuing development of clean technology, fundamental business transformation has not occurred because of multiple political, economic, social and organisational issues.Carbon Governance, ... Read more

    $79.99 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

    $60.99 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

    $65.99 USD

  • What Has Nature Ever Done for Us?

    How Money Really Does Grow On Trees

    by Sir Tony Juniper ...
    During recent years, environmental debate worldwide has been dominated by climate change, carbon emissions and eff orts to achieve low carbon economies. But a number of academic, technical, political, business and NGO initiatives indicate that there is a new wave of environmental attention focused on a wholly different set of subjects: namely that of natural capital, ecosystem services and ... Read more

    $9.59 USD

  • More Urban Less Poor

    An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

    by Goran Tannerfeldt, Per Ljung ...
    A world more urban...The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment....but less poorUnplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Greenwash Effect

    Corporate Deception, Celebrity Environmentalists, and What Big Business Isn?t Telling You about Their Green Products and Brands

    by Guy Pearse ...
    Going green is the new black for big business. But how real is the climate-friendly revolution that’s being advertised? Toyota would like us to think that Mother Nature drives a Prius, Ford wants us to Join the Green Revolution,” and McDonald’s has painted its golden arches green. Facebook has even friended” Greenpeace. All across the globe big corporations are spending big bucks trying to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Land Use Planning Made Plain

    by Hok-Lin Leung ...
    Series series Heritage
    Land Use Planning Made Plain is a practical guide for planners, administrators, politicians, developers, property owners, and the general public on how to make and implement land use decisions. It seeks to develop a set of coherent planning principles by drawing out useful and generally applicable elements from various systems and approaches.Hok-Lin Leung's focus is on planning at the city level, ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

  • The Climate Casino

    Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

    by William D. Nordhaus ...
    Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how. Bringing together all the important issues ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Smart Cities in the Mediterranean

    Coping with Sustainability Objectives in Small and Medium-sized Cities and Island Communities

    Edited by Anastasia Stratigea, Elias Kyriakides, Chrysses Nicolaides ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges faced by ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Potsdamer Platz

    The Reshaping of Berlin

    by Quazi Mahtab Zaman, Malgorzata Nowobilska ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks of restoring Potsdamer Platz from a state of disintegration to a condition worthy of a world-class ... Read more

    $49.49 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