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  • Learning from COVID-19 for Climate-Ready Urban Transformation

    by Darshini Mahadevia, Gian C. Delgado-Ramos, Janice Barnes, Joan Fitzgerald, Miho Kamei, Kevin Lanza, William Solecki, Minal Pathak, Martha Barata, Aliyu Salisu Barau, Maria Dombrov, Cynthia Rosenzweig ...
    Series series Elements in Climate Change and Cities
    Cities have suffered from three years of the COVID-19 pandemic and are increasingly experiencing exacerbated heatwaves, floods, and droughts due to climate change. Going forward, cities need to address both climate and public health crises effectively while reducing poverty and inequity, often in the context of economic pressure and declining levels of trust in government. The COVID-19 pandemic ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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    Edited by Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Read more

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  • Toward the Healthy City

    People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning

    by Jason Corburn ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.In distressed urban neighborhoods where residential segregation concentrates poverty, liquor stores outnumber supermarkets, toxic sites are next to playgrounds, and more money is spent on prisons than schools, residents also suffer disproportionately from disease ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Commercial Determinants of Health

    Edited by Nason Maani, Mark Petticrew, Sandro Galea ...
    An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us—by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the commercial determinants of health, the private sector activities which influence our physical and social environments, our available evidence and solutions ... Read more

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  • Partnerships for Sustainability in Contemporary Global Governance

    Pathways to Effectiveness

    Edited by Liliana B. Andonova, Moira V. Faul, Dario Piselli ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Environmental Policy and Politics
    Partnerships for Sustainability in Contemporary Global Governance investigates the goals, ideals, and realities of sustainability partnerships and offers a theoretical framework to help disentangle the multiple and interrelated pathways that shape their effectiveness.Partnerships are ubiquitous in research and policy discussions about sustainability and are important governance instruments for the ... 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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  • Ageing and Urban Planning

    Edited by Matthias Drilling, Pamela Suero, Hind Al-Shoubaki, Fabian Neuhaus ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Ageing and Urban Planning provides a critical analysis of urban planning in the face of demographic change. It emphasises the importance of international approaches and practices to address age-friendly planning. This process requires collaboration between professionals and the community, going beyond mere functionality to connect the micro and macro scales at the city, region, nation, and the ... Read more

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  • The Drug Company Next Door

    Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico

    by Alexa S. Dietrich ...
    "This fascinating and most timely criticalmedical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas ofcontemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature andsignificant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on humansocial life everywhere, and the contribution of corporations to the fast-paceddegradation of our life support system, planet Earth. . . . ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Gender Equity in STEM in Higher Education

    International Perspectives on Policy, Institutional Culture, and Individual Choice

    Edited by Hyun Kyoung Ro, Frank Fernandez, Elizabeth Ramon ...
    Series series Routledge Research in STEM Education
    This timely volume brings together a range of international scholars to analyse cultural, political, and individual factors which contribute to the continued global issue of female underrepresentation in STEM study and careers.Offering a comparative approach to examining gender equity in STEM fields across countries including the UK, Germany, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Africa, and ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance

    Edited by Ana Moragues-Faus, Jill K. Clark, Jane Battersby, Anna Davies ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance is the first collection to reflect on and compile the currently dispersed histories, concepts and practices involved in the increasingly popular field of urban food governance.Unpacking the power of urban food governance and its capacity to affect lives through the transformation of cities and the global food system, the Handbook is structured into ... Read more

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  • Gender Equality, Climate Action, and Technological Innovation for Sustainable Development in Africa

    by Ogechi Adeola, Olaniyi Evans, Innocent Ngare ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the intersection of gender and climate change, suggests ways in which innovative technologies can accelerate climate relief actions, and offers strategies for integrating climate change initiatives into national policies and planning. By examining the devastating consequences of climate change on women and girls throughout the continent, the authors pose a crucial ... Read more

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  • NEETs in European rural areas

    Individual features, support systems and policy measures

    Edited by Francisco Simões, Emre Erdogan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book constitutes a transnational and multidisciplinary inquiry of the most pressing challenges faced by young people Not in Employment, nor in Education or Training (NEET) in rural areas across Europe. . Rural NEETs are one of the most invisible segments of the youth population, in spite of the fact that the percentage of NEETs is higher in the countryside, compared to those in ... Read more

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