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“marcus hedblom”

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  • Ecology and Conservation of Birds in Urban Environments

    Edited by Enrique Murgui, Marcus Hedblom ...
    This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available. The numerous habitats represented in this book ranges from rows of trees in wooded alleys, to wastelands and remnants of natural habitats encapsulated in the urban matrix. Authored by leading scientists in this emergent field, the chapters explore how the ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

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  • How Cycling Can Save the World

    by Peter Walker ...
    Peter Walker—reporter at the Guardian and curator of its popular bike blog—shows how the future of humanity depends on the bicycle.Car culture has ensnared much of the world—and it's no wonder. Convenience and comfort (as well as some clever lobbying) have made the car the transportation method of choice for generations. But as the world evolves, the high cost of the automobile is made clearer ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Urban and Regional Policy and its Effects

    Building Resilient Regions, Volume IV

    Edited by Margaret Weir, Nancy Pindus, Howard Wial ...
    The mission of the Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.Volume four of the series introduces and examines thoroughly the concept of regional ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • 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

    $89.99 USD

  • Frameworks for Policy Analysis

    Merging Text and Context

    by Raul P. Lejano ...
    Frameworks for Policy Analysis argues that, in order to bring relevance back to policy analysis, we need to approach policy situations as complex phenomena and employ multiple ways of looking at things in order to understand the essential elements of each policy case. The book is an exploration of distinct, sometimes radically different, models for analysis, but it is also a reference for these ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Handbook of Sustainable Travel

    Edited by Tommy Gärling, Dick Ettema, Margareta Friman ...
    This volume gathers distinguished researchers on travel behavior from a variety of disciplines, to offer state-of-the-art research and analysis encompassing environmental, traffic and transport psychology; transport planning and engineering; transport geography; transport economics; consumer services research; environmental sociology and well-being research. The underlying dilemma is that neither ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • M² Models and Methodologies for Community Engagement

    Edited by Reena Tiwari, Marina Lommerse, Dianne Smith ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    How can we engage communities? What is empowerment? To what extent should the project process be participatory? How is an outsider-insider relationship handled? How do researchers negotiate with the hegemony of western cultural interpretations? How are organizational and contextual influences handled in a project? What leadership demands do such projects p... ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Investigating Quality of Urban Life

    Theory, Methods, and Empirical Research

    Edited by Robert W. Marans, Robert J. Stimson ...
    Series Book 45 - Social Indicators Research Series
    The study of quality of urban life involves both an objective approach to analysis using spatially aggregated secondary data and a subjective approach using unit record survey data whereby people provide subjective evaluations of QOL domains. This book provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical perspectives on QOUL and methodological approaches to research design to investigate QOUL and ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Vertebrates and Invertebrates of European Cities:Selected Non-Avian Fauna

    Edited by John G. Kelcey ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Vertebrates and Invertebrates of European Cities: Selected Non-Avian Fauna is the first known account of the vertebrate and invertebrate fauna of several cities in Europe and throughout the rest of the world. It excludes birds, which are described in a companion volume. The book contains eleven chapters about nine cities distributed throughout Europe. The chapters start with the history of the ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

    Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

    by Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource utilization in the past 300 years in China. A literature review focuses on the assumptions, methodologies and models of reconstructing ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Urban Morphology and Housing Market

    by Yang Xiao ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is devoted to fill the ‘urban economics niche’ and conceptualize a framework for valuing the urban configuration via local housing market. Advanced network analysis techniques are employed to capture the centrality features hindered in street layout. The author explores the several effects of urban morphology via housing market over two distinct contexts: UK and China. This work will ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space

    Lasting Legacies?

    by Robert Oliver, John Lauermann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann show that bidding is often a politically strategic exercise, as planning ideas are recycled from one ... Read more

    $62.99 USD