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“matteo clemente”

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  • Resilient Landscapes

    Post-crisis Local Development and Sustainable Society

    Edited by Matteo Clemente, Jesús Rodrigo Comino, Francesco M. Chelli ...
    In recent years, resilient districts have become territorial contexts for projects designed to respond to the needs of local communities, through the exploitation of landscape peculiarities to overcome the economic crisis. This volume offers a comprehensive insight on sustainable development of local territories. It recommends the planning of local interventions through the integration of ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Peri-urban Conflicts and Environmental Challenges

    A Mediterranean Perspective

    Edited by Antonio Tomao, Matteo Clemente ...
    Urban expansion and the preservation of fringe landscapes are clearly interconnected issues. This book discusses the relationship between landscape and peri-urban agriculture and the possible implications of sustainable land management for fringe land quality, proposing a framework to evaluate the latent nexus between agro-forest systems and human settlements in Southern Europe. Eco-sustainable ... Read more

    $56.25 USD

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  • 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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  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Cities

    First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network

    Edited by Cynthia Rosenzweig, William D. Solecki, Stephen A. Hammer, Shagun Mehrotra ...
    Urban areas are home to over half the world's people and are at the forefront of the climate change issue. The need for a global research effort to establish the current understanding of climate change adaptation and mitigation at the city level is urgent. To meet this goal a coalition of international researchers - the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) - was formed at the time of the ... Read more

    $63.19 USD

  • Blue Planet Law

    The Ecology of our Economic and Technological World

    Edited by Maria da Glória Garcia, António Cortês ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Blue Planet Law is the global and future-oriented environmental law that is necessary to face the global environmental crisis in the Anthropocene, assuming especially the link between climate action (SDG 13) and ocean sustainability (SDG 14). This open access book focuses on means of overcoming global environmental problems such as climate change, ocean degradation and biodiversity loss and the ... Read more

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  • Marginality

    Addressing the Nexus of Poverty, Exclusion and Ecology

    Edited by Joachim von Braun, Franz W. Gatzweiler ...
    This book takes a new approach on understanding causes of extreme poverty and promising actions to address it. Its focus is on marginality being a root cause of poverty and deprivation. “Marginality” is the position of people on the edge, preventing their access to resources, freedom of choices, and the development of capabilities. The book is research based with original empirical analyses at ... Read more

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  • Climate Change, Justice and Sustainability

    Linking Climate and Development Policy

    Edited by Ottmar Edenhofer, Johannes Wallacher, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Michael Reder, Brigitte Knopf, Johannes Müller ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Analysing and synthesising vast data sets from a multitude of disciplines including climate science, economics, hydrology and agricultural research, this volume seeks new methods of combining climate change mitigation, adaptation, development, and poverty reduction in ways that are effective, efficient and equitable. A guiding principle of the project is that new alliances of state and non-state ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Climate Change and Cities

    Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network

    Edited by Cynthia Rosenzweig, William D. Solecki, Patricia Romero-Lankao, Shagun Mehrotra, Shobhakar Dhakal, Somayya Ali Ibrahim ...
    The Urban Climate Change Research Network's Second Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities (ARC3.2) is the second in a series of global, science-based reports to examine climate risk, adaptation, and mitigation efforts in cities. The book explicitly seeks to explore the implications of changing climatic conditions on critical urban physical and social infrastructure sectors and intersectoral ... Read more

    $85.29 USD

  • Urban Transformations, Land-use, and Environmental Change: Quantitative Approaches for Territorial Data

    Edited by Margherita Carlucci ...
    This book provides interesting insights for the identification of socioeconomic, demographic and territorial factors that affect structural disparities in local economies. Urban development is the result of demographic dynamics at the local level, connected to socioeconomic factors, and of economic growth, whose fluctuations are particularly sensitive to the economic cycle in countries, such as ... Read more

    $130.00 USD

  • Connecting the Sustainable Development Goals: The WEF Nexus

    Understanding the Role of the WEF Nexus in the 2030 Agenda

    Edited by Laura Cavalli, Sergio Vergalli ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This contributed volume offers a state-of-the-art, holistic overview of the employment of a Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus approach to implement the seventeen United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a geographical focus on applications in different African regions. The book is divided into three sections, each composed of several chapters contributed by experts in their respective ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Strategic Management of Sustainable Urban Development

    Economic Downturns, Metropolitan Governance and Local Communities

    by Sabato Vinci, Luca Salvati ...
    If we assume recession as being the starting point for policy challenges, then we can interpret these economic downturns as opportunities for change and the reshaping of society, landscapes and the latent mechanisms of growth. This book illustrates different aspects of local strategic development introducing a novel interpretation of the intimate relationship between demographic and economic ... Read more

    $56.25 USD