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  • Social Measurement and Social Indicators

    Issues of Policy and Theory

    by Michael Carley ...
    Series series Contemporary Social Research
    For the early pioneers of the social indicator movement, the possibilities of doing social good by developing the tools of social measurement seemed endless. However, in the early 1980s these high, and perhaps naïve, hopes remained unfulfilled, especially for the data needs of the policy-maker. If not pessimistic, administrators and public policy-makers were at least guarded about the usefulness ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Urban Development and Civil Society

    The Role of Communities in Sustainable Cities

    by Michael Carley, Harry Smith ...
    The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed. Where it was once taken for granted that responsibility for urban development lay with the state, increasingly the emphasis has shifted to market-driven and public-private sector initiatives, which can marginalize the intended beneficiaries ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Managing Sustainable Development

    by Michael Carley, Ian Christie ...
    In a world where environmental problems spill across political, administrative and disciplinary boundaries, there is a pressing need for a clear understanding of the kinds of organizations, management structures and policy-making approaches required to bring about socially equitable and ecologically sustainable development. In this second edition, the authors incorporate lessons from a decade of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Edinburgh New Town

    A Model City

    by Michael Carley, Robert Dalziel, Pat Dargan, Simon Laird ...
    Edinburgh’s New Town, built between 1767 and 1850, is one of Europe’s finest neoclassical neighbourhoods, a triumph of town planning, with UNESCO World Heritage status. But the importance of the New Town goes far beyond the quality of its architecture. Nearly 250 years after it was built, today it is not only a carefully conserved Georgian neighbourhood but a vibrant community in which people from ... Read more

    $14.19 USD

  • Sharing the World

    Sustainable Living and Global Equity in the 21st Century

    by Michael Carley, Phillipe Spapens ...
    This work proposes a framework based on the concept of a fair distribution of environmental space to include the diverse needs of North and South. Drawing on research in 38 countries, it aims to give an equitable basis for global development in order to achieve sustainable consumption by the year 2050. The environmental space approach seeks to explain the limitations of the global market economy ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Sustainable Development

    by Susan Baker ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
    The current focus on sustainable development opens up debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, about what constitutes social progress and about the character of development, both in the Global North and the Global South. The promotion of sustainable futures is taking on a new urgency in the context of climate change and biodiversity loss.This concise and accessible text ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Exploring Sustainable Development

    Geographical Perspectives

    Edited by Martin Purvis, Alan Grainger ...
    Sustainable development is capturing the attention of planners, politicians and business leaders. Within the academic sphere its study is increasingly breaching disciplinary boundaries to become a focus of attention for natural and social scientists alike. But in studying such a key concept, it is vital that there is a clear definition of what it means, how it is applied on the ground, and the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Food, Globalization and Sustainability

    by Peter Oosterveer, David A. Sonnenfeld ...
    Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices. This transition is generating unfamiliar challenges related to sustainability of food provision, the social impacts of international trade and global food governance. Distance in time and space between food producers and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Hard Choices

    Challenging the Singapore Consensus

    Edited by Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh, Donald Low ...
    Singapore is changing. The consensus that the PAP government has constructed and maintained over five decades is fraying. The assumptions that underpin Singaporean exceptionalism are no longer accepted as easily and readily as before. Among these are the ideas that the country is uniquely vulnerable, that this vulnerability limits its policy and political options, that good governance demands a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube

    A Passenger's History of the Tube

    by Andrew Martin ...
    Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from Kings Cross to Kings Cross on the Circle line? The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling and illogical metropolitan transport system in the world, the result of a series of botch-jobs and improvisations.Yet it transports over one billion passengers every year - and this figure is ... Read more

    $10.19 USD

  • 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

    $70.99 USD

  • Dublin Sights: a travel guide to the top 25 attractions in Dublin, Ireland (Mobi Sights)

    by MobileReference ...
    This illustrated Travel Guide is a part of the Mobi Sights series, our concise guides that only feature the most essential information on city attractions. This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. Inside you will find a locator map and a list of top attractions linked to individual articles. Addresses, telephones, hours of ... Read more

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