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  • Towards Sustainable Cities

    East Asian, North American and European Perspectives on Managing Urban Regions

    by Peter J. Marcotullio ...
    Series series Urban Planning and Environment
    While there has been much recent research into achieving sustainability in urban areas, most of this is specific to a particular region. This volume broadens these discussions by extending the analysis from North American and European cities to include East Asian cities. Many cities in Asia have deep historical roots, have sustained dense populations through time and have grown prosperous in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Urban Energy and Climate

    Prospects for a Sustainable Transition

    by Peter J Marcotullio, Josh Sperling, Andrea L Pierce ...
    Series Book 8 - World Scientific Series in Current Energy Issues
    With the continuous migration of people towards metropolitan areas in search of employment, the demands for core services and energy, coupled with an increasing awareness of the impact of climate change, have placed the management and planning of global urban energy under a lot of pressure. Trends toward urban energy service transformations that offer greater affordability, reliability, efficiency ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges

    From Local to Global and Back

    Edited by Gordon McGranahan, Peter J. Marcotullio ...
    �Think globally, act locally� emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, showing how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental justice and good governance - whether in the context of the sanitary risks of slum living, the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities

    A Global Assessment

    Edited by Thomas Elmqvist, Michail Fragkias, Julie Goodness, Burak Güneralp, Peter J. Marcotullio, Robert I. McDonald, Susan Parnell, Maria Schewenius, Marte Sendstad, Karen C. Seto, Cathy Wilkinson ...
    Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where cities also are dependent on, and have impacts on, the biosphere at different scales from local to global. The book is a global assessment and delivers four main conclusions:Urban areas are expanding ... Read more

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