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  • Urban Nature

    New Directions for City Futures

    by Kes McCormick, Bernadett Kiss, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan, Harriet Bulkeley, McKenna Davis, Rob Raven, Andrés Luque-Ayala, Kathrin Hörschelmann ...
    This introductory textbook with a global scope aims to train students of geography, sustainability, and urban and environmental studies to re-imagine and transform cities to meet climate, biodiversity, and sustainability challenges. A dedicated team of authors critically examine the relationships between nature and urban areas, sharing an inspiring account of how nature helps us re-think our ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Smart and Sustainable Cities?

    Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities

    Edited by James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Chris Martin, Andres Luque-Ayala, Kes McCormick, Rob Raven, Yuliya Voytenko Palgan ...
    Smart cities promise to generate economic, social and environmental value through the seamless connection of urban services and infrastructure by digital technologies. However, there is scant evidence of how these activities can enhance social well-being and contribute to just and equitable communities.Smart and Sustainable Cities? Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities provides one of the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Experimental City

    Edited by James Evans, Andrew Karvonen, Rob Raven ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism
    This book explores how the concept or urban experimentation is being used to reshape practices of knowledge production in urban debates about resilience, climate change governance, and socio-technical transitions.With contributions from leading scholars, and case studies from the Global North and South, from small to large scale cities, this book suggests that urban experiments offer novel modes ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Learning Futures

    Education, Technology and Social Change

    by Keri Facer ...
    In the twenty-first century, educators around the world are being told that they need to transform education systems to adapt young people for the challenges of a global digital knowledge economy. Too rarely, however, do we ask whether this future vision is robust, achievable or even desirable, whether alternative futures might be in development, and what other possible futures might demand of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sustainable Urban Development Volume 4

    Changing Professional Practice

    Edited by Ian Cooper, Martin Symes ...
    Series series Sustainable Urban Development Series
    This new book explores how the professions responsible for enhancing the built environment's sustainability seek to deliver this new agenda, offering multi-perspective case studies and discussion to argue for a rethinking of the role of urban development professional.Showing how sustainability is rapidly becoming the norm for practitioners, the authors consider new types of professional knowledge, ... Read more

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  • Knowledge Economies

    Clusters, Learning and Cooperative Advantage

    by Philip Cooke ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy
    This book traces the theoretical explanation for clusters back to the work of classical economists and their more modern disciples, who saw economic development as a process involving serious imbalances in the exploitation of resources. Initially, natural resource endowments explained the formation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century industrial districts. Today, geographical concentrations ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • International Practices of Smart Development

    Edited by Robertas Jucevicius, Jurgita Bruneckiene, Gerd-Bodo von Carlsburg ...
    Series Book 30 - New Approaches in Educational and Social Sciences / Neue Denkansaetze in den Bildungs- und Sozialwissenschaften
    Smart people make a smart city. This volume presents a collection of papers on the concept of smartness, smart development and the international practices in the field. There are five key topic areas: the conceptual, smart economy, smart specialisation, smart city and public governance. The concept of a smart social system is grounded on comparative analysis of competing concepts such as ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Governing Technology for Sustainability

    by Joseph Murphy ...
    In a world of growing complexity and dwindling resources, the relationship between technology and sustainability is a pressing issue of concern at the highest levels. This book improves our understanding by examining the ways that people, technology and governance shape each other with implications for sustainability. It is the first book to link technology studies and governance research to this ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Is Technology Good for Education?

    by Neil Selwyn ...
    Series series Digital Futures
    Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts, the rapid digitization of education over the past ten years has undoubtedly been a ‘good thing’.Is Technology Good For Education? ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • The Age of Sustainability

    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    by Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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  • Crisis Response in Higher Education

    How the Pandemic Challenged University Operations and Organisation

    by Mats Benner, Jonathan Grant, Mary O’Kane ...
    This open access book explores the impact of Covid-19 on universities, and how students, staff, faculty and academic leaders have adapted to and dealt with the impact of the pandemic. Drawing on experiences from Britain, Australia and Sweden, it showcases how Covid has challenged routines and procedures in universities, and thrown them into a disarray of ever-changing events and short-term ... Read more

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  • The Creative City

    A Toolkit for Urban Innovators

    by Charles Landry ...
    The Creative City is a clarion call for imaginative action in developing and running urban life. It shows how to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues, with remarkable examples of innovation and regeneration from around the world. This revised edition of Charles Landry's highly influential text has been updated with a new, extensive overview. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD