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  • Homeowners and the Resilient City

    Climate-Driven Natural Hazards and Private Land

    Edited by Thomas Thaler, Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková, Barbara Tempels ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides an important overview of how climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or forest fires, continue to play a central role across the globe in the 21st century. Urban resilience has become an important term in response to climate change. Resilience describes the ability of a system to absorb shocks and depends on the vulnerability and ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery

    Edited by Lenka Slavíková, Thomas Hartmann, Thomas Thaler ...
    Financial schemes for flood recovery, if properly designed and implemented, might increase flood resilience. However, options for the increase of flood resilience during the recovery phase are to a large extent overlooked and the diversity of existing schemes shows that there has been a lack of consensus on how to achieve resilient flood recovery.Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Flood Resilience of Private Properties

    Edited by Thomas Hartmann, Willemijn van Doorn-Hoekveld, Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick, Tejo Spit ...
    Series series Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
    Flood Resilience of Private Propertiesexamines the division and balance of responsibilities between the public and the private when discussing flood resilience of private properties.Flooding is an expensive climate-related disaster and a threat to urban life. Continuing development in flood-prone zones compound the risks. Protecting all properties to the same standards is ever more challenging. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Spatial Planning in the Netherlands

    by Patrick Witte, Thomas Hartmann ...
    This book provides an introduction to spatial planning in the Netherlands. It explores the academic underpinnings of the discipline and its practical implications, making use of insights on planning practices from the Netherlands. As an academic book with relevance for spatial planning teaching and practice, the relation between planning practice and planning as an academic discipline are ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Planning By Law and Property Rights Reconsidered

    Edited by Barrie Needham, Thomas Hartmann ...
    Countries which take spatial planning seriously should take planning law and property rights also seriously. There is an unavoidable logical relationship between planning, law, and property rights. However, planning by law and property rights is so familiar and taken for granted that we do not think about the theory behind it. As a result, we do not think abstractly about its strengths and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Property Rights and Climate Change

    Land use under changing environmental conditions

    Edited by Fennie van Straalen, Thomas Hartmann, John Sheehan ...
    Series series Routledge Complex Real Property Rights Series
    Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights. This original contribution to the literature examines such climate changes through the lens of property rights, rather than through the lens of land use planning. The inherent assumption pursued is that the different types of environmental ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Frontiers of Land and Water Governance in Urban Areas

    Edited by Thomas Hartmann, Tejo Spit ...
    Series series Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance
    A society that intensifies and expands the use of land and water in urban areas needs to search for solutions to manage the frontiers between these two essential elements for urban living. Sustainable governance of land and water is one of the major challenges of our times. Managing retention areas for floods and droughts, designing resilient urban waterfronts, implementing floating homes, or ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Instruments of Land Policy

    Dealing with Scarcity of Land

    Edited by Jean-David Gerber, Thomas Hartmann, Andreas Hengstermann ...
    Series series Urban Planning and Environment
    In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations. To reinforce their position in situations of rivalrous land uses, planners can strategically use and combine different policy instruments in addition to standard land use plans. Effectively steering spatial development requires a keen ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation

    Environmental and Socio-Economic Aspects

    Edited by Carla S. S. Ferreira, Zahra Kalantari, Thomas Hartmann, Paulo Pereira ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    This book provides an overview of the typical nature-based solutions (NBS) used for flood mitigation at different scales and in different areas (e.g. from catchment to hillslope scale; from urban to coastal areas).NBS can provide several ecosystem services, such as water regulation and water quality enhancement, and as such offer relevant technical solutions to complement typical grey ... Read more

    $260.99 USD

  • Planning, Law and Economics

    The Rules We Make for Using Land

    by Barrie Needham, Edwin Buitelaar, Thomas Hartmann ...
    Series series
    Planning, Law and Economics sets out a new framework for applying a legal approach to spatial planning, showing how to improve the practice and help achieve its aims. The book covers planning laws, citizens' rights and property rights, asking ‘What rules do we want to make and, where necessary, enforce? And how do we want to apply them in planning practice?’ This book sets out, in general and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Clumsy Floodplains

    Responsive Land Policy for Extreme Floods

    by Thomas Hartmann ...
    Extreme floods cause enormous damage in floodplains, which levees cannot prevent. Therefore, it is vital for spatial planning to provide space for water retention in these areas. Land use planners, water management agencies, landowners, and policymakers all agree on this challenge, but attempts to make the space for rivers to provide retention are generally not very successful. Adopting an ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Land Policies in Europe

    Land-Use Planning, Property Rights, and Spatial Development

    Edited by Thomas Hartmann, Andreas Hengstermann, Mathias Jehling, Arthur Schindelegger, Fabian Wenner ...
    Land is a scarce resource. How can conflicting claims to land be reconciled? How can more housing be provided and, at the same time, the ecological goal of reducing land take be met? In many European countries, land-use planning is facing increasing and oftentimes contradictory challenges. This forms a land question, which requires land policies that can deal with the fraught relationship between ... Read more

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