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  • Sustainability in America's Cities

    Creating the Green Metropolis

    by Ralph Bennett, Douglas Codiga, Nevin Cohen, Christopher De Sousa, Jonathan Fink, Amy Gardner, Aaron Golub, Jason Henderson, Gerrit Knaap, Lynn Mandarano, P. Timon McPhearson, Jennifer Obadia, Kent E. Portney, Madlen Simon, Kent Snyder, Cari Jean Varner, Jason Zeller ...
    "Sustainability" is more than the latest "green" buzzword. It represents a new way of viewing the interactions of human society and the natural world. Sustainability in America's Cities highlights how America's largest cities are acting to develop sustainable solutions to conflicts between development and environment.As sustainability rises to the top of public policy agendas in American cities, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Urban Planet

    Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities

    Edited by Thomas Elmqvist, Xuemei Bai, Niki Frantzeskaki, Corrie Griffith, David Maddox, Timon McPhearson, Susan Parnell, Patricia Romero-Lankao, David Simon, Mark Watkins ...
    Global urbanization promises better services, stronger economies, and more connections; it also carries risks and unforeseeable consequences. To deepen our understanding of this complex process and its importance for global sustainability, we need to build interdisciplinary knowledge around a systems approach. Urban Planet takes an integrative look at our urban environment, bringing together ... Read more

    $73.79 USD

  • Resilient Urban Futures

    Edited by Zoé A. Hamstead, David M. Iwaniec, Timon McPhearson, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Elizabeth M. Cook, Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson ...
    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for ... Read more

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  • The Climate Resilient Organization

    Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change and Weather Extremes

    by Andrew Griffiths, Martina K. Linnenluecke ...
    Climate change has had a significant impact globally, predominantly for those vulnerable to its influence. The first book of its kind, The Climate Resilient Organization assesses the issues that have mounted for decision-makers in the field, while providing strategies to tackle them.With a particular focus on building climate-resilient pathways for private sector organizations, the expert authors ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Organizing Sustainable Development

    Edited by Aneta Kuźniarska, Karolina Mania, Monika Jedynak ...
    Series series Routledge Open Business and Economics
    The role and meaning of sustainable development have been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. However, there has recently been a dynamic increase in interest in the subject, which results in numerous, in-depth scientific research and publications with an interdisciplinary dimension. This edited volume is a compendium of theoretical knowledge on sustainable development. The context ... Read more

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  • Sustainability Science

    An Introduction

    Edited by Arnim Wiek, Harald Heinrichs, Pim Martens, Gerd Michelsen ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This textbook provides a comprehensive compilation of conceptual perspectives, methodological approaches and empirical insights of inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability science. Written by an international team of authors from leading sustainability institutions, the textbook covers key perspectives and topics of the scientific discourse on sustainable development. More than two decades ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Sustainability Indicators

    Edited by Simon Bell, Stephen Morse ...
    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    This handbook provides researchers and students with an overview of the field of sustainability indicators (SIs) as applied in the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development. The editors have sought to include views from the center ground of SI development but also divergent ideas which represent some of the diverse, challenging and even edgy observations which are prominent in the wider ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Role of Business in Global Sustainability Transformations

    Edited by Dalia D’Amato, Anne Toppinen, Robert Kozak ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sustainability and Business
    Drawing on contributions from more than thirty scholars and experts in the field, this book examines the role of business as an enabler, as an inhibitor, and ultimately as a co-actor in global sustainability transformations expected over the next few decades.The Role of Business in Global Sustainability Transformations employs several theoretical perspectives and provides abundant examples and ... Read more

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  • Cooperation, Clusters, and Knowledge Transfer

    Universities and Firms Towards Regional Competitiveness

    Edited by Mário Raposo, Roel Rutten, Attila Varga, Joao J M Ferreira ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Cooperation and clusters have become the guiding paradigms for explaining and promoting regional competitiveness, but the cooperation process between firms and universities and the transfer of knowledge in guiding and nurturing regional competitiveness has received relatively little attention. This book strives to fill this gap in highlighting the connection between inter-firm cooperation in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Handbook of Sustainability Science and Research

    Edited by Walter Leal Filho ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This multidisciplinary handbook explores concrete case studies which illustrate how sustainability science and research can contribute to the realization of the goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It contains contributions from sustainability researchers from across the world. ... Read more

    $395.09 USD

  • Understanding Sustainable Development

    by John Blewitt ...
    A truly comprehensive introduction to the topic, Understanding Sustainable Development is designed to give students on a wide range of courses an appreciation of the key concepts and theories of sustainable development.Fully updated, the third edition includes detailed coverage of the Sustainable Development Goals and their impact on global development. Major challenges and topics are explored ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk

    Rethinking Our Response

    by Judith Curry ...
    Series series Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
    World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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