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Perspectives eBook Series

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  • Housing: Where’s the Plan?

    by Kate Barker ...
    Series series Perspectives
    Housing is a fundamental necessity, and yet it is generally acknowledged that we have a ‘housing crisis’ in the UK. The housing market has worked well for many people (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of their homes), which is why change, especially new building, is resisted. But for increasing numbers it now works less well, as home ownership is out of reach. Government finds it easier ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice

    Pattern and Process

    by Monica G. Turner, Robert H. Gardner ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This work provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with a variety of ecological processes. The text covers the quantitative approaches that are applied widely in landscape studies, with emphasis on their appropriate use and interpretation.The field ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning

    An International Evaluation

    by Michael Short, Mark Baker, Jeremy Carter, Stephen Jay, Carys Jones ...
    'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective and why. It provides invaluable insights for practitioners and researchers in this rapidy ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning

    Edited by Ayda Eraydin, Tuna Taşan-Kok ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Resilience and Opportunity

    Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita

    Edited by Amy Liu, Richard M. Mizelle, Roland Vanglin ...
    Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Commentary and analysis typically focused on what went wrong in the post-disaster emergency response. This forward-looking book, however, presents a more cautiously optimistic view about the region's ability to bounce back after multiple disasters.Catastrophes come in different forms-hurricanes, recessions, and oil spills, to name a ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Social Capital at the Community Level

    An Applied Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Edited by John M. Halstead, Steven C. Deller ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    In Social Capital at the Community Level, John Halstead and Steven Deller examine social capital formation beyond the individual level through a variety of disciplines: planning, economics, regional development, sociology, as well as non-traditional approaches like engineering and built environmental features. The notion of social capital in community and economic development has become a focus of ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Sand Dune Conservation, Management and Restoration

    by J. Patrick Doody ...
    Series Book 4 - Coastal Research Library
    This book deals with the development of temperate coastal sand dunes and the way these have been influenced by human activity. The different states in which the habitat exists both for the beach/foredune and inland dune are reviewed against the pressures exerted upon them. Options for management are considered and the likely consequences of taking a particular course of action highlighted. These ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Geography of Competition

    Firms, Prices, and Localization

    by John R. Miron ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and expert synthesis of location theory. What are the impacts of a firm’s geographic location on the locations of customers, suppliers, and competitors in a market economy? How, when, and why does this result in the clustering of firms in space? When and how is society made better or worse off as a result? This book uses dozens of locational models ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning

    Beyond the Flatlands

    Edited by Leonie Sandercock, Giovanni Attili ...
    Series Book 7 - Urban and Landscape Perspectives
    The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film and video to digital ethnography and the internet), which are opening up new possibilities in planning practices, processes, pedagogy and research. The authors document the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Land Use and Climate Change Interactions in Central Vietnam

    LUCCi

    Edited by Alexandra Nauditt, Lars Ribbe ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book summarizes the key findings of a five-year interdisciplinary research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF). It serves as a typical case study for a rapidly growing and developing urban center – Da Nang City, which is surrounded by remote areas characterized by increasing migration and limited development. A number of German and Vietnamese ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Democracy Deferred

    Civic Leadership after 9/11

    by D. Woods ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, civic leaders began to organize four coalitions that aimed to give ordinary citizens a chance to meet, to heal, and to be heard in rebuilding decisions. This book tells the inside story of the civic renewal movement they founded. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD