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“jan scheurer”

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  • Planning for Public Transport Accessibility

    An International Sourcebook

    de Carey Curtis, Jan Scheurer ...
    Bringing together a comparative analysis of the accessibility by public transport of 23 cities spanning four continents, this book provides a "hands-on" introduction to the evolution, rationale and effectiveness of a new generation of accessibility planning tools that have emerged since the mid-2000s. The Spatial Network Analysis for Multimodal Urban Transport Systems (SNAMUTS) tool is used as a ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

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  • Are Trams Socialist?

    Why Britain Has No Transport Policy

    de Christian Wolmar ...
    Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Urban Sustainability

    Reconnecting Space and Place

    de Ann Dale, William Dushenko, Pamela J. Robinson ...
    Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.Urban Sustainability is the first book to provide an applied interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges and opportunities ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles

    Development, Sprawl, and Nature Conservation in the Toronto Region

    de L. Anders Sandberg, Gerda R. Wekerle, Liette Gilbert ...
    The Oak Ridges Moraine is a unique landform that generated heated battles over the future of nature conservation, sprawl, and development in the Toronto region at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book provides a careful, multi-faceted history and policy analysis of planning issues and citizen activism on the Moraine’s future in the face of rapid urban expansion.The Oak Ridges Moraine ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Urban Transport without the hot air

    Volume 1: Sustainable solutions for UK cities

    de Steve Melia ...
    Series series without the hot air
    The UK population will reach 70 million by 2027. How will all these people get around? Is building more, wider roads really the solution?If you've ever studied, worked in or used transport, there's a good chance you'll have stopped one day and asked yourself 'why?'. With population numbers rising and more than three-quarters of the British population living in urban areas, cities are becoming ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Growing Green

    The Economic Benefits of Climate Action

    de Uwe Deichmann, Fan Zhang ...
    Series series Europe and Central Asia Reports
    Pollution from fossil fuels and degraded natural lands are raising the earth’s temperature. The evidence of the causes of global warming is clear, as are its consequences. The economic impacts of climate change are already apparent and they threaten development gains. Extreme weather events have brought severe droughts to Central Asia, heat waves and forest fires to Russia, and floods to ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Sustainable Future for Human Security

    Society, Cities and Governance

    Edición de Benjamin McLellan ...
    This book focuses on the human and societal aspects of sustainable development. Three major perspectives are considered: governance and its influence on sustainable development; urban environments and their broader human and environmental impacts; and disaster management. Each of these elements is critical in considering the current and prospective development of societies towards a sustainable ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Flood Planning

    The Politics of Water Security

    de Jeroen Warner ...
    Floods are amongst the most common and devastating natural disasters. In the wake of such an event, the pressure to initiate flood protection schemes that will provide security is enormous, and politicians promise quick solutions in the national interest. Jeroen Warner examines a number of such projects from around the world - the Middle East, South Asia and Western Europe - aimed at the ... Leer más

    $153.99 USD

  • Taking Chances

    The Coast after Hurricane Sandy

    de Karen M. O'Neill, Daniel J. Van Abs, Robert B. Gramling, Steven G. Decker, David A. Robinson, Daniel Baldwin Hess, Brian W. Conley, Adelle Thomas, Ashley Koning0, Daniel Redlaswk1, Joanna Burger2, Larry Niles3, Angela Oberg4, Julia Flagg5, Bonnie McCay6, Patricia M. Clay7, Lisa L. Colburn8, Kenneth A. Gould9, Tammy L. Lewis0, Mark Alan Hewitt1, Briavel Holcomb2, Clinton J. Andrews3, Mariana Leckner4, Melanie McDermott5, James K. Mitchell6, Frank A. Felder7, Shankar Chandramowli8 ...
    Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging exploration of the diverse challenges of Sandy and asks if this massive event will really change how ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Conflict and Change in Australia’s Peri-Urban Landscapes

    de Melissa Kennedy, Andrew Butt, Marco Amati ...
    Series series Urban Planning and Environment
    In an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countries. Generally considered as the space extending one hundred kilometres from the city fringe, peri-urban areas are contested and subject to a wide range of uses such as residential development, productive farming, water catchments, forestry, mineral and stone extraction and tourism and ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Power Switch

    Energy Regulatory Governance in the Twenty-First Century

    de G.Bruce Doern, Monica Gattinger ...
    Series series Heritage
    In the energy sector of Canadian economic and political life, power has a double meaning. It is quintessentially about the generation of power and physical energy. However, it is also about political power, the energy of the economy, and thus the overall governance of Canada. Power Switch offers a critical examination of the changing nature of energy regulatory governance, with a particular focus ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Renewable Energy in East Asia

    Towards a New Developmentalism

    de Christopher M. Dent ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    Energy is crucial to the functioning of any human society and central to understanding East Asia’s ‘economic miracle’. The region’s rapid development over the last few decades has been inherently energy-intensive and the impact on global energy security, climate change and the twenty-first-century global system generally is now very significant and will become more so over foreseeable years and ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD