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Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities
Local Action for Global Goals
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
'This is surely the most impressive and important publication to come out of the UN system for many years.' Peter Adamson, founder, New Internationalist, and author and researcher of UNICEF's The State of the World's Children from 1980 to 1995 The world's governments agreed at the Millennium Summit...
Globalization and Development
Why East Asia Surged Ahead and Latin America Fell Behind
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Comparing the experience of East Asia and Latin America since the mid-1970s, Elson identifies the key internal factors common to each region which have allowed East Asia to take advantage of the trade, financial, and technological impact of a more globalized economy to support its development, while Latin America has not.
by Cedric Pugh
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
The 1992 Rio Summit and subsequent literature and debate has focused on 'green' issues such as biodiversity, climate change and marine pollution. Much less has been written concerning the 'brown' agenda: factors such as poor sanitation and water quality, air pollution and housing problems which are...
Planning in the UK
Agendas for the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This title was first published in 2003:The advent of the Labour government in 1997 provoked major change in the political landscape of the UK. Priorities changed and different themes moved to the top of the agenda such as local democracy, community, transparency, sustainability and co-ordinated or...
Transition towards Sustainable Mobility
The Role of Instruments, Individuals and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Reflecting the dynamic relationships between socio-technical behaviour and change, this book presents leading research on the transition process needed to achieve more sustainable transport systems. Focusing on making transition happen, this volume looks at various aspects and factors that are involved...
Mediated Modeling
A System Dynamics Approach To Environmental Consensus Building
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Mediated modeling is an innovative new approach that enhances the use of computer models as invaluable tools to guide policy and managemdecisions. Rather than having outside experts dispensing answers to local stakeholders, mediated modeling brings together diverse interests to raise the shared level...
Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World
Finding Solutions in Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America contain some of the world's most life- and health-threatening human environments. Environment-related diseases and injuries cause millions of preventable deaths each year. In many squatter settlements,...
Flood Planning
The Politics of Water Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Floods are amongst the most common and most devastating natural disasters. A major flood may cause the death of thousands, sometimes millions, of people and cause immense damage. It may also challenge a government's legitimacy if warning measures or flood protection systems are perceived as having...
Neoliberal Urban Policy and the Transformation of the City
Reshaping Dublin
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book reviews the character and impacts of 'actually-existing' neoliberalism in Ireland. It examines the property-development boom and its legacy, the impacts of neoliberal urban policy in reshaping the city, public resistance to the new urban policy and highlights salient points to be drawn from the Irish experience of neoliberalism.
by Greg Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Planning is described as being increasingly sidelined by the impacts of neo-liberal restructuring. At the same time, 'culture' is nowadays seen as the world's key intellectual resource possessing new creative weight in sociological, economic and environmental terms. This book argues that, in the light...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one of the largest multi-sport games in the world. 6,132 athletes from 41 countries competed in 48 sports in the 2015 Games in Toronto, Canada. The Games are simultaneously...
Planning in Ten Words or Less
A Lacanian Entanglement with Spatial Planning
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book takes a Lacanian, and related post-structuralist perspective to demythologize ten of the most heavily utilised terms in spatial planning: rationality, the good, certainty, risk, growth, globalization, multi-culturalism, sustainability, responsibility and 'planning' itself. It highlights...
Wychwood
The making of one of the world's most magical gardens
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
The garden at Wychwood, at the foot of the Great Western Tiers in northern Tasmania, is one of the world's most magical places. Wychwood combines Scandinavian design sensibilities with temperate-climate country-garden charm. And to top it off, the idyllic Mole Creek, which is home to brown trout and...
Save the Bees!
Beekeepers on the Frontlines of New York’s Urban Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Grappling with the strange phenomenon of colony collapse disorder—the baffling disappearance of all bees from a hive that is often blamed for the honeybee’s increasingly endangered status—New York City’s hobbyist beekeeping communities have gone green. Lisa Jean Moore and Mary Kosut introduce...