Island Press: 819 books
The Transit Metropolis
A Global Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding. Yet a number of metropolitan areas have in recdecades managed to mount cost-effective and resource-conserving transit services that provide respectable alternatives...
The End of Automobile Dependence
How Cities are Moving Beyond Car-Based Planning
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Cities will continue to accommodate the automobile, but when cities are built around them, the quality of human and natural life declines. Current trends show great promise for future urban mobility systems that enable freedom and connection, but not dependence. We are experiencing the phenomenon of...
Sustainability and Cities
Overcoming Automobile Dependence
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Sustainability and Cities examines the urban aspect of sustainability issues, arguing that cities are a necessary focus for that global agenda. The authors make the case that the essential character of a city's land use results from how it manages its transportation, and that only by reducing our...
The Upside of Down
Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2010
Environmental disasters. Terrorist wars. Energy scarcity. Economic failure. Is this the world's inevitable fate, a downward spiral that ultimately spells the collapse of societies? Perhaps, says acclaimed author Thomas Homer-Dixon - or perhaps these crises can actually lead to renewal for ourselves...
Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities
Design Strategies for the PCarbon World
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Questions of how to green the North American economy, create a green energy and transportation infrastructure, and halt the deadly increase in greenhouse gas buildup dominate our daily news. Related questions of how the design of cities can impact these challenges dominate the thoughts of urban planners...
City Rules
How Regulations Affect Urban Form
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities. Emily Talen demonstrates that regulations are a primary detrimto the creation of a desirable...
Sprawl Costs
Economic Impacts of Unchecked Development
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The environmental impacts of sprawling developmhave been well documented, but few comprehensive studies have examined its economic costs. In 1996, a team of experts undertook a multi-year study designed to provide quantitative measures of the costs and benefits of differforms of growth. Sprawl Costs...
Land Use and Society, Third Edition
Geography, Law, and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The intersection between geography and law is a critical yet often overlooked elemof land-use decisions, with a widespread impact on how societies use the land, water, and biodiversity around them. Land Use and Society, Third Edition is a clear and compelling guide to the role of law in shaping patterns...
by Michael Southworth, Eran Ben-Joseph
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
The topic of streets and street design is of compelling interest today as public officials, developers, and community activists seek to reshape urban patterns to achieve more sustainable forms of growth and development. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities traces ideas about street design and...
Negotiating Environmental Agreements
How To Avoid Escalating Confrontation Needless Costs And Unnecessary Litigation
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
When business leaders, governmofficials, and other stakeholders come to the table in an environmental, health, or safety dispute, acrimony often results, leading to expensive and time-consuming litigation. Not only does this waste precious resources, but rarely does the process produce the best outcome...
Wicked Environmental Problems
Managing Uncertainty and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
"Wicked" problems are large-scale, long-term policy dilemmas in which multiple and compounding risks and uncertainties combine with sharply divergpublic values to generate contentious political stalemates; wicked problems in the environmental arena typically emerge from entrenched conflicts over natural...
Measures of Success
Designing, Managing, and Monitoring Conservation and DevelopmProjects
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Measures of Success is a practical, hands-on guide to designing, managing, and measuring the impacts of community-oriented conservation and developmprojects. It presents a simple, clear, logical, and yet comprehensive approach to developing and implementing effective programs, and can help conservation...
Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban Systems, and Vulnerabilities
Technical Report for the U.S. Departmof Energy in Support of the National Climate Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Hurricane Irene ruptured a Baltimore sewer main, resulting in 100 million gallons of raw sewage flooding the local watershed. Levee failures during Hurricane Katrina resulted in massive flooding which did not recede for months. With temperatures becoming more extreme, and storms increasing in magnitude,...
Fishing Grounds
Defining A New Era For American Fisheries Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Fisheries managemtoday is highly contentious. The interests of fishers and fish processors, coastal communities, the government, and environmental organizations are often differand can even be mutually incompatible.*Fishing Grounds* offers a comprehensive assessmof the legal, social, economic and...