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  • The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society

    by Arjen Y. Hoekstra ...
    Series series Earthscan Water Text
    Using the water footprint concept, this impactful book aids our understanding of how we can reduce water consumption and pollution to sustainable levels.Since the publication of the first edition, the question of how to reduce our water footprint has become even more urgent. Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk and overconsumption of water is widespread. The ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Water Footprint Assessment Manual

    Setting the Global Standard

    by Maite M. Aldaya, Ashok K. Chapagain, Mesfin M. Mekonnen, Arjen Hoekstra ...
    People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but significantly more for producing things such as food, paper and cotton clothes. The water footprint is an indicator of water use that looks at both direct and indirect water use of a consumer or producer. Indirect use refers to the 'virtual water' embedded in tradable goods and commodities, such as cereals, sugar or cotton. The water ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

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  • Home Truths

    Confronting New Zealand’s Housing Crisis

    by Philippa Howden-Chapman ...
    Series Book 37 - BWB Texts
    The poor standard of current housing, and the inability of too many people on low incomes to access decent housing, is causing a cascade of problems that are avoidable.Housing affordability. Unhealthy homes. Wealth inequality. Environmental sustainability. Social mobility. The state of New Zealand housing is central to many major issues confronting this country. In this wide-ranging BWB Text, ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • Biofuels. An Overview.

    by Ian J Miller ...
    During the 1970s oil crisis, Dr Miller was a Section Head at New Zealand's national chemistry laboratory, and during this period he surveyed the technology available to make biofuels, and embarked on his own program. Now, with a further resurgence of interest in biofuels, he has repeated the exercise. This ebook summarizes the biomass resources that might be used to make biofuels, it considers the ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Multiply/Divide

    On the American Real and Surreal

    by Wendy S. Walters ...
    I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history. The fact that I am descended from slaves is hard to acknowledge on a day-to-day basis, because slavery does not fit with my self-image. Perhaps this is because I am pretty certain I would not have survived it.In the manner of Calvino's Invisible Cities, Wendy Walters deftly ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Small Change

    About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

    by Nabeel Hamdi ...
    What exactly is 'small change'?Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects.This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, small-scale actions. Written by Nabeel Hamdi, the guru of urban ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Making Cities Work

    Role of Local Authorities in the Urban Environment

    by Richard Gilbert, Don Stevenson, Herbert Girardet, Richard Stren ...
    Series series Energy and Infrastructure Set
    For too long, cities have been thought of as environmental blackspots, with high levels of air and soil pollution, overcrowding, poor sanitation and growing waste disposal problems. This book takes a more positive attitude: cities can be made to work sustainably. Their high population density can work in the environment's favour if they can achieve efficient use of resources such as energy and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Urban Microclimate

    Designing the Spaces Between Buildings

    by Evyatar Erell, David Pearlmutter, Terence Williamson ...
    The quality of life of millions of people living in cities could be improved if the form of the city were to evolve in a manner appropriate to its climatic context. Climatically responsive urban design is vital to any notion of sustainability: it enables individual buildings to make use of renewable energy sources for passive heating and cooling, it enhances pedestrian comfort and activity in ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • The Water Crisis in Yemen

    Managing Extreme Water Scarcity in the Middle East

    by Christopher Ward ...
    Christopher Ward provides a complete analysis of the water crisis in Yemen, including the institutional, environmental, technical and political economy components. He assesses the social and economic impacts of the crisis and provides in-depth case studies in the key management areas. The final part of the book offers an assessment of current strategy and looks at future ways in which the people ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD

  • Theories of Urban Politics

    Edited by David Imbroscio, Jonathan S Davies ...
    ′Anybody who thinks the study of urban politics is stagnating needs to pick up a copy of Theories of Urban Politics. Insightful analysis of scholarship on traditional topics is supplemented by chapters on nontraditional topics, including the new institutionalism, network governance, and urban leadership… If you want to keep up with cutting-edge debates in urban studies, the Davies and Imbroscio ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • The Community Planning Event Manual

    How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

    by Nick Wates, John Thompson ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an opportunity to have their say and be involved - residents, businesses, professionals and politicians. It's effective and it ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Spanish markets ebook evolution report 2016

    by Javier Celaya, Manuel Gil, Margarita Guerrero ...
    Translated by Annabelle Pratt ...
    Although publishing and digital cultures are evolving at highly different speeds in the Spanish markets, technology and the ebook both offer a broad spectrum of business opportunities for publishers in Latin America and Spain. The soaring number of ebooks published in those countries, the growing importance of digital reading and the increasing role of the Internet as a distribution and marketing ... Read more

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