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  • Regulation for Revenue

    The Political Economy of Land Use Exactions

    by Alan A. Altshuler, Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Philosophy
    Over the past two decades Americans have become increasingly skeptical about the benefits of community growth and hostile to new taxes--while continuing to demand improvements in local services. One response to this tension has been a burgeoning movement to raise public revenue by regulating growth. In this timely book, the authors explain that most growing localities now require private ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Managing Crises

    Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies

    Edited by Arnold M. Howitt, Herman B. Leonard ...
    From floods to fires, tornadoes to terrorist attacks, governments must respond to a variety of crises and meet reasonable standards of performance. What accounts for governments’ effective responses to unfolding disasters? How should they organize and plan for significant emergencies? With fifteen adapted Kennedy School cases, students experience first-hand a series of large-scale emergencies and ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific

    Policy and Governance

    Edited by Caroline Brassard, David W. Giles, Arnold M. Howitt ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable to a variety of natural and manmade hazards. This edited book productively brings together scholars and senior public officials having direct experience in dealing with or researching on recent major natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific. The chapters focus on disaster preparedness and management, including pre-event planning and mitigation, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    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

    $109.29 CAD

  • Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

    by Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate ... Read more

    $268.99 CAD

  • Risk Governance

    The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

    Edited by Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Earthquake Hazard Impact and Urban Planning

    Edited by Maria Bostenaru Dan, Iuliana Armas, Agostino Goretti ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The classical field dealing with earthquakes is called “earthquake engineering” and considered to be a branch of structural engineering. In projects dealing with strategies for earthquake risk mitigation, urban planning approaches are often neglected. Today interventions are needed on a city, rather than a building, scale. This work deals with the impact of earthquakes, including also a broader ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation

    Sectoral Analysis

    Edited by Bin Su, Elspeth Thomson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study how best to achieve green growth and a low-carbon transition in a developing country like China. The progress of China’s carbon mitigation policies also has significant impacts on the on-going international climate change negotiations. Therefore, both ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis

    Edited by Pamela S. Showalter, Yongmei Lu ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is the second in a series that examines how geographic information te- nologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations. The main types of technologies covered under the umbrella of GIT, as used in this volume, are geographic information systems, remote sensing (not including ground-penetrating or underwater systems), and ... Read more

    $179.89 CAD

  • Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance

    Edited by Derek Armitage, Ryan Plummer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Rapid environmental change calls for individuals and societies with an ability to transform our interactions with each other and the ecosystems upon which we depend. Adaptive capacity - the ability of a social-ecological system (or the components of that system) to be robust to disturbances and capable of responding to changes - is increasingly recognized as a critical attribute of multi-level ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Tohoku Recovery

    Challenges, Potentials and Future

    Edited by Rajib Shaw ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused extensive damage in various sectors. Through the recovery process, special lessons are being learned and applied in the affected region. This book attempts to draw lessons from different issues and sectors such as policy perspectives (both national and local), the role of international NGOs, fishing ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Growing Green

    The Economic Benefits of Climate Action

    by 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 ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD