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  • Urban Water Trajectories

    Modifié par Sarah Bell, Adriana Allen, Pascale Hofmann, Tse-Hui Teh ...
    Collections series Engineering (R0)
    Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services and infrastructure that have dominated for the past two centuries are increasingly infeasible. ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Small Change

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Art of City Making

    par Charles Landry ...
    City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic, ten-point plan, but strong principles can help send good city-making on its way. The vision for 21st century cities must be to be the most imaginative cities for the world rather than in the world. ... En savoir plus

    $93.99 CAD

  • Frameworks for Policy Analysis

    Merging Text and Context

    par Raul P. Lejano ...
    Frameworks for Policy Analysis argues that, in order to bring relevance back to policy analysis, we need to approach policy situations as complex phenomena and employ multiple ways of looking at things in order to understand the essential elements of each policy case. The book is an exploration of distinct, sometimes radically different, models for analysis, but it is also a reference for these ... En savoir plus

    $104.99 CAD

  • More Urban Less Poor

    An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

    par Goran Tannerfeldt, Per Ljung ...
    A world more urban...The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment....but less poorUnplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions

    European and Asian Experiences

    Modifié par Derk Loorbach, Julia M. Wittmayer, Hideaki Shiroyama, Junichi Fujino, Satoru Mizuguchi ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling to an international audience into how cities address the sustainability challenges they face. They do this by not repeating old patterns but by searching for new and innovative methods and instruments based on shared principles of a transitions approach. The book describes the quest of cities on two continents to accelerate and stimulate such ... En savoir plus

    $154.99 CAD

  • The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage

    Modifié par Johan Tidblad, Ron Hamilton, John Watt, Vladimir Kucera ...
    This book reviews the sources of the air pollutants responsible for building damage and the mechanisms involved. Studies investigating the relationships between pollution concentration (dose) and the resulting damage (response) are described and the latest research findings for dose-response functions are presented.Trends in pollutant emissions, ambient concentrations and building damage over time ... En savoir plus

    $179.99 CAD

  • China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation

    Sectoral Analysis

    Modifié par Bin Su, Elspeth Thomson ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Perspectives in Urban Ecology

    Ecosystems and Interactions between Humans and Nature in the Metropolis of Berlin

    Modifié par Wilfried Endlicher ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book gives an interdisciplinary overview on urban ecology. Basic understanding of urban nature development and its social reception are discussed for the European Metropolitan Area of Berlin. Furthermore, we investigate specific consequences for the environment, nature and the quality of life for city dwellers due to profound changes such as climate change and the demographic and economic ... En savoir plus

    $179.99 CAD

  • The Peri-Urban Interface

    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

    Modifié par Duncan McGregor, David Simon, Donald Thompson ...
    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... En savoir plus

    $97.99 CAD

  • Mitigating Climate Change

    The Emerging Face of Modern Cities

    Modifié par Anshuman Khare, Terry Beckman ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    With ever increasing trends in urban consumption and production practices, a call for action to mitigate Climate Change is often seen as a way to foster sustainable development. Considerable attention is now being paid to determine what urban sustainability would include. Today there is a pressing need to broaden our knowledge and apply new concepts and frameworks to development of modern cities. ... En savoir plus

    $179.99 CAD

  • Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing, China

    par Ran Liu ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as 'floaters' has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades. This book probes into the spatial mobility of migrant workers in Beijing, and questions the city 'rights' issues beneath the city-making movement in contemporary China. In revealing and explaining the socio-spatial injustice, this volume ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD