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  • The Social Architecture of Green Communities

    Organizing Grassroots Practivism for the Sustainable Transition

    Edited by Quentin Gausset, Helen Jarvis, Simon Lex, Freja Bach Kristensen, Camilla Nielsen-Englyst ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Anthropology
    Using case studies from ten European and North American countries, this book discusses the challenges connected to designing viable social architectures in a variety of green communities in urban and rural areas, and in affluent districts and government-subsidised social housing.Global warming constitutes one of the greatest challenges of our time, but governmental responses have so far been slow ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Role of Non-State Actors in the Green Transition

    Building a Sustainable Future

    Edited by Jens Hoff, Quentin Gausset, Simon Lex ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    This book argues that there is no way to make progress in building a sustainable future without extensive participation of non-state actors.The volume explores the contribution of non-state actors to a sustainable transition, starting with citizens and communities of different kinds and ending with cities and city-networks. The authors analyse social, cultural, political and economic drivers and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Community Development in an Uncertain World

    Vision, Analysis and Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local and international scale in the context of globalisation and postcolonial theory. Students will ... Read more

    $76.29 USD

  • Exploring Degrowth

    A Critical Guide

    by Vincent Liegey, Anitra Nelson ...
    Series series FireWorks
    A sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer, people are eager to learn what degrowth is about, and whether we can save the planet by changing how we live. This book is an introduction to the movement.As politicians and corporations obsess over growth objectives, the degrowth movement demands ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    by Bob Gibson, Selma Hassan, James Tansey ...
    Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Design and Ethics

    Reflections on Practice

    Edited by Emma Felton, Oksana Zelenko, Suzi Vaughan ...
    The value of design for contributing to environmental solutions and a sustainable future is increasingly recognised. It spans many spheres of everyday life, and the ethical dimension of design practice that considers environmental, social and economic sustainability is compelling.Approaches to design recognise design as a practice that can transform human experience and understanding, expanding ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Understanding Sustainable Development

    by John Blewitt ...
    A truly comprehensive introduction to the topic, Understanding Sustainable Development is designed to give students on a wide range of courses an appreciation of the key concepts and theories of sustainable development.Fully updated, the third edition includes detailed coverage of the Sustainable Development Goals and their impact on global development. Major challenges and topics are explored ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Urban Sustainability

    Reconnecting Space and Place

    by Ann Dale, William Dushenko, Pamela J. Robinson ...
    Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.Urban Sustainability is the first book to provide an applied interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges and opportunities ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Hoi L. Kong, Tanya Monforte ...
    The inaction of nation states and international bodies has posed significant risks to the environment. By contrast, cities are sites of action and innovation. In Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance, contributors researching in the areas of law, urban planning, geography, and philosophy identify approaches for tackling many of the most challenging environmental problems ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Food Practices in Transition

    Changing Food Consumption, Retail and Production in the Age of Reflexive Modernity

    Edited by Gert Spaargaren, Peter Oosterveer, Anne Loeber ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions
    This edited volume presents and reflects upon empirical evidence of ‘sustainability’-induced and -related transition in food practices. The material collected in the various chapters contributes to our understanding of the ways in which ideas and preferences, sociotechnological developments and changes in the governance of food interact and become visible in practices of consumption, retail and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Local Economic Development and the Environment

    by David Gibbs ...
    This book focuses upon the potential to integrate economic and environmental policies at the local and regional scale. Local initiatives are investigated within their wider economic and environmental policy contexts in order to illustrate both the constraints and opportunities for local policy makers. Attention is given to global economic trends, as well as to the specific policy contexts of the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education

    A Transformative Agenda?

    by Wendy Steele, Lauren Rickards ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book explores the role universities have to play in fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the heart of “sustainable development” is the legacy of unsustainable development with its roots in modernity and colonialism. Critical engagement with the SDGs involves recognising these roots are shared by universities and the reciprocal need for maintenance, repair and regeneration. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD