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  • Sustainable Ho Chi Minh City: Climate Policies for Emerging Mega Cities

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    As climate change and urban development are closely interlinked and often interact negatively, this edited volume takes Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam’s first mega-urban region as a case study to analyse its vulnerability to climate change and to suggest measures towards a more sustainable urban development. The book offers an overview on land use planning regarding the aspects of urban flooding ... Leer más

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    Environmentally, our planet lacks the laws to keep it safe and those laws we do have are feebly enforced. Every new year is the hottest in human history, while forest, reef, ice, tundra, and species are disappearing forever. It is easy to lose all hope.Who will stop the planet from committing ecological suicide? The UN? Governments? Activists? Corporations? Engineers? Scientists? Whoever, ... Leer más

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  • The Design Charrette

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    Edición de Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book was written to support community involvement in the design process, to help prevent negative outcomes that can result from a top-down design approach. The combination of community involvement and design is, at least in literature, not very extensive. Although much has been written about stakeholder involvement, this is often not directly related to design processes, which – most ... Leer más

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  • Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions

    European and Asian Experiences

    Series 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 ... Leer más

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  • SpeakOut

    The Step-by-Step Guide to SpeakOuts and Community Workshops

    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    Finding specific advice on inclusive processes for engaging a community in a planning or design process can be a daunting undertaking. The latest offering in the Tools for Community Planning Series is the product of nearly two decades of successful practice by internationally acclaimed community planning specialists. It is designed to support veterans and people with little or no experience to ... Leer más

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  • Developing Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change

    Edición de E. Carina H. Keskitalo ...
    Mitigation will not be sufficient for us to avoid climate change and we will need to adapt to its consequences. This book targets the development of adaptation policy in European countries with different relations between central and regional/local government. ... Leer más

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  • Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation

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    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    These days human beings have a profound influence on aspects of the planetary ecosystem, e.g. on climate change and biodiversity, to name only two. This manual is intended to help practitioners, who are dealing with human-based rural and urban settlement-ecosystems, in the key steps towards their realization (design, implementation, and operation) and helpful for all, who are concerned about ... Leer más

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  • Greening Cities

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    Edición de Puay Yok Tan, Chi Yung Jim ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers an overview of recent scientific and professional literature on urban greening and urban ecology, focusing on diverse disciplines such as landscape architecture, geography, urban ecology, urban climatology, biodiversity conservation, urban governance, architecture and urban hydrology. It includes contributions in which academics, public policy experts and practitioners share their ... Leer más

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  • Technologies and Innovations for Development

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    Technological innovation – combined with scientific research – has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations that are adapted to the social, environmental, cultural and economic conditions of receiving countries, ... Leer más

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  • Swarm Planning

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    de Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book shows that the problem of climate adaptation, which is described in social planning terms as ‘wicked,’ is at odds with the contemporary practice of spatial planning. The author proposes a new adjusted framework which is more adaptable to unpredictable, wicked, dynamic and non-linear processes. The inspiration for this new method is the behaviour of swarms: bees, ants, birds and fish are ... Leer más

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  • Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Asia

    Edición de Belinda Yuen, Asfaw Kumssa ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is about African and Asian cities. Illustrated through selected case cities, the book brings together a rich collection of papers by leading scholars and practitioners in Africa and Asia to offer empirical analysis and up-to-date discussions and assessments of the urban challenges and solutions for their cities. A number of key topics concerning housing, sustainable urban development and ... Leer más

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