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  • Reimagining Sustainable Cities

    Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities

    de Stephen M. Wheeler ...
    A cutting-edge, solutions-oriented analysis of how we can reimagine cities around the world to build sustainable futures.What would it take to make urban places greener, more affordable, more equitable, and healthier for everyone? In recent years, cities have stepped up efforts to address climate and sustainability crises. But progress has not been fast enough or gone deep enough. If communities ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Sustainable Urban Development Reader

    Edición de Stephen M. Wheeler ...
    Series series Routledge Urban Reader Series
    This thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of The Sustainable Urban Development Reader combines classic and contemporary readings to provide a broad introduction to the topic that is accessible to general and undergraduate audiences.The Reader begins by tracing the roots of the sustainable development concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through classic readings. It then ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Climate Change and Social Ecology

    A New Perspective on the Climate Challenge

    de Stephen M. Wheeler ...
    Although strategies to prevent global warming – such as by conserving energy, relying on solar and wind power, and reducing motor vehicle use – are well-known, societies have proved unable to implement these measures with the necessary speed. They have also been unwilling to confront underlying issues such as overconsumption, overpopulation, inequity, and dysfunctional political systems. Political ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

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  • Can a City Be Sustainable? (State of the World)

    de The Worldwatch Institute ...
    Series series State of the World
    Cities are the world’s future. Today, more than half of the global population—3.7 billion people—are urban dwellers, and that number is expected to double by 2050. There is no question that cities are growing; the only debate is over how they will grow. Will we invest in the physical and social infrastructure necessary for livable, equitable, and sustainable cities? In the latest edition of State ... Leer más

    $33.89 USD

  • The Sustainable City

    de Steven Cohen ...
    Living sustainably is not just about preserving the wilderness or keeping nature pristine. The transition to a green economy depends on cities. For the first time in human history, the majority of the people on the planet live in urban areas. If we are to avert climate catastrophe, we will need our cities to coexist with nature without destroying it. Many places are already investing in the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Five Rules for Tomorrow's Cities

    Design in an Age of Urban Migration, Demographic Change, and a Disappearing Middle Class

    de Patrick M. Condon ...
    How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, we will run out of time to keep our global temperature from increasing. Since approximately 80% of greenhouse gases come from cities, it follows that in the design of cities lies the fate of the world.As urban designers respond to the critical ... Leer más

    $29.59 USD

  • Creating A Sustainable And Desirable Future: Insights From 45 Global Thought Leaders

    de Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski ...
    The major challenge for the current generation of mankind is to develop a shared vision of a future that is both desirable to the vast majority of humanity and ecologically sustainable. Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future offers a broad, critical discussion on what such a future should or can be, with global perspectives written by some of the world's leading thinkers, including: Wendell ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Unlocking Sustainable Cities

    A Manifesto for Real Change

    de Paul Chatterton ...
    Series series Radical Geography
    This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting new routes can be unlocked for real change.Across the world, city innovators are putting real sustainability into practice - from transforming ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Planning for Sustainability

    Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities

    de Stephen Wheeler ...
    How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases.Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for more sustainable and livable communities. The text explores topics such as how more compact and walkable ... Leer más

    $115.99 USD

  • Strategy and Sustainability

    A Hardnosed and Clear-Eyed Approach to Environmental Sustainability For Business

    de Mike Rosenberg ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Business and environmental sustainability are not natural bedfellows. Business is about making money; sustainability is about protecting the planet. Business is measured in months and quarters; sustainability often requires significant short term costs to secure a sometimes uncertain long-term benefit. To some activists, all executives are exploitative, selfish “1 percenters”. To some executives, ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today

    de John Thackara ...
    A visionary yet practical guide to building a more sustainable future, by one of the most important voices in environmentally aware designAre there practical solutions to the many global challenges—climate change, poverty, insufficient healthcare—that threaten our way of life? Author John Thackara has spent a lifetime roving the globe in search of design that serves human needs. In this clear-eyed ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • A World of Three Zeros

    The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions

    de Muhammad Yunus ...
    From Nobel Prize winner and bestselling author of Banker to the Poor, a vision of an emerging new economic system that can save humankind and the planetMuhammad Yunus is one of the modern world’s most trenchant social critics. In A World of Three Zeros, he declare it’s time to admit that the capitalist engine has failed most people – that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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