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Emerging megacities Serie de eBooks

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  • Methods for Stakeholder Analysis

    Exploring actor constellations in transition and change processes towards sustainable resource use and the case of Hyderabad, India

    de Christian Kimmich, Hannah Janetschek, Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf, Jennifer Meyer-Ueding, Julian Sagebiel, Fritz Reusswig, Kai Rommel, Markus Hanisch ...
    Series Libro 1/2009 - Emerging megacities
    Currently 23 cities exceed the 10 million inhabitants’ threshold. The number of world’s megacities is expected to grow to 39 in 2025 with 32 of these in emerging economies. While today cities cater for over half of the world’s population, they are facing ever increasing environmental problems. Whether or not an emerging megacity will be able to cope with expected climate change impacts and ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Electricity supply for irrigation

    Agricultural policies and farm level economics

    de Christian Kimmich ...
    Series Libro 2/2010 - Emerging megacities
    This report focuses on the policies of electricity provision for irrigation and the cost of groundwater-based irrigation. The empirical findings indicate that electricity regulation is unlikely to fulfil the expectations of an allocation-efficient tariff structure in the given political situation, leading to regulatory capture. The report’s chronological approach reveals development paths that are also ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Culture of Cities

    de Lewis Mumford ...
    Series Libro 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

    de Charles Montgomery ...
    A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier peopleCharles Montgomery's Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • People & Permaculture: Caring and Designing for Ourselves, Each Other and the Planet

    Caring and Designing for Ourselves, Eachother and The Planet

    de Looby Macnamara ...
    This is the first book to explore how to use permaculture design and principles for people, to restore personal, social and planetary well-being.People and Permaculture widens the definition of permaculture from being mostly about land based systems to taking it right into the heart of our own lives, relationships and society. It is for anyone who thought permaculture wasn't for them because they ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Local Governments and Climate Change

    Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities

    Edición de Maryke van Staden, Francesco Musco ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Global warming is changing the world as we know it. Climate change can have catastrophic impacts in numerous cities across the world. It is time for us to react – quickly and effectively. The European Community (EC) has been leading the fight against climate change, making it one of its top priorities. We have introduced the most ambitious targets of their kind, known as the “20/20/20 by 2020” ... Leer más

    $188.99 USD

  • The Outdoor Dutch Oven Cookbook, Second Edition

    de Sheila Mills ...
    Enjoy gourmet cooking outdoors“Well organized, clearly presented, and highly recommended.”--Field & Stream“Sheila Mills's chicken enchiladas were a tasty crowd pleaser. They required a minimum of ingredients and very little work.”--Cleveland Plain DealerWith this book and a Dutch oven--a readily available cooking pot with legs and a snug-fitting lid--you have the keys to camp cooking as you've ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Gentrification

    de Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly ...
    This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular press. Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Gentrification in a Global Context

    Edición de Rowland Atkinson, Gary Bridge ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This book throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and social costs given its ability to physically improve areas but also to displace indigenous inhabitants.Gentrification in a Global Perspective brings ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures

    Australia and Beyond

    de Janet McGaw, Anoma Pieris ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Healthy Soils, Sick Soils

    Understanding the Nature of Humus and How It Functions in Farming Systems

    de Margareth Sekera ...
    Now available in English for the first time, this popular 1943 treatise on biology and biologically correct working of soil from the pen of the famous soil scientist Prof. Dr. Franz Sekera, carefully edited and expanded by his wife, scientist Margareth Sekera, over the years, has long been beloved by farmers and soils scientists in its original German. Starting with the basic concepts of “tilth” ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The 'One Planet' Life

    A Blueprint for Low Impact Development

    de David Thorpe ...
    The One Planet Life demonstrates a path for everyone towards a way of life in which we don’t act as if we had more than one planet Earth. The difference between this approach and others is that it uses ecological footprint analysis to help to determine how effective our efforts are. Much of the book is a manual – with examples – on how to live the 'good life' and supply over 65% of your livelihood ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD