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World Development eBook Series

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  • Rural Development

    Putting the last first

    by Robert Chambers ...
    Series series World Development
    Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely appreciate the richness and validity of rural people's knowledge or the hidden nature of rural poverty. This is a challenging book for all concerned with rural development, as practitioners, academics, students or researchers. ... Read more

    $429.90 HKD

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  • Urban Transport without the hot air

    Volume 1: Sustainable solutions for UK cities

    by Steve Melia ...
    Series series without the hot air
    The UK population will reach 70 million by 2027. How will all these people get around? Is building more, wider roads really the solution?If you've ever studied, worked in or used transport, there's a good chance you'll have stopped one day and asked yourself 'why?'. With population numbers rising and more than three-quarters of the British population living in urban areas, cities are becoming ... Read more

    $200.59 HKD

  • Urban Transport Environment and Equity

    The Case for Developing Countries

    by Eduardo Alcantara Vasconcellos ...
    Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues. This book highlights the importance of social and political aspects of transport policy and provides a methodology to support this approach. It emphasizes the importance of co-ordinating urban, transport and traffic planning, and addresses ... Read more

    $515.90 HKD

  • Fair Shared Cities

    The Impact of Gender Planning in Europe

    by Marion Roberts ...
    Bringing together a diverse team of leading scholars and professionals, this book offers a variety of insights into ongoing gender mainstreaming policies in Europe with a focus on urban/spatial planning. Gender mainstreaming was first legislated for in the European Union with the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1999 and, although many interesting developments have occurred throughout the decade that ... Read more

    $609.71 HKD

  • Governing Sustainable Cities

    by Bob Evans, Marko Joas, Susan Sundback, Kate Theobald ...
    Urban governance and sustainability are rapidly becoming key issues around the world. Currently three billion people - half the population of the planet - live in cities, and by 2050 a full two-thirds of the world's population will be housed in ever larger and increasingly densely populated urban areas. The economic, social and environmental challenges posed by urbanization on such a large scale ... Read more

    $515.90 HKD

  • Cohesion, Coherence, Cooperation: European Spatial Planning Coming of Age?

    by Andreas Faludi ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Since its foundation the European Union has gradually developed policies that are aimed at achieving increased economic and social cohesion. This book examines the most recent of these, the concept of territorial cohesion.Territorial cohesion is the pursuit of balanced development, competitiveness, sustainable development, and good governance. These concerns are most readily addressed by the ... Read more

    $554.99 HKD

  • Creative Industry Districts

    An Analysis of Dynamics, Networks and Implications on Creative Clusters in Shanghai

    by Jinliao He ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy. Creative or cultural industry is seen as the new engine of the regional growth for both developed economies and emerging nations. At the point of transition in economy and society, China is recently striving to transform its economy from “made in China” towards “created in China”. This book ... Read more

    $752.39 HKD

  • Urban Land

    Degradation - Investigation - Remediation

    by Dieter D. Genske ...
    Urban land is an environmental key topic considering the increasing urbani sation of our world. The amounting pressure on resources especially in the urban environment demand awareness across technical and political sectors and solid concepts for workable solutions. This book will address those people, who are key in coping with the challenges of sustainable urban land use management: ... Read more

    $1,170.39 HKD

  • Basic and Clinical Environmental Approaches in Landscape Planning

    Edited by Hiroyuki Shimizu, Akito Murayama ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Our societies need to solve difficult issues to attain sustainability. The main challenges include, among others, global warming, demographic change, an energy crisis, and loss of biodiversity. In tackling these issues, a holistic understanding of our living space is important. The field of landscape planning and design is at the core the holistic concept and it makes several contributions to ... Read more

    $752.39 HKD

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment

    by Riki Therivel, Elizabeth Wilson, Donna Heaney, Stewart Thompson ...
    Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a new approach to environmental assessment, global in scope, which considers the environmental impacts of policies, plans and programmes. It is already in use in a number of countries and is rapidly being adopted by those involved with environmental management and regulation, including governments, official and voluntary sector agencies, academic courses ... Read more

    $336.09 HKD

  • A Region in Transition

    North East England at the Millennium

    by John Tomaney, Neil Ward ...
    Series series Urban and Regional Planning and Development Series
    The UK has now joined a Europe-wide trend towards more devolved forms of government (e.g. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Assemblies). In the context of this general trend towards regionalizm as a focus for public policy and as a source of cultural and political identity, an interdisciplinary team from Newcastle University combine to analyze how this affects the North East of England. There ... Read more

    $515.90 HKD

  • Site Fights

    Divisive Facilities and Civil Society in Japan and the West

    by Daniel P. Aldrich ...
    One of the most vexing problems for governments is building controversial facilities that serve the needs of all citizens but have adverse consequences for host communities. Policymakers must decide not only where to locate often unwanted projects but also what methods to use when interacting with opposition groups. In Site Fights, Daniel P. Aldrich gathers quantitative evidence from close to five ... Read more

    $96.89 HKD