Environment & the City Books

New and Published Books

1. Ecological Public Health

   Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

   By Geof Rayner, Tim Lang

   What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles. This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Infrastructure Sustainability and Design

   Edited by Spiro Pollalis, Andreas Georgoulias, Stephen Ramos, Daniel Schodek

   You're overseeing a large-scale project, but you're not an engineering or construction specialist, and so you need an overview of the related sustainability concerns and processes. To introduce you to the main issues, experts from the fields of engineering, planning, public health, environmental...

   Published January 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. A Crisis of Waste?

   Understanding the Rubbish Society

   By Martin O'Brien

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book takes a measured look at the 'crisis of waste' in modern society and it does so historically, sociologically and critically. It tells stories about past and present ‘crises’ of waste and puts them in their appropriate social and industrial contexts. From Charles Dickens to Don...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
4. Designing for Zero Waste

   Consumption, Technologies and the Built Environment

   Edited by Steffen Lehmann, Robert Crocker

   Series: Earthscan Series on Sustainable Design

   Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas,...

   Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
5. Agriculture in Urban Planning

   Generating Livelihoods and Food Security

   Edited by Mark Redwood

   This volume, by graduate researchers working in urban agriculture, examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanizing global south, the book examines the contribution of urban agriculture and city...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
6. Rights of Passage

   Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

   By Nicholas Blomley

   Series: Social Justice

   Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Handbook of Urban Ecology

   Edited by Ian Douglas, David Goode, Mike Houck, Rusong Wang

   The birds, animals, insects, trees and plants encountered by the majority of the world’s people are those that survive in, adapt to, or are introduced to, urban areas. Some of these organisms give great pleasure; others invade, colonise and occupy neglected and hidden areas such as derelict land...

   Published December 16th 2010 by Routledge
8. Cities and Low Carbon Transitions

   Edited by Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castán Broto, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale...

   Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
9. Spatial Planning and Climate Change

   By Elizabeth Wilson, Jake Piper

   Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

   Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change. To do this, spatial planning must develop and implement new approaches. Elizabeth Wilson and Jake Piper explore a wide range of issues in this comprehensive book on the...

   Published August 15th 2010 by Routledge
10. Environment and the City

    By Peter Roberts, Joe Ravetz, Clive George

    Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts

    ‘Cities’ are now home for over half the world’s population – the hubs and gateways for capital, innovation, markets, resources and migration. On current trends the future may be a ‘planet of slums’ – many cities are places of poverty, crime and struggles for resources, where the ‘environment’ is...

    Published June 18th 2009 by Routledge