Planning and Sustainability Books

New and Published Books

1. Transport Planning for Third World Cities (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Harry T. Dimitriou

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Cities within the developing world experience a form of urban development which is different to those in more industrialised countries. Rates of growth are usually much more dramatic, housing and transport are often provided informally, and institutional support for urban management is also much...

   Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint

   Edited by Robert Vale, Brenda Vale

   According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth’s capacity to supply humanity’s needs. This is an unsustainable position. This book does not focus on the problem but on the solution, by showing what it is like to live within a fair earth share...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. Water Quality Policy and Management in Asia

   Edited by Cecilia Tortajada

   Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

   Asia's 48 countries have an estimated 1.757 billion urban population and 2.4 billion people in rural areas (or approximately 60 per cent of the global population). Divided into central, eastern, southern, south-eastern and western regions, the continent is also extremely heterogeneous in terms of...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
4. State of the World's Cities 2012/2013

   Prosperity of Cities

   By Un Habitat

   The city is the home of prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions, aspirations and other material and immaterial aspects of life are realized, providing contentment and happiness. It is a&...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
5. Urban Ecosystems

   Understanding the Human Environment

   By Robert A. Francis, Michael A. Chadwick

   With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. Consisting of green space and the built environment, they harbour a wide range of species, yet are not well understood. This book aims...

   Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia

   By Pitou van Dijck

   This book analyses the potential socio-economic and environmental impacts of the Initiative for Regional Infrastructure Integration in South America (IIRSA), a continent-wide programme. IIRSA aims at facilitating intra-regional trade and at improving trade and transport links with world markets....

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Local Food and Community Development

   Edited by Gary Paul Green, Rhonda Phillips

   Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series

   Food has become an essential component in community development practice. Whether in reference to building a local or regional food system or addressing food insecurity, food has become a focus in community development approaches in many localities. Farmers markets, community gardens,...

   Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
8. Creating Smart-er Cities

   Edited by Mark Deakin

   Drawing upon the smart experiences of "world class" cities in North America, Canada and Europe, this book provides the evidence to show how entrepreneurship-based and market-dependent representations of knowledge production are now being replaced with a community of policy makers, academic leaders,...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
9. Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development

   Edited by Harald Mieg, Klaus Töpfer

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development

   Which new institutions do we need in order to trigger local- and global sustainable urban development? Are cities the right starting points for implementing sustainability policies? If so, what are the implications for city management? This book reflects the situation of cities in the context of...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
10. Transforming Urban Transport

    The Ethics, Politics and Practices of Sustainable Mobility

    Edited by Nicholas Low

    Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world addicted to automobility. It highlights the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuel path and gives viable technological alternatives which can be deployed to find a solution. Changes in urban mobility and transport...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge