Sustainability Assessment Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Sustainability Assessment

   Pluralism, practice and progress

   Edited by Alan Bond, Angus Morrison-Saunders, Richard Howitt

   Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

   Sustainability Assessment is an increasingly important tool for informing planning and development decisions across the globe. Required by law in some countries, strongly recommended in others, a comprehensive analysis of why Sustainability Assessment is needed and ...

   Published July 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change

   Renewing Damaged Ecosystems

   By Stuart K. Allison

   What is a natural habitat? Who can define what is natural when species and ecosystems constantly change over time, with or without human intervention? When a polluted river or degraded landscape is restored from its damaged state, what is the appropriate outcome? With climate change now threatening...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
4. Designing Resilient Cities: A Guide to Good Practice

   (EP 103)

   By D. Rachel Lombardi, Joanne Leach, Chris Rogers

   This guide presents the Urban Futures Method to test the likely future performance of urban development and regeneration-related ‘sustainability solutions’ – actions taken today in the name of sustainability – in a series of possible future scenarios in the year 2050. If a proposed solution...

   Published May 10th 2012 by IHS BRE Press
5. The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations

   Managing Environmental Power

   By Michael Greenberg

   Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

   This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the Hudson River. For him,...

   Published January 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. Introduction To Environmental Impact Assessment

   4th Edition

   By John Glasson, Riki Therivel, Andrew Chadwick

   Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

   Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment provides students and practitioners with a clearly structured overview of the subject, as well as critical analysis and support for further studies. Written by three authors with extensive research, training and practical experience in EIA (...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. Future Climate Change

   Edited by Mark Maslin, Samuel Randalls

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

   In recent years, future climate change has increasingly been recognized as one of the most important issues of the twenty-first century, challenging the very structure of our global society. No longer just an abstruse scientific concern, it prompts difficult choices for both individuals and...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
8. Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment in the European Union

   The Espoo Convention and its Kiev Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment

   Edited by Simon Marsden, Timo Koivurova

   This book examines 'The Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context', which celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its adoption in 2011, and its 'Kiev Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment' which came into force in July 2010. In addition to...

   Published July 31st 2011 by Routledge
9. Handbook of Strategic Environmental Assessment

   Edited by Barry Sadler, Jiri Dusik, Thomas Fischer, Maria Partidario, Rob Verheem, Ralf Aschemann

   This authoritative handbook surveys the full breadth and depth of SEA, bringing together a range of international perspectives and insights on the theoretical, methodological and institutional dimensions and practical issues of the field. It then subjects this conventional wisdom to a critical...

   Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge
10. Strategic Environmental Assessment in Action

    2nd Edition

    By Riki Therivel

    This practical guide, written by a practitioner for practitioners, presents a coherent and straightforward 'how-to-do-it' approach to the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) process. Part one provides an overview of the aims, principles, advantages and problems of SEA as well as looking...

    Published May 25th 2010 by Routledge