Sustainability Assessment Books

New and Published Books

1. Guidelines for Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment

   3rd Edition

   By Landscape Institute, I.E.M.A.

   Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment (LVIA) can be key to planning decisions by identifying the effects of new developments on views and on the landscape itself. This fully revised edition of the industry standard work on LVIA presents an authoritative statement of the principles of assessment....

   Published April 2nd 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. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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