Environment & the City Books

New and Published Books

1. Cities and Climate Change

   By Harriet Bulkeley

   Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

   Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world’s cities. Now home to over half the world’s population, urban areas are significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. New Orleans and the Design Moment

   Edited by Jacob Wagner, Michael Frisch

   Following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, people began to discuss and visualize the ways in which the urban structure of the city could be reorganized. Rather than defining the disaster recovery process as simply a matter of rebuilding the existing city, these voices called for a...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. 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 November 20th 2012 by Routledge
5. Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance

   Spaces of Innovation, Places of Leadership

   By Sofie Bouteligier

   Series: Cities and Global Governance

   As a result of global dynamics—the increasing interconnection of people and places—innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet. This book is a timely study of the importance of these social transformations in our...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
6. Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia

   Green Sprawl

   Edited by Kirsten Valentine Cadieux, Laura Taylor

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   This book explores the role of the ideology of nature in producing urban and exurban sprawl. It examines the ironies of residential development on the metropolitan fringe, where the search for “nature” brings residents deeper into the world from which they are imagining their escape—of Federal...

   Published November 13th 2012 by Routledge
7. Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate

   By Alisdair McGregor, Cole Roberts, Fiona Cousins

   The Earth’s temperature has been rising. To limit catastrophic outcomes, the international scientific community has set a challenging goal of no more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) average temperature rise. Economists agree we will save trillions of dollars by acting early. But...

   Published October 25th 2012 by Routledge
8. Quality of Life and Public Management

   Redefining Development in the Local Environment

   By John Whitelegg

   Quality of Life and Public Management explores the possibility for a dramatic and significant improvement in quality of life for all population groups and sub-groups in the UK. Strongly evidence-based, the book draws on case study data and comparisons into local and central government structure,...

   Published August 1st 2012 by Routledge
9. Local Climate Change and Society

   Edited by M. A. Mohamed Salih

   Series: Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

   Although the impacts of climate change are certainly global, its manifestations and subsequent consequences begin locally. Local Climate Change and Society examines how climate change has altered society’s relationship with the environment and particularly local communities to adapt to and mitigate...

   Published July 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Sustainability

    Duty or Opportunity for Business?

    By Michael Norton

    Businesses are nowadays expected to act sustainably; it is also in both society’s and the company’s own interest if opportunities to develop more sustainable products or services can be fully grasped. Leading international companies may already be moving in this direction, but many (especially...

    Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge