Recent Professional Articles

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   Building Surveys 8th Edition (February 2013)

   Building Surveys has been a trusted guide for both students and professionals for over 30 years, evolving throughout its eight editions to address the challenges and responsibilities of the building surveying role. It covers everything needed for initial inspections such as equipment, know-how and procedures to writing an accurate report, making it indispensable to those practicing in or studying this field.

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2. 

   Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by Erika Weinthal, Jessica J. Troell and Mikiyasu Nakayama

   As a basic human need, the provision of safe water is among the highest priorities of government and humanitarian interventions during post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding. In the aftermath of war, water, sanitation, and infrastructure play a critical role in the recovery of livelihoods and economic development. Moreover, shared waters have great potential for interstate cooperation, assisting to rebuild trust following conflict and to prevent a return to conflict. This volume draws on studies from around the world to create a framework for understanding how water resources decisions and activities can facilitate or undermine peacebuilding in a post-conflict setting.

3. 

   Bioenergy Production by Anaerobic Digestion

   Edited by Nicholas E. Korres, Padraig O'Kiely, John A.H. Benzie and Jonathan S. West

   Interest in anaerobic digestions, the process of energy production through production of biogas, has increased rapidly in recent years. This book is one of the first to provide a broad introduction to anaerobic digestion and its potential as a viable means to turn agricultural crops or crop residues, animal and other organic waste, into biomethane.

4. 

   Diversifying Food and Diets

   Edited by Jessica Fanzo, Danny Hunter, Teresa Borelli and Federico Mattei

   This book aims to explore what the current state of knowledge is on the role of agricultural biodiversity in improving nutrition and food security. The book will examine and challenge some of the prevailing myths and assumptions to improving nutrition through agriculture mechanisms so as to identify the key research and implementation gaps.

5. 

   Disaster Management

   Edited by Alejandro López-Carresi, Maureen Fordham, Ben Wisner, Kelman Kelman and JC Gallard

   There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field. In disaster management this gap means that valuable lessons are not learned and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialog between theory and practice.

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   Community Biodiversity Management

   Edited by Walter Simon de Boef, Abishkar Subedi, Nivaldo Peroni, Marja Helen Thijssen and Elizabeth O'Keeffe

   The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the environments where this diversity originated or is being used, are issues which are high on the policy agenda. This book is the first to set out a clear overview of community biodiversity management (CBM) as an approach to meet social, economic and environmental change.

7. 

   Nature and Culture

   Edited by Sarah Pilgrim and Jules N. Pretty

   This book goes beyond divisive definitions and investigates the bridges linking biological and cultural diversity. The international team of authors explore the common drivers of loss, and argue that policy responses should target both forms of diversity in a novel integrative approach to conservation, thus reducing the gap between science, policy and practice.
    

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   Urban Energy Systems

   Edited by James Keirstead and Nilay Shah

   Energy demands of cities need to be met more sustainably. This book analyses the technical and social systems that satisfy these needs and asks how methods can be put into practice to achieve this.
   Drawing on analytical tools and case studies developed at Imperial College London, the book presents state-of-the-art techniques for examining urban energy systems as integrated systems of technologies, resources, and people
   
    

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   Land and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

   Edited by Jon Unruh and Rhodri Williams
   Series: Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management

   This book, by twenty-five authors, considers experiences with, and approaches to, post-conflict land issues in sixteen countries and in varied social and geographic settings. Highlighting key concepts that are important for understanding how to address land rights in the wake of armed conflict, the book provides a theoretical and practical framework for policy makers, researchers, practitioners, and students.

10. 

    Business Models for Renewable Energy in the Built Environment

    This project was initiated and funded by the IEA Implementing Agreement for Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (IEA-RETD).

    Business Models for Renewable Energy in the Built Environment provides insight to policy makers and market actors as to the ways that new and innovative business models (and/or policy measures) can stimulate the deployment of renewable energy technologies (RET) and energy efficiency (EE) measures in this field.

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