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Essential Tools for Professionals
This year Routledge have a number of new books publishing that will be essential tools for the concerning professional. We have selected a few of the key titles below. For a full listing of our professional books click on the links to the catalogs below.

Architecture Catalog 2013 - Building and Construction Catalog 2013 - Landscape Catalog 2013 - Property and Real Estate Catalog 2013
Green Building Books from Routledge
This year Routledge have a number of books publishing on green buildings this year. We have selected a few of the key titles below. For a full listing of our sustainable building titles click on the links to the catalogs below.

Ecobuild 2013 Catalog - Building and Construction 2013 Catalog - Architecture 2013 catalog
Development and Planning Law, 4th Edition ( November 2012)

This book is the fourth edition of a highly regarded work widely used by students and practitioners of real estate management, development, surveying, valuation, planning and law. Written by two experienced experts on law and the UK planning system, Development and Planning Law is essential reading for anyone involved in building and construction, surveying, planning and development, and who needs to know the law as it relates to their everyday professional practice.

It has been extensively updated to reflect the most recent legal developments, including the 2011 Localism Act.

To order a copy of the book click here
Built Environment Titles for Professionals

Are you looking for new books and the latest research to enhance your practice?

Routledge Built Environment publishes a wide range of excellent titles in a variety of disciplines, aimed at supporting professionals across Architecture, Construction, Energy, Landscape, Property, and Urban Planning.

If you're interested in learning more, please take a moment to browse below for a sample of some of our many professional titles that are available.
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.

To order a copy of the book click here
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.