Paperbacks Direct: Environment & the City

Edited by Jacob A. 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…

Paperback – 2015-07-23
Routledge

By Carlos Wing-Hung Lo, Shui-Yan Tang

During the past three decades of rapid industrial growth, China has suffered from devastating environmental degradation. Most scholarly and popular publications have painted a rather pessimistic picture about the worrisome trend. Yet a somewhat more optimistic view has emerged in the past decade…

Paperback – 2015-06-25
Routledge

By Erik Bichard

People organising to protect their environment is not a new phenomenon, but the groups that have been pushing for environmental change since the 1970s have not convinced sufficient numbers make sustainable decisions or to lead sustainable lives. Governments have serially failed to do the job at the…

Paperback – 2015-05-22
Routledge
Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

By Jin Xue

Economic Growth and Sustainable Housing: An Uneasy Relationship critically discusses the possibilities of decoupling environmental degradation from economic growth. The author refutes the belief in combining perpetual economic growth with long-term environmental sustainability based on the premise…

Paperback – 2015-05-22
Routledge
Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)

By Rory Shand

Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing and education are therefore needed more than ever to help regenerate the social and urban environment. Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action uses detailed case…

Paperback – 2015-04-27
Routledge
Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

Edited by Mohamed A. Salih

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…

Paperback – 2014-12-15
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research

By Chris C. Park

This title, first published in 1987, provides an authoritative account of both the science and the politics of acid rain. Chris Park places the debates surrounding acid rain in context, and examines the full implications of scientific studies and the effects of acid rain on surface waters, soils…

Paperback – 2014-12-04
Routledge
Routledge Revivals

By Sofie Bouteligier

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…

Paperback – 2014-09-11
Routledge
Cities and Global Governance

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,…

Paperback – 2014-07-01
Routledge

Edited by K. Valentine Cadieux, Laura Taylor

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…

Paperback – 2013-11-08
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Human Geography

Edited by Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castán Broto, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin

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…

Paperback – 2012-11-21
Routledge
Routledge Studies in Human Geography

By Martin O'Brien

This book takes a measured look at the 'crisis of waste' in modern society and it does so historically, sociologically and critically. It tells stories about past and present ‘crises’ of waste and puts them in their appropriate social and industrial contexts. From Charles Dickens to Don…

Paperback – 2011-12-09
Routledge
Routledge Advances in Sociology