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  • Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

    Edited by Binti Singh, Tania Berger, Manoj Parmar ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration, livelihood, and public health challenges result from inadequacies in the hard city—urban assets, such as land, infrastructure, and housing, and asserts that these challenges and escalating ... Read more

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  • Smart City in India

    Urban Laboratory, Paradigm or Trajectory?

    by Binti Singh, Manoj Parmar ...
    This book is a critical reflection on the Smart City Mission in India. Drawing on ethnographic data from across Indian cities, this volume assesses the transformative possibilities and limitations of the program. It examines the ten core infrastructural elements that make up a city, including water, electricity, waste, mobility, housing, environment, health, and education, and lays down the basic ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Resilience and Southern Urbanism

    Towards a New Paradigm

    Edited by Binti Singh, Manoj Parmar ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    This volume studies the urbanisation trends of medium-sized cities of India to develop a typology of urban resilience. It looks at historic second-tier cities like Nashik, Bhopal, Kolkata and Agra, which are laboratories of smart experiments and are subject to technological ubiquity, with rampant deployment of smart technologies and dashboard governance.The book examines the traditional values and ... Read more

    $42.59 CAD

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    The contribution of social work and social policy

    Edited by Aila-Leena Matthies, Kati Närhi ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    This groundbreaking book both explains and expands the growing debate on ecological (environmental) social work at the global level. In order to achieve this, the book strengthens the environmental paradigm in social work and social policy by undertaking further research on theoretical and conceptual clarification as well as distinct reflections on its practical directions.Divided into five parts: ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Environment and Sustainable Development

    Perspectives and Issues

    Edited by Manish K. Verma ...
    Series series Towards Sustainable Futures
    This volume provides a comprehensive account of the linkages between environment and sustainable development in society from an interdisciplinary perspective. With its case studies from across the world, including countries such as India, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the United States, Croatia, Italy, Brazil, Japan, and Kenya, it explores critical environmental issues concerning energy ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Cities by Design

    The Social Life of Urban Form

    by Fran Tonkiss ...
    Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments.With cities taking a growing share of the global population, urban forms and urban experience are crucial for understanding social injustice, economic ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Historic Urban Landscape

    Managing Heritage in an Urban Century

    by Francesco Bandarin, Ron van Oers ...
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers ... Read more

    $91.00 CAD

  • Mindfully Green

    A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking

    by Stephanie Kaza ...
    With all the attention on living sustainably, the one thing missing from the conversation is how to find a personal connection with green living that will sustain us on our green path. While practical approaches to an eco-responsible lifestyle offer important first steps, it is critical that we ground these actions in broader understanding so that we can effect real change in the world.In this ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Urban Geography

    A Global Perspective

    by Michael Pacione ...
    Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance – for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of economic production, distribution and exchange; in the structuring of social reproduction and cultural life; and in the allocation and exercise of power. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Thriving Beyond Sustainability

    Pathways to a Resilient Society

    by Andres R. Edwards ...
    Every fifteen seconds on our Earth, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume eighty-five million barrels of oil and pump twenty-three million tons of carbon dioxide into an already warming atmosphere. But against this bleak backdrop, beacons of hope shine from thousands of large and small initiatives taking place everywhere ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Introducing Just Sustainabilities

    Policy, Planning, and Practice

    by Julian Agyeman ...
    Series series Just Sustainabilities
    This unique and insightful text offers an exploration of the origins and subsequent development of the concept of just sustainability.Introducing Just Sustainabilities discusses key topics, such as food justice, sovereignty and urban agriculture; community, space, place(making) and spatial justice; the democratization of our streets and public spaces; how to create culturally inclusive spaces; ... Read more

    $37.09 CAD

  • Pursuing Sustainability

    A Guide to the Science and Practice

    by Pamela Matson, William C. Clark, Krister Par Andersson ...
    An essential guide to sustainable development for students and practitionersSustainability is a global imperative and a scientific challenge like no other. This concise guide provides students and practitioners with a strategic framework for linking knowledge with action in the pursuit of sustainable development, and serves as an invaluable companion to more narrowly focused courses dealing with ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD