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  • Urban Nature

    Enriching Belonging, Wellbeing and Bioculture

    Edited by Michelle L. Cocks, Charlie M. Shackleton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urban Ecology
    This book showcases the diversity of ways in which urban residents from varying cultural contexts view, interact, engage with and give meaning to urban nature, aiming to counterbalance the dominance of Western depictions and values of urban nature and design.Urban nature has up to now largely been defined, planned and managed in a way that is heavily dominated by Western understandings, values and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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  • Untamed Urbanisms

    Edited by Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Read more

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  • Connecting Worlds: A Memoir on Art, Anthropology and Activism

    by Daniel Buckles ...
    Connecting Worlds reflects on the author's journey of becoming and being a researcher engaged in the work of social change. Participation in the bush life of the 1970s Yukon, exposure to the complex culture of Mexico and a battle with cancer at the age of thirty-two prompted Daniel Buckles to work with people living on the edge: Honduran peasants inventing new agricultural technologies for ... Read more

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  • Slow Tourism

    Experiences and Mobilities

    Edited by Dr. Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell, Dr. Erica Wilson ...
    Series Book 54 - Aspects of Tourism
    Bringing together scholars from the areas of tourism, leisure and cultural studies, eco-humanities and tourism management, this book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism. The book explores the range of travel experiences that are part of growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time, environmental and cultural sustainability, as well as the embodied experience of place. Slow ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change

    Intersections of race, class and gender

    Edited by Phoebe Godfrey, Denise Torres ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    Sociological literature tends to view the social categories of race, class and gender as distinct and has avoided discussing how multiple intersections inform and contribute to experiences of injustice and inequity. This limited focus is clearly inadequate.Systemic Crises of Global Climate Change is an edited volume of 49 international, interdisciplinary contributions addressing global climate ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • New Cultural Landscapes

    Edited by Maggie Roe, Ken Taylor ...
    While historical and protected landscapes have been well studied for years, the cultural significance of ordinary landscapes is now increasingly recognised. This groundbreaking book discusses how contemporary cultural landscapes can be, and are, created and recognised.The book challenges common concepts of cultural landscapes as protected or ‘special’ landscapes that include significant buildings ... Read more

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  • Architecture for Rapid Change and Scarce Resources

    by Sumita Singha ...
    Architects, development practitioners and designers are working in a global environment and issues such as environmental and cultural sustainability matter more than ever. Past interactions and interventions between developed and developing countries have often been unequal and inappropriate. We now need to embrace fresh design practices based on respect for diversity and equality, participation ... Read more

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  • Lifestyle Migration

    Expectations, Aspirations and Experiences

    by Michaela Benson ...
    Relatively affluent individuals from various corners of the globe are increasingly choosing to migrate, spurred on by the promise of a better and more fulfilling way of life within their destination. Despite its increasing scale, migration academics have yet to consolidate and establish lifestyle migration as a subfield of theoretical enquiry, until now. This volume offers a dynamic and holistic ... Read more

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  • Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia

    Flows across Boundaries

    Edited by Vishal Narain, Dik Roth ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the implications of urbanization in South Asia for water (in-) security in the peri-urban spaces of Dhaka and Khulna in Bangladesh, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune in India, and Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The book looks into specifically peri-urban water security issues in a context of rapid urbanization and social-environmental changes, including ... Read more

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  • Green Harms and Crimes

    Critical Criminology in a Changing World

    Edited by R. Sollund ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The book presents discussions of the application of Stan Cohen's theories alongside empirical contributions in the fields of critical and green criminology. Taken together, the authors critically address harms and crimes against the environment, as well as against human and nonhuman victims. ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

  • Eco-Homes

    People, Place and Politics

    by Jenny Pickerill ...
    Series series Just Sustainabilities
    It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change. This is the first book to comprehensively explore eco-housing from a geographical, social and political perspective. It starts from the premise that we already know how to build good eco-houses and we already have the technology to retrofit existing housing. ... Read more

    $37.79 CAD

  • Clan and Tribal Perspectives on Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainability

    Indigenous Stories From Around the Globe

    Edited by James C. Spee, Adela J. McMurray, Mark D. McMillan ...
    From the Indigenous perspective, sustainability must be understood as a means of survival. In a climate of in-migration, clan and tribal communities have been forced to build sustainable solutions together to protect their sovereignty, recognition and mutual respect.In the midst of a global pandemic that threatens the economic and social well-being of millions of people, this edited collection ... Read more

    $122.09 CAD