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  • Putting Skill to Work

    How to Create Good Jobs in Uncertain Times

    by Nichola Lowe ...
    An argument for reimagining skill in a way that can extend economic opportunity to workers at the bottom of the labor market.America has a jobs problem--not enough well-paying jobs to go around and not enough clear pathways leading to them. Skill development is critical for addressing this employment crisis, but there are many unresolved questions about who has skill, how it is attained, and whose ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Social Transformation for Climate Change

    A New Framework for Democracy

    by Nicholas Low ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    This book argues that social transformation is both necessary and possible if democracies are to respond effectively to the climate crisis without social collapse.Climate transformation and social transformation are intimately connected. Understanding how to address climate change requires a historical approach both to the climate and to our collective institutions of humanity. Drawing on the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Planning, Politics and the State

    Political Foundations of Planning Thought

    by Nicholas Low ...
    First Published in 1990. John Maynard Keynes once made the bold prediction that the three- hour work day would prevail for his grandchildren's generation. Seventy years later, the question of working time is as pertinent as it was at the inception of the 40-hour week. Not until now, however, has there been a global comparative analysis of working time laws, policies and actual working hours. ... Read more

    $50.83 CAD

  • The Green City

    Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs

    by Nicholas Low, Brendon Gleeson, Ray Green, Darko Radovic ...
    A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Justice, Society and Nature

    An Exploration of Political Ecology

    by Brendan Gleeson, Nicholas Low ...
    Justice, Society and Nature examines the moral response which the world must make to the ecological crisis if there is to be real change in the global society and economy to favour ecological integrity. From its base in the idea of the self, through principles of political justice, to the justice of global institutions, the authors trace the layered structure of the philosophy of justice as it ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Institutional Barriers to Sustainable Transport

    by Carey Curtis, Nicholas Low ...
    In a world seeking to tackle global environmental problems such as climate change, the importance of local and national institutional change to deal most effectively with these issues is critical. This book presents an investigation of the institutional barriers preventing the development of a new vision for urban transport compatible with these realities and in those terms 'sustainable'. Through ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Transforming Urban Transport

    The Ethics, Politics and Practices of Sustainable Mobility

    Edited by Nicholas Low ...
    Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must be changed from auto-based mobility to systems of sustainable transport in which public transport, ... Read more

    $309.18 CAD

  • Global Ethics and Environment

    Edited by Nicholas Low ...
    As global capitalism expands and reaches ever-further corners of the world, practical problems continue to escalate and repercussions become increasingly serious and irreversible. These practical problems carry with them equally important and ethical issues.Global Ethics and Environment explores these ethical issues from a range of perspectives and using a wide range of case studies. Chapters ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • The Vocational Quest

    New Directions in Education and Training

    by Helen Connell, Nicholas Lowe, Malcolm Skilbeck, Kirsten Tait ...
    Government attempts in recent years to create a national system of vocational education and training have marked a profound shift both in educational policy and in underlying concepts of what education is for. Relations between schools and the working world are changing all the time and the implementation of ideas of vocationalism has forced a blurring of the time-honoured boundaries between ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

    by Thomas C. Buechele, Nicholas C. Lowe ...
    Series series Campus History
    In 2016, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) reached its 150th year. What sustains an institution is sometimes extraordinary, sometimes mundane, and often simply a matter of the sheer will of those involved. An unparalleled museum school, SAIC embodies something greater than the individuals who have passed through it, and yet it has also depended upon the unique and special nature of ... Read more

    $17.91 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Consuming Cities

    The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio

    by Ingemar Elander, Brendan Gleeson, Rolf Lidskog, Nicholas Low ...
    This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a difference.Consuming Cities examines this impact using case studies from around the world including: the USA, Japan, Germany, the UK, China, India, ... Read more

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  • Modern Developments in Catalysis

    Volume 2

    by Graham Hutchings, Matthew Davidson, Richard Catlow, Christopher Hardacre, Nicholas Turner, Charlotte Williams, Adrian Mulholland, Josie Goodall, Chris Mitchell ...
    The UK Catalysis Hub is a consortium of universities working together on fundamental and applied research to find out how catalysts work and to improve their effectiveness. The contribution of catalysis to manufacturing contributes to almost 40% of global GDP, making development and innovation within the field integral to industry.Modern Developments in Catalysis, Volume 2 provides a review and ... Read more

    $164.99 CAD