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  • A City of One's Own

    Blurring the Boundaries Between Private and Public

    by Sophie Body-Gendrot, Jacques Carré ...
    This book highlights the citizens' continuous participation in a wide range of urban affairs, especially outside institutional frameworks. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of French, British and American academics who examine the long and rich history of participation or partnership in British and American urban life (with additional reference to France), showing that both private ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Integration: Caribbean Sovereignty Revisited

    by Terri-Ann Gilbert Roberts ...
    In The Politics of Integration, Terri-Ann Gilbert-Roberts examines the validity of a highly charged statement Dr Ralph Gonsalves made in 2007, warning that CARICOM may expire in 2017 if its government structures are not addressed. To this end, the author examines the political culture, personalities and the quest for sovereignty in the Caribbean that have allowed CARICOM to falter in its efforts ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Small Change

    About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

    by Nabeel Hamdi ...
    What exactly is 'small change'?Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects.This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, small-scale actions. Written by Nabeel Hamdi, the guru of urban ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Militant Islam

    A sociology of characteristics, causes and consequences

    by Stephen Vertigans ...
    Militant Islam provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, comparisons with militancy in other religions, and their causes and consequences.The sociological concepts and theories examined in the book include those associated with social ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • People, Places and Landscapes

    Social Change in High Amenity Rural Areas

    by Richard S. Krannich, A. E. Luloff, Donald R. Field ...
    Series Book 14 - Landscape Series
    This volume is a cogent empirical analysis of the interplay between a region’s natural amenities and its socioeconomic evolution. It focuses on the rural sectors of America’s Intermountain West region, which lies between the Cascades and Sierra Nevada mountains to the west and the Rocky Mountains to the east. Coherently structured and meticulously detailed, it adds much to our understanding of the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Defence Reform in Croatia and Serbia--Montenegro

    by Timothy Edmunds ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    This book examines defence reform in Croatia and Serbia-Montenegro since 2000, focussing particularly on the institution and consolidation of democratic and civilian control of the armed forces, the reform of conflict-era forces structures, and the influence of the West including defence assistance and political conditionality. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Heritage, Pilgrimage and the Camino to Finisterre

    Walking to the End of the World

    Edited by Cristina Sánchez-Carretero ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents research concerning the effects of the Camino to Finisterre on the daily lives of the populations who live along the route, and the heritagization processes that exploitation of the Camino for tourism purposes involves. Rather than focusing on the route to Santiago de Compostela and the pilgrimage itself, it instead examines a peculiar part of the route, the Camino to Finisterre ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Landscape Balance and Landscape Assessment

    Edited by Rudolf Krönert, Uta Steinhardt, Martin Volk ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    During the last decades, landscape ecology has developed tremendously. It concerns both the theoretical basis and practical application. The authors follow a hierarchical approach that is inherent in landscape structures and processes as well as in planning practice. They show first approaches for the inclusion of factors of the landscape balance into planning procedures and new methods (GIS ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Coastal Change, Ocean Conservation and Resilient Communities

    Edited by Marcha Johnson, Amanda Bayley ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This collection of essays and design case studies explores a range of ideas and best practices for adapting to dynamic waterfront conditions while incorporating nature conservation in urbanized coastal areas. The editors have curated a selection of works contributed by leading practitioners in the fields of coastal science, community resilience, habitat restoration, sustainable landscape ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Experimenting for Sustainable Transport

    The Approach of Strategic Niche Management

    by Remco Hoogma, Rene Kemp, Johan Schot, Bernhard Truffer ...
    Series series Transport, Development and Sustainability Series
    Technological change is a central feature of modern societies and a powerful source for social change. There is an urgent task to direct these new technologies towards sustainability, but society lacks perspectives, instruments and policies to accomplish this. There is no blueprint for a sustainable future, and it is necessary to experiment with alternative paths that seem promising. Various new ... Read more

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  • Assessing Impact

    Handbook of EIA and SEA Follow-up

    Edited by Jos Arts, Angus Morrison-Saunders ...
    Written and edited by an authoritative team of internationally known experts in environmental impact assessment (EIA), this is the first book to present in a coherent manner the theory and practice of EIA and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) follow-up.Without some form of follow-up, the consequences of impact assessments and the environmental outcomes of development projects will remain ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Policies and Practices in Italian Welfare Housing

    Turin, up to the Current Neo-Liberal Approach and Social Innovation Practices

    by Nadia Caruso ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a European perspective on urban planning and spatial design by outlining housing policies in Southern Europe and their evolution. Through a unique case study on the city of Turin it explores social innovation and the relationship between the urban regeneration process and housing practices. The case study is a useful example in the debate about changing welfare arrangements in ... Read more

    $49.99 USD