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by G. J. Lau
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
I spent a couple of years writing a blog on climate change called Planet Restart, the idea being we needed to push the "restart" button to begin a new way of thinking about how we should be living on the planet. I did it for my children and grandchildren because I knew in my bones that the...
Only One Earth
The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows...
A Living Past
Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives...
Cultivating Food Justice
Race, Class, and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Documents how racial and social inequalities are built into our food system, and how communities are creating environmentally sustainable and socially just alternatives.
Popularized by such best-selling authors as Michael Pollan, Barbara Kingsolver, and Eric Schlosser, a growing food movement...
Humanity's Footprint
Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
For the first time in history, humans have exceeded the sustaining capacity of Earth's global ecosystems. Our expanding footprint has tremendous momentum, and the insidious explosion of human impact creates a shockwave that threatens ecosystems worldwide for decades-possibly centuries.
Walter...
by Jiansu Mao, Chunhui Li, Yuansheng Pei
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
This textbook systematically addresses why and how Circular Economy should be developed and practiced by employing a Discussion and Research (D&R) teaching method. This method allows us to show the whole process of academic research, from formulating the key questions, to methodology design, and...
by Professor Stephen Ward
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2004
Fully revised and thoroughly updated, the Second Edition of Planning and Urban Change provides an accessible yet richly detailed account of British urban planning.
Stephen Ward demonstrates how urban planning can be understood through three categories: ideas - urban planning history as the...
Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization
New strategies for new challenges—with a focus on the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book equips readers with a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by radical socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural changes due to globalization and describes effective, sustainable solutions to these challenges. The focus is especially on the rapid urbanization processes in countries...
Handbook of Green Building Design and Construction
LEED, BREEAM, and Green Globes
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Packed with conceptual sketches and photos, real world case studies and green construction details, Handbook of Green Building Design and Construction provides a wealth of practical guidelines and essential insights that will facilitate the design of green buildings. Written in an easy to understand...
Ten Technologies to Save the Planet
Energy Options for a Low-Carbon Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
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Energy Options for a Low-Carbon Future Practical solutions for meeting our energy demands while combatting climate change on a large scale, from ""the David Suzuki of Britain.""
Respected, authoritative, award-winning author Chris Goodall adds new material...
Materials and the Environment
Eco-informed Material Choice
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Materials and the Environment: Eco-Informed Material Choice, Second Edition, is the first book devoted solely to the environmental aspects of materials and their selection, production, use and disposal, by one of the world's foremost materials authorities. It explores human dependence on materials...
Local Governments and Climate Change
Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
Global warming is changing the world as we know it. Climate change can have catastrophic impacts in numerous cities across the world. It is time for us to react – quickly and effectively. The European Community (EC) has been leading the fight against climate change, making it one of its top priorities....
by Stevan Popov, Sinisa Dodic, Mirjana Radovanović (Golusin)
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
While the last few decades have witnessed incredible leaps forward in the technology of energy production, technological innovation can only be as transformative as its implementation and management allows. The burgeoning fields of renewable, efficient and sustainable energy have moved past experimentation...
Environmental Solutions
Environmental Problems and the All-inclusive global, scientific, political, legal, economic, medical, and engineering bases to solve them
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
In our changing world, society demands more comprehensive and thoughtful solutions from environmental engineers, environmental consultants and scientists dealing with the degradation of our environment. Lead by Nelson Nemerow and Franklin Agardy, experts in business, academia, government and practice...