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![Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities]()
Elgar Companion to Sustainable Cities
Edited by Daniel A. Mazmanian, Hilda Blanco
Against a backdrop of unprecedented levels of urbanization, 21st century cities across the globe share concerns for the challenges they face. This Companion provides a framework for understanding the city as a critical building block for...eBook:Find out more$53.56
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Handbook on Green Infrastructure
Edited by Danielle Sinnett, Nicholas Smith, Sarah Burgess
Green infrastructure is widely recognised as a valuable resource in our towns and cities and it is therefore crucial to understand, create, protect and manage this resource. This Handbook sets the context for green infrastructure as a me...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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China’s Urban Century
Edited by François Gipouloux
The achievements of China’s urbanization should not be evaluated solely in terms of adequate infrastructures, but also in their ability to implement sound governance practices to ensure social, environmental and economic development. Thi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on Climate Governance
Edited by Karin Bäckstrand, Eva Lövbrand
The 2009 United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen is often represented as a watershed in global climate politics, when the diplomatic efforts to negotiate a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol failed and was replaced by a fr...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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![The Political Economy of Sustainable Development]()
The Political Economy of Sustainable Development
Timothy Cadman, Lauren Eastwood, Federico Lopez-Casero Michaelis, Tek N. Maraseni, Jamie Pittock, Tapan Sarker
Since the Rio ‘Earth’ Summit of 1992, sustainable development has become the major policy response to tackling global environmental degradation, from climate change to loss of biodiversity and deforestation. Market instruments such as em...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Healthy Cities
Chinmoy Sarkar, Chris Webster, John Gallacher
Mounting scientific evidence generated over the past decade highlights the significant role of our cities’ built environments in shaping our health and well-being. In this book, the authors conceptualize the ‘urban health niche’ as a nov...eBook:Find out more$53.56
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Energy for the 21st Century
Susan L. Sakmar
Countries around the world are increasingly looking to liquefied natural gas (LNG) – natural gas that has been cooled until it forms a transportable liquid – to meet growing energy demand. Energy for the 21st Century provides critical in...eBook:Find out more$53.56
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Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions
Clement A. Tisdell
This innovative book identifies socio-economic processes which transform the stock of genetic resources and ecosystems and discusses sustainability issues raised by variations in this stock. It focuses subsequently on the socio-economics...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![International Perspectives on Industrial Ecology]()
International Perspectives on Industrial Ecology
Edited by Pauline Deutz, Donald I. Lyons, Jun Bi
With its high-level focus on industrial ecology-related policies such as circular economy and industrial symbiosis, this book provides a timely analysis of the industrial ecology experience worldwide. Editors Pauline Deutz, Donald I. Lyo...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on International Energy Law
Edited by Kim Talus
International energy law is an elusive but important concept. There is no body of law called ‘international energy law’, nor is there any universally accepted definition for it, yet many specialised areas of international law have a dire...eBook:Find out more$67.96
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The Domestic Politics of Global Climate Change
Edited by Guri Bang, Arild Underdal, Steinar Andresen
Why are some countries more willing and able than others to engage in climate change mitigation? The Domestic Politics of Global Climate Change compiles insights from experts in comparative politics and international relations to describ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Sustainable Development in International Law Making and Trade]()
Sustainable Development in International Law Making and Trade
Elisabeth Bürgi Bonanomi
This timely book provides an accessible insight into how the concept of sustainable development can be made operational through its translation into legal terms. Understood as a multidimensional legal principle, sustainable development f...eBook:Find out more$40.00
