Environment & the City

This highly original work examines the rise of the urban food planning movement in the Global North and provides insights into the new relationship between cities and food which has developed over the past decade...

While most of the existing literature on community gardens and urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view or a rather dismissive approach, this collection investigates and reflects on the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of these initiatives...

This book brings together leading international researchers within a systematic comparative framework for evaluating the design, practices and processes of urban living labs to enable the comparative analysis of their potential and limits...

_x005F_x000D_ Urban Recycling Cooperatives explores the multiple narratives and interdisciplinary nature of waste studies, drawing attention to the pressing social, economic and environmental challenges related to waste management. The book asks questions such as: how do we define waste and our rela..

This book responds to the crises of sustainability in the world today by going back to basics. It makes four major contributions to thinking about and acting upon cities. It provides a means of reflexivity learning about urban sustainability in the process of working practically for positive social ..

This book investigates the implications of different developments in water technology and infrastructure for urban sustainability and the relationship between cities and nature...

This book goes beyond the ideology of the public versus private water regime debate, by focusing on the results of these types of initiatives to provide better water services, particularly in urban settings...