Environment & the City

This book provides the standards for equitable bicycle advocacy, policy, and planning by defining and operationalizing bicycle justice. In synthesizing the projects of critical cultural studies, transportation justice, and planning as applied practice, this book reveals the relevance of civil rights..

This book provides the standards for equitable bicycle advocacy, policy, and planning by defining and operationalizing bicycle justice. In synthesizing the projects of critical cultural studies, transportation justice, and planning as applied practice, this book reveals the relevance of civil rights..

This book provides an overview of the problems related to water pollution in China. It describes how and why China has ended up in such a dire situation and what the government is doing to address the problem and the difficulties it has encountered in attempting to reduce the pollution...

This book provides an overview of the problems related to water pollution in China. It describes how and why China has ended up in such a dire situation and what the government is doing to address the problem and the difficulties it has encountered in attempting to reduce the pollution...

This volume presents experience and evidence based "state of the art" chapters on the key dimensions and challenges of urban food systems and types of intra- and peri- urban agriculture...

This book explores the ways in which cities are both the biggest threat to sustainability, and the most powerful tool to get us to sustainable development. Providing population projections for the world’s larger cities and a hierarchy of sustainable cities, the author develops two new tools: (i) a c..

This book provides an in-depth, interdisciplinary, international and comparative examination of the relationship between knowledge and urban development in the contemporary era. It examines how different cities have sought to realize knowledge-based urban development...

This book reveals in a comparative perspective the unique profile of European cities as generators of sustainable development, and the special contribution of culture to this process. It addresses both a deficit of attention to the role of small and medium-sized cities in European sustainable develo..

Energy, Cities and Sustainability..

As city dwellers begin to outnumber country dwellers globally, this book traces the evolution of the modern city, the energy sources that power it and the motivations behind increasing urbanisation. It examines changing energy use across history, analysing the origins and significance of the Industr..

This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity...

Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda...