Political Science : City Planning & Urban Development

Examines the role that brownfields redevelopment is playing and can play in our quest for sustainability, focusing on efforts in the US and Canada. This book looks at how brownfields are used as spaces for developing an array of residential, recreational, more...

Price: $130.00

This book describes all the principal methods of arranging letting building contracts for conservation work. It also covers contractor selection, the use of directly employed labour, and contractual considerations. more...

Price: $154.95

Winner of Choice Magazine - Outstanding Academic Titles for 2007 'At last a business guide that's really about Business and a sustainability guide that's really about Sustainability. In this book Hitchcock and Willard cut through the polarizing debates and the all or nothing arguments with a stepwise approach that clearly articulates how businesses can improve their performance without it being at the expense of those around them.' Christopher Sheldon co-author of Environmental Management Systems (3rd edition) 'At a time when 'big' business is beginning to mean 'sustainable' business small businesses can easily get left out. Hitchcock and Willard have filled this vital gap admirably. This is a practical guide dotted with heartening examples of helping small businesses to adopt their sustainability mantles. An optimistic read.' Tim O'Riordan Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia UK 'People are frequently frustrated by the process of applying the broad theoretical concept of sustainability to concrete and practical applications. Hitchcock and Willard are uniquely skilled at helping organizations translate vision into action. They make sustainability accessible and understand how to leverage organizational dynamics to make a journey to sustainability possible.' Rick Woodward Corporate Director of Operations and Sustainability Coastwide Laboratories USA Sustainability promises both reduced environmental impacts and real cash savings for any organization - be it a business non-profit/NGO or government department. This easy-to-use manual has been written by top business consultants specifically to help managers business owners organizational leaders and aspiring environmental managers/sustainability coordinators to improve their organization's environmental social and economic performance. The authors demystify 'sustainability' untangle the plethora of sustainability fram more...

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The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level from local to global that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social spatial and economic characteristics and dynamics. It goes on to evaluate the principal policy responses to the slum challenge of the last few decades. From this assessment the immensity of the challenges that slums pose is clear. Almost 1 billion people live in slums the majority in the developing world where over 40 per cent of the urban population are slum dwellers. The number is growing and will continue to increase unless there is serious and concerted action by municipal authorities governments civil society and the international community. This report points the way forward and identifies the most promising approaches to achieving the United Nations Millennium Declaration targets for improving the lives of slum dwellers by scaling up participatory slum upgrading and poverty reduction programmes. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. Written in clear language and supported by informative graphics case studies and extensive statistical data it will be an essential tool and reference for researchers academics planners public authorities and civil society organizations around the world. more...

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Social enterprises are entering a new phase of consolidation after overcoming various challenges over the last 10 years in their efforts to foster sustainable local development, help create local wealth and jobs, and fight social exclusion. This book contains recommendations for national and local policy makers and presents a set of international best practices based on new legislation that has been enacted, novel frontiers that have opened up, and support and financial tools that have been developed. more...

Price: $56.00