In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. ...
Baltimore, like many other cities around the globe, is redesigning local government policy and programs in order to become a more sustainable city. Sustainability, ...
Building on the success of its second edition, the third edition of the Sustainable Urban Development Reader provides a generous selection of classic and ...
Integrated Water Resource Planning provides practical, evidence-based guidance on water resource planning. In a time of heightened awareness of ecosystem needs, climate change, and ...
This new and expanded edition builds upon the first edition's powerful multi-perspective approach and breath of coverage. A truly comprehensive introduction to sustainable development, ...
Seventeenth-century Europe saw a fruitful creative exchange between the arts and contemporaneous scientific thought. "Mapping Spaces" traces the multifaceted dimensions of this exchange with ...
Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession. Using examples of four ...
Large modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three to four percent of the world's land ...
A new taxonomy of placemaking is needed; concerns have been expressed about the professionalization of placemaking through the proliferation of standards, zoning codes, and ...
Some cities avoid change. Others accept it. Atlanta pursues it. More than any other major U.S. city, Atlanta regularly reinvents itself. From the Civil ...
The suburbanization of North America has been was one of the most significant social, political, and cultural transformations of the twentieth century. Originally seen ...
This book reflects on how the economies, social characteristics, ways of life and global relationships of rural areas of Europe have changed in recent ...
Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned economies (Bulgaria, Czech ...
Globalization affects urban communities in many ways. One of its manifestations is increased intercity competition, which compels cities to increase their attractiveness in terms ...
The onset of the global crisis has emphasised the persistence of substantial differences in development and social progress within the euro area. The specific ...
The social dynamics of innovation networks captures the important role of trust, social capital, institutions and norms and values in the creation of knowledge ...
