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Creating Effective Public Spaces
Convivial Urban Spaces argues that successful urban public spaces are an essential part of a sustainable built environment. Without them we are likely to drift into an increasingly private and polarized society, with all the problems that ensue. http://www.styluspub.com/books/bookdetail.aspx?productid=163186
Heat Islands
Understanding and Mitigating Heat in Urban Areas
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Nanotechnology
Risk, Ethics and Law
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Partnerships for Empowerment
Participatory Research for Community-based Natural Resource Management
This book analyzes the current state of the art of participatory research in Community-based Natural Resource Management. Its chapters and case studies examine recent experiences in collaborative forest management, harvesting impacts on forest shrubs, watershed restoration in Native American communities, civic environmentalism in an urban neighborhood and other topics.
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Poverty Reduction that Works
Experience of Scaling Up Development Success
This book looks at twenty of the most innovative case studies of poverty reduction and MDG localization from 15 countries—covering diverse issues ranging from housing and tourism to socio-economic empowerment of women to health insurance to markets for livestock produce.
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The Power of Sustainable Thinking
How to Create a Positive Future for the Climate, the Planet, Your Organization and Your Life
In this new book, renowned sustainability, business, and organizational change specialist Bob Doppelt provides both an easy to understand explanation and practical methods for transforming our climate-damaging, unsustainable ways into sustainable thinking and behaviors. Doppelt makes the case that global warming and today's other ecological and socioeconomic problems are not technical in nature, rather they represent a crisis of thought.
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Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity
Science, Ethics, Economics and Law
Written and edited by an international collection of the world’s most respected authorities in the area, the book considers the extent to which human rights—such as the right to food, energy, health, clean air or water—can be reconciled with the principles of ecological integrity. The issue is approached from a variety of economic, legal, ethical and ecological standpoints, providing an essential resource for researchers, students and those in government or business in a wide range of disciplines.
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Risk Governance
Coping with Uncertainty in a Complex World
This book, for the first time, brings together and updates the ground-breaking work of renowned risk theorist and researcher Ortwin Renn and integrates the major disciplinary concepts of risk in the social, engineering, and natural sciences. The book unfolds through consecutive acts, opening with the context of risk handling and flowing through the core topics of assessment, evaluation, perception, management, and communication, culminating in a look at the transition from risk management to risk governance and a glimpse at a new understanding of risk in (post)modern societies. http://www.styluspub.com/books/bookdetail.aspx?productid=130296