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The Handbook of Community Safety Gender and Violence Prevention: Practical Planning Tools

by Carolyn Whitzman

Violence and insecurity are among the most important issues facing communities in the 21st century. Both family violence and community violence are rapidly rising in the urbanizing nations of the ?South?, and...


The Intercultural City: Planning for Diversity Advantage

by Charles Landry & Phil Wood

In a world of increasing mobility, how people of different cultures live together is a key issue of our age, especially for those responsible for planning and running cities. New thinking is needed on how diverse...


The Limits to Travel: How Far Will You Go?

by David Metz

As affluence grows, it gets easier to travel faster and further. But research shows that, despite this, the average travel time in all societies remains steady at roughly an hour a day. The implication is that...


Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil

by Richard Gilbert & Anthony Pearl

Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil. These challenges include an early peak in world oil production...


Transport for Suburbia: Beyond the Automobile Age

by Paul Mees

The need for effective public transport is greater than ever in the 21st century. With countries like China and India moving towards mass-automobility, we face the prospects of an environmental and urban health...


Doing Business in a New Climate: A Guide to Measuring, Reducing and Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions

by Morag Carter, Paul Lingl & Deborah Carlson

Around the world, a growing number of businesses are taking steps to reduce their climate impact by managing their greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, these businesses are discovering that effective...


An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation: Policy, Planning and Implementation

by Eric Bruun, Preston L. L. Schiller & Todd Litman

Transportation plays a substantial role in the modern world; it provides tremendous benefits to society, but it also imposes significant economic, social and environmental costs. Sustainable transport planning...


Nitrous Oxide and Climate Change

by Keith Smith

Nitrous oxide, N2O, is the third most important (in global warming terms) of the greenhouse gases, after carbon dioxide and methane. As this book describes, although it only comprises 320 parts per billion of...


Agropolis: "The Social, Political and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture"

by Luc J A J A Mougeot

Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular practice in cities worldwide. A sustainable future for it is critical, especially for the urban poor of the developing world. This book presents the first findings...


The Theory and Practice of Strategic Environmental Assessment: Towards a More Systematic Approach

by Thomas B B Fischer

?Anyone serious about integrating environmental factors into planning and policy making will gain new insights and ideas from Fischer?s book on SEA; and students, teachers and practitioners of the subject will...


The Forest Ranger: A Study in Administrative Behavior

by Herbert Kaufman

It is the rare book that remains in print for nearly fifty years, earning wide acclaim as a classic. The Forest Ranger has been essential reading for generations of professionals and scholars in forestry, public...


Unaccompanied Women: Late-Life Adventures in Love, Sex, and Real Estate

by Jane Juska

“Before I turn 67, I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like.” This inspired personal ad from Jane Juska drew tremendous response and swept the retired teacher into a whirlwind existence she barely...


Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe: From Local to Transnational

by Andrea Mammone, Emmanuel Godin & Brian Jenkins

In recent years the revival of the far right and anti-Semitic, racist and fascist organizations has posed a significant threat throughout Europe. Mapping the Extreme Right in Contemporary Europe provides a broad...


Economic and Trade Policies in the Arab World: Employment, Poverty Reduction and Integration

by Mahmoud A.T. A. T. Elkhafif, Sahar Taghdisi-Rad & Mutasim Elagraa

The Arab Spring and recent popular uprisings that have taken place in many Arab countries since the end of 2010 highlight the urgent need for economic policy reorientation in these countries. This book addresses...


Reconciliation and Pedagogy

by Pal Ahluwalia, Stephen Atkinson & Peter Bishop

Reconciliation is one of the most significant contemporary challenges in the world today. In this innovative new volume, educational academics and practitioners across a range of cultural and political contexts...


Transatlantic Relations in the 21st Century: Europe, America and the Rise of the Rest

by Erwan Lagadec

This book offers an overview of the interface between European integration, transatlantic relations, and the 'rise of the rest' in the early 21st century.

The collapse of the Soviet bloc opened up an era in...


Oil and Gas in the Disputed Kurdish Territories: Jurisprudence, Regional Minorities and Natural Resources in a Federal System

by Rex J. J. Zedalis

This book examines the historical and contextual background to the oil and gas resources in the Kurdish territories, placing particular emphasis on the reserves situated in the disputed provinces. The volume...


Counter-Terrorism and State Political Violence: The 'war on terror' as terror

by Scott Poynting & David Whyte

This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power through a series of case studies of political violence arising from state 'counter-terrorism' strategies.

The book examines how state counter-terrorism...


The International Politics of Nuclear Power

by Benjamin Sovacool & Scott Victor Victor Valentine

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.

The book formulates...


Democratic Civil-Military Relations: Soldiering in 21st Century Europe

by Sabine Mannitz

This book examines the ways in which European democracies, including former communist states, are dealing with the new demands placed on their security policies since the cold war by transforming their military...