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Sharing Knowledge for Land Use Management
Edited by John McDonagh, Seija Tuulentie
‘The importance of public participation in decision-making has for decades been acknowledged, but cost-effective tools are unfortunately still lacking. The book emphasizes opportunities offered by the rapid technical development within g...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Communities, Land and Social Innovation
Edited by Pieter Van den Broeck, Asiya Sadiq, Ide Hiergens, Monica Quintana Molina, Han Verschure, Frank Moulaert
‘This interesting book offers a diversity of understandings of how joint efforts to access land and land tenure enable communities and empower them to be part of their own governance, not only through the official land development and pl...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Elgar Companion to Geography, Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability
Edited by Fausto O. Sarmiento, Larry M. Frolich
‘This Elgar Companion offers a long-awaited combination of geography and sustainability, where the notions of time and scale are brought together with the concept of intra- and inter-generational equity, and the need to underlay this wit...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Handbook on Transport and Urban Transformation in China
Edited by Chia-Lin Chen, Haixiao Pan, Qing Shen, James J. Wang
‘This book provides a welcome addition our understanding of urban transformation in China where the scale and speed of change has been phenomenal over the last 40 years. It covers all forms of transport, examining the modes, the environm...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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The Handbook of Diverse Economies
Edited by J. K. Gibson-Graham, Kelly Dombroski
‘The Handbook of Diverse Economies offers a rich, beautiful, organic garden of ideas to nourish the project of “doing economy” differently. These sprouts and vines will, eventually, alter the institutional structures we inhabit.’ – Nancy...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories
Edited by Anssi Paasi, John Harrison, Martin Jones
‘The Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories is a comprehensive work of scholarship that showcases academic writings that are concerned with advancing understandings and explanations of regions and territories. The volume ...eBook:Find out more$52.00
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Local Resources, Territorial Development and Well-being
Edited by Jean-Christophe Dissart, Natacha Seigneuret
‘Local Resources, Territorial Development and Well-being provides a timely and innovative contribution to the literature on regional development. The edited book explores the relationships between territorial actors and resources and loc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Sustainable Development Goals and Income Inequality
Edited by Peter A.G. van Bergeijk, Rolph van der Hoeven
‘The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations have set the most ambitious development agenda in history. For the first time, income inequality was included as a specific goal, and one that is essential to stem one of the worst...eBook:Find out more$31.96
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Developing Bus Rapid Transit
Edited by Fiona Ferbrache
‘This is a useful book that uses case studies from around the world to determine the value of BRT in a range of geographic contexts. The examples cover a variety of scales of systems from BRT lite, running largely in mixed traffic, to fu...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Tapping the Oceans
Edited by Joe Williams, Erik Swyngedouw
‘This very timely book provides an excellent and insightful introduction to the entanglements of water, salt, power, and capital in the emergence of an alleged environmentally friendly and cornucopian solution to increasing water scarcit...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on the Geographies of Corruption
Edited by Barney Warf
‘Corruption occurs at multiple scales and in different forms. The 21 chapters by international scholars examine corruption and e-government, development, and gender, with accounts of 16 countries/regions including China, Russia, Brazil, ...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Varieties of Capital Cities
David Kaufmann
‘Varieties of Capital Cities provides a thorough and sweeping assessment of the ways four leading capital cities struggle to control their economic destinies through public locational policies. In a trenchant analysis of the economic, go...eBook:Find out more$40.00