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1. Transforming Urban Transport

   The Ethics, Politics and Practices of Sustainable Mobility

   Edited by Nicholas Low

   Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world addicted to automobility. It highlights the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuel path and gives viable technological alternatives which can be deployed to find a solution. Changes in urban mobility and transport...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
2. The Green City

   Sustainable Homes, Sustainable Suburbs

   By Nicholas Low, Brendon Gleeson, Ray Green, Darko Radovic

   A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of...

   Published March 23rd 2005 by Routledge
3. Consuming Cities

   The Urban Environment in the Global Economy after Rio

   By Ingemar Elander, Brendan Gleeson, Rolf Lidskog, Nicholas Low

   This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a difference. Consuming Cities examines this...

   Published October 13th 1999 by Routledge
4. Global Ethics and Environment

   Edited by Nicholas Low

   As global capitalism expands and reaches ever-further corners of the world, practical problems continue to escalate and repercussions become increasingly serious and irreversible. These practical problems carry with them equally important and ethical issues.Global Ethics and Environment explores...

   Published September 22nd 1999 by Routledge
5. Justice, Society and Nature

   An Exploration of Political Ecology

   By Brendan Gleeson, Nicholas Low

   Justice, Society and Nature examines the moral response which the world must make to the ecological crisis if there is to be real change in the global society and economy to favour ecological integrity. From its base in the idea of the self, through principles of political justice, to the justice...

   Published February 11th 1998 by Routledge
6. Planning Politics & State

   By Nicholas Low

   First published in 1990...

   Published November 21st 1990 by Routledge