Environment & the City Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Cities and Low Carbon Transitions

   Edited by Harriet Bulkeley, Vanesa Castán Broto, Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale...

   Published November 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. A Crisis of Waste?

   Understanding the Rubbish Society

   By Martin O'Brien

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book takes a measured look at the 'crisis of waste' in modern society and it does so historically, sociologically and critically. It tells stories about past and present ‘crises’ of waste and puts them in their appropriate social and industrial contexts. From Charles Dickens to Don...

   Published December 8th 2011 by Routledge
3. Agriculture in Urban Planning

   Generating Livelihoods and Food Security

   Edited by Mark Redwood

   This volume, by graduate researchers working in urban agriculture, examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanizing global south, the book examines the contribution of urban agriculture and city...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge