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  • The Imperatives of Sustainable Development

    Needs, Justice, Limits

    de Erling Holden, Kristin Linnerud, David Banister ...
    Taking the ethical foundations from the seminal UN Report (1987), Our Common Future, this revised, updated, and extended second edition builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits.The model presented identifies sustainability themes and assigns thresholds to them, defining the space ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Imperatives of Sustainable Development

    Needs, Justice, Limits

    de Erling Holden, Kristin Linnerud, David Banister, August Wierling, Valeria Schwanitz ...
    Thirty years ago, the UN report Our Common Future placed sustainable development firmly on the international agenda. The Imperatives of Sustainable Development takes the ethical foundations of Our Common Future and builds a model that emphasizes three equally important moral imperatives – satisfying human needs, ensuring social justice, and respecting environmental limits. This model suggests ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Transport, Climate Change and the City

    de Robin Hickman, David Banister ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
    Sustainable mobility has long been sought after in cities around the world, particularly in industrialised countries, but also increasingly in the emerging cities in Asia. Progress however appears difficult to make as the private car, still largely fuelled by petrol or diesel, remains the mainstream mode of use. Transport is the key sector where carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions seem difficult to ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Unsustainable Transport

    City Transport in the New Century

    de David Banister ...
    Series series Transport, Development and Sustainability Series
    This book addresses the links between transport and sustainable urban development, from an analysis of the global picture to issues in transport and energy intensity, public policy and the institutional and organisational constraints on change. The central part of the book explores these links in more detail at city level, covering land use and development, economic measures, and the role that ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Transport Policy and the Environment

    Edición de David Banister ...
    There is currently considerable concern with limiting the growth of transport demand, the use of resources and related pollution. This book makes a major contribution to the debate on transport and the environment and is likely to become a benchmark against which new research will be developed. Transport Policy and the Environment presents for the first time the results of extensive research: ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Transport Investment and Economic Development

    de David Banister, Joseph Berechman ...
    A major concern of all decision makers has been to ensure that there are clear benefits from transport investment proposals. The travel time savings are clear, but the wider economic developments have presented enormous difficulty in terms of both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence. This book reviews the history of the debate and argues that the agenda has changed. These issues are ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

  • Transport and Urban Development

    de David Banister ...
    The editor and his contributors take an international perspective on the links between land use, development and transport and present the latest thinking, the theory and practice of these links. Authors from six countries - all experts in this area - have been commissioned to write chapters on the theoretical debates and more practical issues, via the use of detailed case studies. ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Integrated Transport

    From Policy to Practice

    Edición de Moshe Givoni, David Banister ...
    Travel is an essential part of everyday life and today most journeys are multimodal. It is the total travel experience that counts and integrated transport must reduce the inconvenience of transfers between modes. Most research and many publications on transport policy advocate sustainable transport, but the priority given to integration has been negligible. Yet integration is one of the most ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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    Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    de Andrew Ross ...
    Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the ... Leer más

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  • The Case for Degrowth

    de Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D'Alisa, Federico Demaria ...
    The relentless pursuit of economic growth is the defining characteristic of contemporary societies. Yet it benefits few and demands monstrous social and ecological sacrifice. Is there a viable alternative? How can we halt the endless quest to grow global production and consumption and instead secure socio-ecological conditions that support lives worth living for all?In this compelling book, ... Leer más

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  • The Growth Story of the 21st Century

    The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action

    de Nicholas Stern ...
    The world stands at a crossroads. The next decade will determine whether we avoid climate, biodiversity, and economic catastrophe - or unlock a new era of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive growth. The Growth Story of the 21st Century challenges the outdated idea that we must choose between climate action and development. Instead, it presents a compelling case for a transformation that delivers ... Leer más

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  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    de Bob Gibson, Selma Hassan, James Tansey ...
    Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD