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Making Cities Work

Role of Local Authorities in the Urban Environment

By: Richard Gilbert,Don Stevenson,Herbert Girardet,Richard Stren

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Making Cities Work

Role of Local Authorities in the Urban Environment

By: Richard Gilbert,Don Stevenson,Herbert Girardet,Richard Stren

For too long, cities have been thought of as environmental blackspots, with high levels of air and soil pollution, overcrowding, poor sanitation and growing waste disposal problems. This book takes a more positive attitude: cities can be made to work sustainably. Their high population density can work in the environment's favour if they can achieve efficient use of resources such as energy and water supplies, and improve transport and infrastructure. The best cities today are clean, resource efficient, green and pleasant, and not only act as cultural and entertainment centres, but also harbour great varieties of wildlife. Making Cities Work looks at the vital role which local authorities can - and must - play in safeguarding and developing our towns and cities. Their role is crucial, and the aim of the book is to make governments, international bodies and local authority associations aware of how potential environmental and social problems can be overcome, and what can be achieved. This book is being written by urban development experts, based on material supplied by the world's leading city associations. It is being edited by one of the world's most highly regarded cultural ecologists, and has been commissioned by UNHCS for the Habitat II conference. Clearly written, accessible, and fully illustrated throughout with photographs, figures and graphs, it is ideal for students, fascinating reading for the general public, and essential for those involved in local authorities, planning and development.

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1134052170

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Creating Regenerative Cities

By: Herbert Girardet

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Creating Regenerative Cities

By: Herbert Girardet

Large, modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three percent of the world’s land surface, their ecological footprints actually cover the entire globe. Humanity is building an urban future, yet urban resource use is threatening the future of humanity and the natural world. To meet the aspirations of city people in both developing and developed countries, bold new initiatives are needed. Modern cities are an astonishing human achievement. As centres of innovation they are humanity’s cultural playgrounds. Their communication and transport systems have developed a global reach. They are attractive to investors because they can offer a vast variety of services at comparatively low per-capita costs. But are they viable as ecological systems? The planning of new cities, as well as the retrofit of existing cities, needs to undergo a profound paradigm shift. Mere 'sustainable development' is not enough. To be compatible with natural systems, cities need to move away from linear systems of resource use and learn to operate as closed-loop, circular systems. To ensure their long-term future, they need to develop an environmentally enhancing, restorative relationship between themselves and the natural systems on which they still depend. Creating Regenerative Cities is a concise, solution-oriented manual for creating regenerative urbanisation. A wide range of technical, management and policy solutions already exist, but implementation has been too slow and too little, in large part because the kinds of holistic approaches needed are still unfamiliar to fragmented and process-driven urban policy making and governance. Herbert Girardet's 30 years’ experience as an ecologist, thinker, film maker and consultant working around the world has created this unique combination of tried and tested best practices and policies, which outlines the fundamental shifts needed in the way we think about our cities.

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1317654099

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The Gaia Atlas of Cities

New Directions for Sustainable Urban Living

By: Herbert Girardet

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The Gaia Atlas of Cities

New Directions for Sustainable Urban Living

By: Herbert Girardet

In the last 100 years global urban populations have expanded from 15 to 50%. Urban growth patterns are changing the face of the earth and the condition of humanity. This atlas addresses these key issues, and analyses the problems of expanding cities.

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UN-HABITAT

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1856750973

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9781856750974

Energy

Facts and Future

By: Herbert F. Matare

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Energy

Facts and Future

By: Herbert F. Matare

This review is supposed to supply to the reader the necessary facts to judge where we stand today in terms of the energy crisis, and what has to be done to save humanity from a catastrophic energy shortage.

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CRC Press

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1351088580

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Making Cities Work

Role of Local Authorities in the Urban Environment

By: Richard Gilbert,Don Stevenson,Herbert Girardet,Richard Stren

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Role of Local Authorities in the Urban Environment

By: Richard Gilbert,Don Stevenson,Herbert Girardet,Richard Stren

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1134052103

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International Armed Conflict Since 1945

A Bibliographic Handbook Of Wars And Military Interventions

By: Herbert K. Tillema

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International Armed Conflict Since 1945

A Bibliographic Handbook Of Wars And Military Interventions

By: Herbert K. Tillema

International Armed Conflict Since 1945 is a bibliographic handbook that briefly describes each of 269 international wars and other war-threatening conflicts occurring between 1945 and 1988. .

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347

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0429715099

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9780429715099

Comprehensive Logistics

By: Timm Gudehus,Herbert Kotzab

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Comprehensive Logistics

By: Timm Gudehus,Herbert Kotzab

Modern logistics comprises operative logistics, analytical logistics and management of logistic networks. Central task of operative logistics is the efficient supply of required goods at the right place within the right time. Tasks of analytical logistics are designing optimal networks and systems, developing strategies for planning, scheduling and operation, and organizing efficient order and performance processes. Logistic management plans, implements and operates logistic networks and schedules orders, stocks and resources. This reference-book offers a unique survey of modern logistics. It contains proven strategies, rules and tools for the solution of a multitude of logistic problems. The analytically derived algorithms and formulas can be used for the computer-based planning of logistic systems and for the dynamic scheduling of orders and resources in supply networks. They enable significant improvements of performance, quality and costs. Their application is demonstrated by several examples from industry, trade and service providers. Apart from corrections and modifications the second edition contains a new chapter on maritime logistics. It demonstrates how the methods of this book can be used to solve complex logistic problems of practical relevance for economy, society and environment. The book is written for professionals, scientists, teachers and graduate students. An extensive index makes it a dictionary of modern logistics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642243673

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Freedom, Justice, and Hope

Toward a Strategy for the Poor and the Oppressed

By: Herbert Schlossberg

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Freedom, Justice, and Hope

Toward a Strategy for the Poor and the Oppressed

By: Herbert Schlossberg

...Freedom, Justice, and Hope seeks to present the biblical worldview and essential principles for effective work in relief and development. It exposes the tragic failure of "Liberation Theology", social engineering, and utopian ideology. But beyond this, it points to practical solutions that will change lives and cultures at the deepest level--through the transforming power of the gospel--and give practical assistance to those in need." [back cover].

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0891075267

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Creating the World Future Council

By: Jakob von Uexkull,Herbert Girardet

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Creating the World Future Council

By: Jakob von Uexkull,Herbert Girardet

As a result of rampant materialism, consumerism and a very narrow view of the world, we have created a profoundly unsustainable civilisation which is, effectively a world without a future. This situation is being challenged by the World Future Council.

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1903998468

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Book's by Herbert Girardet

Making Cities Work

Making Cities Work

Creating Regenerative Cities

Creating Regenerative Cities

The Gaia Atlas of Cities

The Gaia Atlas of Cities

Energy

Energy

Making Cities Work

Making Cities Work

International Armed Conflict Since 1945

International Armed Conflict Since 1945

Comprehensive Logistics

Comprehensive Logistics

Freedom, Justice, and Hope

Freedom, Justice, and Hope

Creating the World Future Council

Creating the World Future Council

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