Author: Chris Goodall
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: stopping, climate, change, guide, individuals, low, carbon, life, live
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2007-03-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1844074269
ISBN-13: 9781844074266

Individual action is now recognized as one of the keys to tackling climate change - the greatest challenge facing humanity * Shows how consumers can conduct a personal and household `carbon audit,’ take decisive action for lowering their carbon footprint and save money * User-friendly and comprehensive: includes tables for calculating carbon emissions and monetary costs and savings and methods for making choices for maximum carbon and cost reduction * Companion website with easy-to-use spreadsheets and up to the minute figures and product information How to Live a Lo

Authors:Lotte Asveld, Sabine Roeser,
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: risk, series, society, earthscan, ethics, technological
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-12
List price: $127.00
ISBN-10: 1844076385
ISBN-13: 9781844076383

This volume brings together top authors from the fields of risk, philosophy, social sciences and psychology to address the issue of how we should decide how far technological risks are morally acceptable or not. The underlying principles are examined, along with methodological challenges, public involvement and instruments for democratization. A strong theoretical basis is complemented by a range of case studies from some of the most contentious areas, including medical ethics and GM crops. This book is a vital new resource for researchers, students and anyone concerned that traditional approa

Authors:Charles Landry, Phil Wood,
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: advantage, diversity, planning, city, intercultural
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2007-11
List price: $166.00
ISBN-10: 1844074374
ISBN-13: 9781844074372

In a world where individuals are increasingly mobile, how people originating from different cultures live together is one of the key issues of the 21st century. There is a growing need for new thinking on how diverse communities can live together in productive harmony and not in parallel and separate lives. Policy is often dominated by mitigating the perceived negative effects of diversity (complexity, loss of cohesion, exploitation and racism) but little thought has been given to how a diversity dividend or increased innovative capacity might be achieved. The Intercultural City analyzes the r

Author: Julia Wright
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: scarcity, lessons, cuba, oil, era, agriculture, food, security, sustainable
Number of Pages: 278
Published: 2008-12
List price: $117.00
ISBN-10: 1844075729
ISBN-13: 9781844075720

When other nations are forced to rethink their agricultural and food security strategies in light of the post-peak oil debate, they only have one living example to draw from: that of Cuba in the 1990s. Based on the first and, up till now, only systematic and empirical study to come out of Cuba on this topic, this book examines how the nation successfully headed off its own food crisis after the dissolution of the Soviet Bloc in the early 1990s. It identifies the policies and practices required for such an achievement under conditions of petroleum-scarcity, and in doing so it challenges the mor

Authors:George Martine, Gordon Mcgranahan, Mark Montgomery, R
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: environment, century, poverty, urbanization, global, frontier, new
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2008-09
List price: $166.00
ISBN-10: 1844075591
ISBN-13: 9781844075591

Massive urban growth can either help pave the way to sustainable development or greatly exacerbate poverty and environmental stress. The outcome depends on decisions being made now. The first part of this book takes a critical look at the forecasting of population growth and migration using the UN Population Division’s cities databases. The second part looks specifically at urbanization and poverty, focusing attention on the critical issues of urban shelter, land and service provision and the socioeconomic and demographic information needed for improving governance and social programs.

Authors:Richard Franceys, Esther Gerlach,
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: public, private, partnerships, regulation, economic, water, sanitation, poor, regulating
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2008-08
List price: $97.50
ISBN-10: 1844076172
ISBN-13: 9781844076178

The aim of this book is to present the potential benefits as well as the challenges of introducing a more formal economic regulatory process into the urban water sector arena in lower-income countries. There is a particular focus upon the impact this may have on the poorest, the informal, slum and shanty dwellers of the rapidly growing cities. Economic regulation, usually introduced in the context of private operation of monopoly water supply, can deliver objectivity and transparency in the price-setting process for public providers also. But this is not, as is commonly assumed, primarily to p

Author: Adrian Henriques
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: transparency, limits, truth, corporate
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2007-05
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1844073904
ISBN-13: 9781844073900

In the corporate jungle inhabited by Enrons and WorldComs, a lack of transparency is the root of all scandal, yet delivering transparency seems immensely difficult with the often competing interests of shareholders, corporate boards, government regulators, and other stakeholders. Written by noted corporate social responsibility practitioner Adrian Henriques and drawing on a vast wealth of real-life examples from the commercial world, this lively business book goes in search of the appropriate limits of transparency. From commercial confidentiality to the ethics of marketing to lobbying and cor