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Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It by M Nolan Gray
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.07What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persistent racial and economic segregation, and... -
Tibet Wild: A Naturalist's Journeys on the Roof of the World by George B. Schaller
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £33.23George Schaller has spent much of his life traversing wild and isolated places in his quest to understand and conserve threatened species - from mountain gorillas in the Virunga to snow leopards in... -
Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors by Kim Sorvig
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £49.18Since the publication of the first edition in 2000, Sustainable Landscape Construction has helped to spur a movement towards resilient outdoor environments, in the U.S. and throughout the world. The... -
Cities for People Jan Gehl 9781597265737
Booksplease Price: £66.15For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use - or could use - the spaces where they live and... -
Blue Urbanism: Exploring Connections Between Cities and Oceans by Timothy Beatley 9781610914055
Booksplease Price: £24.18What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change and rising sea levels, author Timothy Beatley sees... -
Climate Action Planning: A Guide to Creating Low-Carbon, Resilient Communities Michael R Boswell 9781610919630
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £33.23Climate change continues to impact our health and safety, the economy, and natural systems. With climate-related protections and programs under attack at the federal level, it is critical for cities... -
Defying Ocean's End: An Agenda For Action Linda Glover 9781559637558
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £74.85This is the result of an unprecedented effort among the world's largest environmental organizations, scientists, the business community, media, and international governments to address marine issues... -
Community Planning: An Introduction To The Comprehensive Plan by Eric Damian Kelly 9781597265539
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £46.35This book introduces community planning as practiced in the United States, focusing on the comprehensive plan. Sometimes known by other names - especially master plan or general plan - the type of... -
Resilience Practice: Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function Brian Walker 9781597268011
Booksplease Price: £26.80In 2006, "Resilience Thinking" addressed an essential question: As the natural systems that sustain us are subjected to shock after shock, how much can they take and still deliver the services we... -
Resilient by Design: Creating Businesses That Adapt and Flourish in a Changing World Joseph Fiksel 9781610915878
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55As managers grapple with the challenges of the effects of climate change in a hyper-connected, global economy, they are paying increasing attention to their organisation's resilience - its capacity... -
The Nature of Urban Design: A New York Perspective on Resilience Alexandros Washburn 9781610916998
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £41.98The global shift to an urban population comes with an uncomfortable corollary; People who live in cities as they are currently designed produce more greenhouse gasses than their non-urban... -
Urban Street Stormwater Guide National Association of City Transportation Officials 9781610918121
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.12Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities, yet street space is often underutilised or disproportionately allocated to the movement of private motor vehicles. Excess... -
Suburban Remix: Creating the Next Generation of Urban Places by Jason Lee Beske 9781610918633
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £32.93The suburban dream of a single-family house with a white picket fence no longer describes how most North Americans want to live. The dynamics that powered sprawl have all but disappeared. Instead,... -
Sustainability Indicators: A Scientific Assessment by Tomas Hak 9781597261319
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £56.55Sustainability Indicators defines the present state of the art in indicator development. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the science behind various indicators, while placing special... -
State of the World 2014: Governing for Sustainability The Worldwatch Institute 9781610915410
Booksplease Price: £28.85Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.'s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation,... -
No One Eats Alone: Food as a Social Enterprise Michael S Carolan 9781610918046
Booksplease Price: £26.80In today's fast-paced, fast food world, everyone seems to be eating alone, all the time, whether it's at their desks or in the car. Even those who find time for a family meal are cut off from the... -
A Better Way to Zone: Ten Principles to Create More Livable Cities by Donald L. Elliott 9781597261814
Booksplease Price: £28.55Nearly all large American cities rely on zoning to regulate land use. According to Donald L. Elliott, however, zoning often discourages the very development that bigger cities need and want. In fact,... -
Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning Timothy Beatley 9781597267151
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.90Tim Beatley has long been a leading advocate for the "greening" of cities. But too often, he notes, urban greening efforts focus on everything except nature, emphasising such elements as public... -
The Science of Open Spaces: Theory and Practice for Conserving Large, Complex Systems Charles G. Curtin 9781597269933
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £35.55This title presents a new framework for conservation based on public engagement and natural sciences. Management policies have tended to promote a one-size-fits-all mentality for large, complex... -
An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar Alan Rabinowitz 9781597269964
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £28.55The jaguar is one of the most mysterious and least-known big cats of the world. The largest cat in the Americas, it has survived an onslaught of environmental and human threats partly because of an... -
Spirit of Dialogue: Lessons from Faith Traditions in Transforming Conflict Aaron T. Wolf 9781610916172
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.08We tend to approach conflict from the perspective of competing interests. A farmer's interest lies in preserving water for crops, while an environmentalist's interest is in using that same water for... -
Livestock in a Changing Landscape: v. 2: Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 2 Experiences and Regional Perspectives by Pierre Gerber 9781597266734
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £50.43The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. "Livestock in a Changing Landscape"... -
Creating Vibrant Public Spaces: Streetscape Design in Commercial and Historic Districts by Ned Crankshaw 9781597264839
Booksplease Price: £34.86This title shows how to strengthen and revitalize our historic commercial districts and suburban centers, too. Public space and street design in commercial districts can dictate the success or... -
Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement by Jonathan T. Isham 9781597261562
Booksplease Price: £26.80The evidence is irrefutable: global warming is real. While the debate continues about just how much damage spiking temperatures will wreak, we know the threat to our homes, health, and even way of... -
Environmental Regulations and Housing Costs by Arthur C. Nelson 9781597265607
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £41.68Does environmental protection impose a cost? Many communities across the United States still lack affordable housing. And many officials continue to claim that 'affordable housing' is an oxymoron... -
Farming in Nature's Image: An Ecological Approach To Agriculture by Judith D. Soule 9780933280885
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £35.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780933280885Author Judy SouleFormat PaperbackPage Count 305Imprint Island PressPublisher Island Press -
Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West by Charles F. Wilkinson 9781559631495
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £41.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559631495Author Charles F. WilkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Island PressPublisher... -
Road Ecology: Science and Solutions by Richard T. T. Forman 9781559639330
Booksplease Price: £48.94A central goal of transportation is the delivery of safe and efficient services with minimal environmental impact. In practice, though, human mobility has flourished while nature has suffered... -
Agnosis and Parousia by Sandy Krolick 9781735069883
RRP: £5.95Booksplease Price: £5.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735069883Author Sandy KrolickFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Islands PressPublisher Islands... -
Purified: How Recycled Sewage Is Transforming Our Water by Peter Annin 9781642832815
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.55In 2000, a transformative climate-driven “megadrought” swept over the Colorado River watershed. By the early 2020s, levels on the river’s two largest reservoirs were hitting record lows and... -
The Teacher's Gift: Discovering and Using Your CORE GIFT to Inspire and Heal by Bruce Anderson 9780977387700
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £7.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977387700Author Bruce AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Island PressPublisher Island... -
The Biophilia Hypothesis by Stephen R. Kellert 9781559631471
Booksplease Price: £47.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559631471Author Stephen R. KellertFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Island PressPublisher... -
A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies by Matt Simon 9781642833225
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642833225Author Matt SimonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Island PressPublisher Island... -
Effective Conservation: Parks, Rewilding, and Local Development by Ignacio Jimenez
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.19For most, "conservation" conjures the notion of minimising human presence on wildlands to avoid harmful impacts. But too often, this defensive approach has pitted local communities against... -
Ecological Economics, Second Edition: Principles and Applications by Herman E. Daly
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £60.30In its first edition, this book helped to define the emerging field of ecological economics. This new edition surveys the field today. It incorporates all of the latest research findings and grounds... -
Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places Jeff Speck 9781610918985
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.08Nearly every US city would like to be more walkable-for reasons of health, wealth, and the environment-yet few are taking the proper steps to get there. The goals are often clear, but the path is... -
Copenhagenize: The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism Mikael Colville-Andersen 9781610919388
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £31.49A funny, snarky, and engaging guide to getting a better biking city.Urban designer Mikael Colville-Andersen draws from his experience working for dozens of cities around the world on bicycle... -
Collected Papers of Michael E. Soule: Early Years in Modern Conservation Biology Michael E. Soule 9781610915748
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.60In the early 1970s, the environmental movement was underway. Over population was recognised as a threat to human well-being, and scientists like Michael Soule believed there was a connection between... -
Holistic Management: A Commonsense Revolution to Restore Our Environment Allan Savory 9781610917438
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £26.00Fossil fuels and livestock grazing are often targeted as major culprits behind climate change and desertification. But Allan Savory, cofounder of the Savory Institute, begs to differ. The bigger... -
Urban Acupuncture by Jaime Lerner 9781610917278
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25A visionary of sustainable urbanism reflects on the innovative projects that uplift cities in this meditative journey through vibrant communities around the world. During his three terms as mayor of...