Natural and Built Environment Series

Sustainability Assessment

Pluralism, practice and progress

Edited by Alan Bond, Angus Morrison-Saunders, Richard Howitt

Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

Sustainability Assessment is an increasingly important tool for informing planning and development decisions across the globe. Required by law in some countries, strongly recommended in others, a comprehensive analysis of why Sustainability Assessment is needed and ...

Published July 8th 2012 by Routledge

Real Estate

Property Markets and Sustainable Behaviour

By Peter Dent, Michael Patrick, Xu Ye

Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

Traditional studies of the property market have tended to focus solely on commercial and legal issues, but the growing importance of the issue of sustainability means that a different approach is needed. This new textbook provides an overview of property within a market context, examining the...

Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge

Introduction To Environmental Impact Assessment

4th Edition

By John Glasson, Riki Therivel, Andrew Chadwick

Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment provides students and practitioners with a clearly structured overview of the subject, as well as critical analysis and support for further studies. Written by three authors with extensive research, training and practical experience in EIA (...

Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge

The Environmental Impact Statement After Two Generations

Managing Environmental Power

By Michael R. Greenberg

Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

This book is about a subject that Michael Greenberg has worked on and lived with for almost forty years. He was brought up in the south Bronx at a time when his neighborhood suffered from terrible air and noise pollution, and domestic waste went untreated into the Hudson River. For him,...

Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge

Building Competences for Spatial Planners

Methods and Techniques for Performing Tasks with Efficiency

By Anastassios Perdicoulis

Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

Spatial planning is a process. The focus of this book is on the sequence of key tasks that constitute the process and on special techniques that are suitable to conduct these tasks. Spatial planners require a number of skills to manage this process in an efficient manner, select the necessary tasks...

Published March 15th 2011 by Routledge

Spatial Planning and Climate Change

By Elizabeth Wilson, Jake Piper

Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

Spatial planning has a vital role to play in the move to a low carbon energy future and in adapting to climate change. To do this, spatial planning must develop and implement new approaches. Elizabeth Wilson and Jake Piper explore a wide range of issues in this comprehensive book on the...

Published August 15th 2010 by Routledge

Water and the City

Risk, Resilience and Planning for a Sustainable Future

By Iain White

Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

As a vital human need, water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow and the standard of living of the inhabitants. The relationship is complex however; we need both continual availability and protection from its potential impacts. Over...

Published July 21st 2010 by Routledge

Transport Policy and Planning in Great Britain

By Peter Headicar

Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

Transport in the twenty-first century represents a significant challenge at the global and the local scale. Aided by over sixty clear illustrations, Peter Headicar disentangles this complex, modern issue in five parts, offering critical insights into: the nature of transport the...

Published April 5th 2009 by Routledge

Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment

3rd Edition

Edited by Peter Morris, Riki Therivel

Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is now firmly established as an important and often obligatory part of proposing or launching any development project. Delivering a successful EIA needs not only an understanding of the theory but also a detailed knowledge of the methods for carrying out the...

Published March 4th 2009 by Routledge

Urban Planning and Real Estate Development

3rd Edition

By John Ratcliffe, Michael Stubbs, Miles Keeping

Series: Natural and Built Environment Series

The twin processes of planning and property development are inextricably linked – it’s not possible to carry out a development strategy without an understanding of the planning process, and equally planners need to know how real estate developers do their job. This third edition of Urban Planning...

Published January 11th 2009 by Routledge