Franz W. Gatzweiler has a background in agricultural, natural resource, ecological and institutional economics. He has university degrees from the University of Bonn and Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. Before becoming executive director of the global interdisciplinary science programme on Urban Health and Wellbeing, he was senior scientist at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, where he was principle investigator for research projects on marginality and technological and institutional innovations for rural smallholders, in Subsaharan Africa and South Asia.
Yong-Guan Zhu is a professor of Soil Environmental Sciences and Environmental Biology and the director general of the Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen, Fujian Province, China.
17 Ebooks door Susan Parnell
Doctor Edgar Pieterse & Susan Parnell: Africa’s Urban Revolution
The facts of Africa’s rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent’s population will be urban. Yet in the minds …
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€27.52
Ian Palmer & Nishendra Moodley: Building a Capable State
The sustainable development goals signed in 2016 marked a new phase in global development thinking, one which is focused on ecologically and fiscally sustainable human settlements. Few countries offe …
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€32.35
Dirk Kruijt & Kees Koonings: Megacities
For the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second half of the twentieth century. ‘Megacit …
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€34.66
Thomas Elmqvist & Michail Fragkias: Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities
Urbanization is a global phenomenon and the book emphasizes that this is not just a social-technological process. It is also a social-ecological process where cities are places for nature, and where …
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€3.84
Franz W. Gatzweiler & Yong-Guan Zhu: Advancing Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment
This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research prog …
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€96.29
Anton (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Cartwright & Gregg Oelofse: Climate Change at the City Scale
Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs. In recent years cities have begun to craft their own climate change responses ag …
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€172.74
Anton (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Cartwright & Gregg Oelofse: Climate Change at the City Scale
Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs. In recent years cities have begun to craft their own climate change responses ag …
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€173.33
Jo Beall & Owen Crankshaw: Uniting a Divided City
For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, environmental degradation, escalating crime and violen …
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€56.50
Jo Beall & Owen Crankshaw: Uniting a Divided City
For many, Johannesburg resembles the imagined spectre of the urban future. Global anxieties about catastrophic urban explosion, social fracture, environmental degradation, escalating crime and violen …
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€56.50
Sophie Oldfield & Susan Parnell: The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South
The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus on the neglected realities of cities beyond the west and embraces the global south as the epicentre of urbanism. This Handbook engage …
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€75.63
Sophie Oldfield & Susan Parnell: The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South
The renaissance in urban theory draws directly from a fresh focus on the neglected realities of cities beyond the west and embraces the global south as the epicentre of urbanism. This Handbook engage …
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€75.76
Ian Palmer & Nishendra Moodley: Building a Capable State
The sustainable development goals signed in 2016 marked a new phase in global development thinking, one which is focused on ecologically and fiscally sustainable human settlements. Few countries offe …
PDF
Engels
DRM
€32.35
Dirk Kruijt & Kees Koonings: Megacities
For the first time in history, the majority of the world’s population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second half of the twentieth century. ‘Megacit …
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€34.41
Sylvia Croese & Susan Parnell: Localizing the SDGs in African Cities
This volume brings together a unique set of interventions from a variety of contributors to bridge the gap between research and policy with a distinct focus on Africa, drawing on work condu …
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€117.69
Gautam Bhan & Michael Keith: Cities Rethought
In a world of disruptions and seemingly endless complexity, cities have become – perhaps more than ever – central to thinking about the future of humanity. Yet rarely has the study of cities been mor …
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€16.99
