Book notes
This book emerged from a competition for advanced graduate students, which aimed to highlight innovative ideas from a new generation of scholars on urban poverty reduction.
This peer-reviewed paper highlights that even the most conservative economic approaches show the monetary advantages of investing in urban green and blue infrastructure, such as rehabilitation of rivers and woodlands.
This short and thought-provoking text by the author of Ground Control acts as a starting point to investigate and debate the privatization of public life in the city and the prospects of better ways to work together as a society.
Climate change presents multiple challenges for local governments in developing countries.
The impacts of climate change in India are predicted to increase migration from rural villages and hazard-pr
In recent years there has been a number of climate change vulnerability assessments (CCVAs) conducted in cit
Transport-related problems in Karachi, Pakistan have increased considerably in recent decades.
Responsible Living is concerned with how individuals can guide the transition toward sustainable development. Education is seen as essential to this. Therefore this book’s chapters cover broad topics, in a wide range of countries, related to education for sustainability.
In this updated version, David Hulme uses methods and concepts from economics, politics, sociology and geography to further elaborate on major debates on the political economy surrounding global poverty eradication and sustainable development agendas.
As a brief overview, Child Street Life is most useful for readers new to the topic, or those particularly interested in Peru.