Book notes
More than half the world’s population live in urban areas. Growing numbers of people in rural areas buy more food than they sell. Current food security narratives are outdated: urban dwellers are not all “over consumers” and rural communities are not exclusively food producers.
On the coast of Java, Semarang City faces a multitude of climate-related problems including sea-level rise, flash and tidal floods, subsidence and coastal erosion. Drawing on four case-study villages, this paper explores how households are coping with the impacts of climate change.
Rural–urban migration continues to attract much interest, but also growing concern. Migrants are often blamed for increasing urban poverty, but not all migrants are poor.
Food City builds on several years of research on the intersection of food with urban planning and policy.
The author incorporates the intrinsic value of nature and a concern for future generations and non-human beings into a socio-ecological understanding of poverty.
This working paper brings together discussions of the green economy and climate change resilience, using the urban informal economy to anchor these concepts.
Urban experiments addressing climate change open up a platform for cities, where government organizations, civic society and private actors can explore, learn and challenge their approaches to climate governance beyond institutional limits.
This book places a big question mark against the sustainability of sustainable development policies and their role and contribution to sustaining the places, environments and people in London.
Winners of a UK sustainable development award scheme describe their hands-on approaches to sustainable development in diverse fields such as travel and transport, buildings, food and entrepreneurship.
This edited volume by authors from multiple disciplines promotes the nexus approach as a policy-relevant means of environmental management by focusing on integrated management of water, soil and waste resources.