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Danielak S: Peace Infrastructures

Peace Infrastructures

How UN Peace Operations Build Roads, Bridges, and Solar Farms in the Pursuit of Sustainability

Rural Livelihoods Beyond Coca in Colombia's Peace Laboratory

Governing the Excluded

How Zoning Shapes Our World

Key to the City

Explores innovative planning and design strategies to tackle housing affordability, offering case studies and solutions that enhance livability, community resilience, and opportunity, from urban scale to home design.

New socio-economic and environmental realities have brought about a "perfect storm" of circumstances that are forcing a search for innovative solutions in the built residential environment, including affordable housing design and construction. The need to rethink planning practices and align them with contemporary environmental constraints has taken center stage in recent years. The depletion of non-renewable resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change are a few of the challenges that force designers to reconsider conceptual approaches in favor of ones that promote a better suitability between built and natural environments. Consideration of concepts that lower a place's carbon footprint by minimizing driving, using renewable energy, and preserving the site's natural assets is one of the contemporary strategies that architects, planners, and builders are integrating into their philosophy and practice. 
Given these emerging challenges, the need to think innovatively about planning affordable communities while learning from notable case studies is at the heart of the proposed book. The intention is to explore principles and to present outstanding international case studies that offer valuable lessons. 
The book is also about livability-where design touches life and the big and small things that make people appreciate homes and neighborhoods. Livability has become an increasingly important lens with which to analyze a city, considering population demands, built infrastructure, and ecosystems. Community requirements for goods and services, in relation to what is available to a population is an indication of a place's livability. To foster livable, affordable communities throughout all the stages of life, the social, environmental, and structural needs of a place should be considered and planned for through innovative designs and policies. 
The material assembled can be of help to planners, architects, and builders designing and planning a large community or individual homes. It can be used by for-profit firms or nonprofit organizations planning on initiating ownership or rental accommodations. Although some of the standards described in the book are relevant to the North American market, its basic principles can be used internationally. Similarly, even though many of the designs described here are for mid- to low-rise wood-frame structures, their concepts are applicable to tall, large buildings.

Affordable Housing for Livable Cities

Non-State Actors in Global Governance

Originally viewed with immense optimism and hailed as a panacea for overcoming violent conflict, peacebuilding today has emerged as one of the biggest development challenges facing the world. As a concept and strategy, peacebuilding has found positive resonance among INGOs and there is evidence of increasing peace building involvement of these organisations in post-conflict societies from Afghanistan to Angola, Sierra Leone to Iraq. This book explores the potential and viability of INGOs as sustainable peacebuilders, by examining and analysing the involvement of three organisations; International Alert, Conciliation Resources and World Vision in specific peacebuilding activities. On the basis of this analysis a model for effective INGO participation in the field of post-conflict peacebuilding is constructed which, if implemented, has the potential to ensure the meaningful and effective engagement of INGOs in peacebuilding activities.

International Non-Governmental Organisations as Peacebuilders

Anthem Africology Series

Indigenous Knowledge Systems, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa

Dislocations

Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

From Village Commons to Public Goods

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization—from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to Lagos For the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagined future cities that would be radically different from those of the past. Planners pursued progress, whether focused on flying vehicles above, sewage systems below, or daily life in between. Yet, as Bruno Carvalho shows in this original and wide-ranging history, which features some sixty illustrations, modern cities continuously defied predictions. Visionary designs and technological innovations created dramatic, unforeseen outcomes, and the ongoing urban boom is a story of continuity as well as rupture. A compelling history of imagined futures and the transformation of urban life, The Invention of the Future also suggests what we might learn from the stories of our cities as we shape them for the twenty-first century. Moving between large-scale changes and detailed examples, this captivating narrative tells the story of key moments and turning points: the rebuilding of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake; the 1811 Commissioners’ Plan for Manhattan; Parisian reforms from 1853 to 1870; Le Corbusier’s plans for South American cities in the 1920s and 1930s; the postwar victory of the car; the utopian capital of Brasília; and urban growth in Africa. In recent decades, Carvalho argues, the capacity to invent urban futures has become increasingly constrained. Social and environmental challenges loom large. But the story is not over. While cities helped create current problems, compact and transit-rich urbanization might be our best hope to combine high living standards with sustainability. Sometimes, moving forward can involve reaching back to the future.

A History of Cities in the Modern World

The Invention of the Future

Shaping the Future of Cities

AI-Driven Urban Planning

Creative Movement and Peacebuilding

Dancing Through the Dissonance

Travelers are increasingly demanding more sustainable options from tourism and hospitality companies and, in order to thrive, travel professionals must implement regenerative practices at the heart of their operations. Regenerative travel focuses on a future where tourism creates a positive impact for destinations by travel companies investing in local communities, ultimately leaving them a better place. 

Regenerative Tourism and Hospitality explores the practical steps tourism and hospitality professionals can take to adapt their travel businesses to align with the Glasgow Declaration and achieve net zero emissions targets by 2050. It looks at the five key areas travel businesses must consider: measurement, decarbonization, regeneration, collaboration and finance. It stresses how travel businesses have a responsibility to address the climate crisis by investing in the local communities where tourism operations are based to ensure vulnerable environments can continue to exist and accept visitors. At the same time, to meet consumer demands, travel operators must offer more sustainable options that allow travellers to engage actively with the destinations they visit. 

This book offers data-driven and nature-based solutions for senior travel professionals to transform their businesses to be more purposeful and sustainable. Using real-world examples this book shows how by adopting regenerative practices, tourism and hospitality businesses' efforts can benefit destinations, elevate the traveller experience and have a positive impact on the future of the industry.

Building a Resilient and Positive Impact-Led Travel Industry

Regenerative Tourism and Hospitality

Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative

Aiming to contribute to the literature of what works to make peace, this volume examines the roles of land, water and mineral resources in conflict and peacemaking. The analysis focuses on six cases of prolonged, ethno-national, asymmetric conflict and six cases of special interest.

For War or Peace

The Role of Land and Natural Resources in Conflict and Peacemaking

World Scientific Series On The Built Environment

Urban Management is about managing cities in uncertain times. The book covers the urbanization process, the urban challenges, the benefits of cities, and the scope of urban management. The latter includes urban planning, capital investment programs, local economic development, housing, urban service delivery, public utilities, social services, general urban services, transport, and asset management. This book focuses on the general principles of urban management, particularly in developing countries. It uses the CSGG framework -- institutional capacity, scope of urban management, goals of urban management, and governance -- for urban management.In this second edition, the chapters have been reorganized, revised, and expanded to include many case studies. There are new chapters on capital investment programs and asset management. The latter contains many topics on asset management, including strategic asset management, asset-light business models, maintenance principles and technologies, and the use of more recent technologies such as drones, Lidar, and satellite radar systems to monitor asset conditions and respond to emergencies.The book will be of interest to practitioners and students in the built environment, including mayors, urban managers, urban planners, developers, lenders, insurers, architects, engineers, project managers, and other consultants, contractors, and suppliers.

Urban Management: Managing Cities In Uncertain Times

Peace Infrastructures

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