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MAPPING VULNERABILITY
₨ 2,760Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture and infrastructure. So what can be done?
The key to understanding the causes of disasteand mitigating their impacts is the concept of ‘vulnerability’. Mapping Vulnerability analyses ‘vulnerability’ as a concept central to the way we understand disasteand their magnitude and impact. Written and edited by a distinguished group of disaster scholaand practitioners, this book is a counterbalance to those technocratic approaches that limit themselves to simply looking at disasteas natural phenomena.
Through the notion of vulnerability, the authostress the importance of social processes and human–environmental interactions as causal agents in the making of disasters. They critically examine what rendecommunities unsafe – a condition, they argue, that depends primarily on the relative position of advantage or disadvantage that a particular group occupies within a society’s social order. The book also looks at vulnerability in terms of its relationship to development and its impact on policy and people’s lives, through consideration of selected case studies drawn from Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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EXPLORING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
₨ 1,740Sustainable development is capturing the attention of planners, politicians and business leaders. Within the academic sphere its study is increasingly breaching disciplinary boundaries to become a focus of attention for natural and social scientists alike. But in studying such a key concept, it is vital that there is a clear definition of what it means, how it is applied on the ground and the influence it exerts upon people’s perceptions of change in the physicial environment, economic activity and society. Exploring Sustainable Development is a major new text which provides a multifaceted introduction to key areas of study in this field, examining sustainability at the full range of spatial scales from the local to the global. Building on existing theory it demonstrates the unique contributions that thinking geographically about space, place and human-environment relationships can bring to the analysis of sustainable development. This book explores different interpretations of sustainable development in both theory and practice, in developed and developing countries, and in rural and urban areas. It pays particular attention to the local, national and international politics of implementation, the future of climate and energy, the role of business, and different conceptions of agricultural sustainability. Contents: Geography and sustainable development • the role of spatial scale and spatial interactions in sustainable development • linking the local to the global – can sustainable development work in practice? • forecasting urban futures – a systems analytical perspective on the development of sustainable urban regions • making cities more sustainable – people, plans and participation • business and sustainable economic development • sustainable agriculture for the 21st century • sustaining the flow – Japanese waterways and new paradigms of development • sustainable futures for the Artic North • climate change, energy and sustainable development • sustainable development and international relations • future perspectives – developing sustainable development.
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THE WAR ON TERROR AND THE NORMALISATION OF URBAN SECURITY
₨ 38,760This book explores the processes by which, in the 20 years after 9/11, the practices of urban security and counter-terrorism have impacted the everyday experiences of the Western city. Highlighting the localised urban responses to new security challenges, it reflects critically upon the historical trajectory of techniques of territorialisation and physical protection, urban surveillance and the increasing need for cities to enhance resilience and prepare for anticipated future attacks and unpacks the practices and impacts of the intensification of recent urban security practices in the name of countering terrorism.
Drawing on over 25 years of research and practical experience, the author utilises a range of international case studies, framed by conceptual ideas drawn from critical security, political and geographical theory.
The book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, war studies, urban studies, geography, sociology, criminology, and the growing market of security and resilience professionals, as well as non-academic audiences seeking to understand responses to terrorist risk.
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CITY AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING
₨ 14,530Many urban and transportation problems, such as traffic congestion, traffic accidents, and environmental burdens, result from poor integration of land use and transportation. This graduate-level textbook outlines strategies for sustainably integrating land use and transportation planning, addressing the impact on land use of advanced transport like light rail transit and autonomous cars, and the emerging focus on cyber space and the role of ICT and big data in city planning.
The text also explores how we can create sustainable cities for the future. In contrast to the “compact city”, which has been proposed as an environmentally friendly urban model, recent years have seen an acceleration in the introduction of ICT-based “smart city”. As people’s lives are drastically changed by COVID-19, a new form of city is being explored. The new concept of a “smart sharing city” is introduced as an urban model that wisely integrates physical and cyber space, and presents a way to solve future urban issues with new technologies.
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THE WALKABLE CITY
₨ 38,760This book explores everyday walking in contemporary urban life. It brings together important theoretical and empirical insights to understand how the ‘walk ability’ of urban spaces can be imagined, planned for, and experienced.
The book focuses on the everyday experiences of the urban walker, the bodily experiences of walking, and different walking research methods. It goes beyond the conventional focus on walk able places by delving into the ways in which urban space is consumed and produced through different ways of walking. Drawing on fieldwork in the UK and international secondary sources, the book examines how walking is socially and materially co-produced, focusing on pedestrian practices, infrastructures, and the social nature of walking. Chapters in the book offer key explorations of the cultural and social inclusions and exclusions of navigating the city on foot. The book considers transport planning and policy promoting pedestrian movement, pedestrian infrastructures, the politics of walking, and social interactions of urban pedestrians. The book offers vital analyses of how different but overlapping dimensions of walking and their relationship with urban space are often overlooked, and the importance of centring the lived experiences of walking in understandings of pedestrian practices.
This book provides a timely contribution to the field of mobilities due to a growing interest in urban walking. It will be of interest to students and scholars of urban studies, human geography, sociology, and public health.
