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  • SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
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    SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
    NICHOLAS LOW
    This book argues that social transformation is both necessary and possible if democracies are to respond effectively to the climate crisis without social collapse. Climate transformation and social transformation are intimately connected. Understanding how to address climate change requires a historical approach both to the climate and to our collective institutions of humanity...

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  • INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS TO SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT
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    INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS TO SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT
    CAREY CURTIS / NICHOLAS LOW
    In a world seeking to tackle global environmental problems such as climate change, the importance of local and national institutional change to deal most effectively with these issues is critical. This book presents an investigation of the institutional barriers preventing the development of a new vision for urban transport compatible with these realities and in those terms 'su...

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  • THE GREEN CITY
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    THE GREEN CITY
    NICHOLAS LOW / BRENDON GLEESON / RAY GREEN / DARKO RADOVIC
    A team of city-building professionals explain in straightforward terms how the idea of ecological sustainability can be embodied in the everyday life of homes, communities and cities to make a better future.The book considers - and answers - three questions: What does the global agenda of sustainable development mean for the urban spaces where most ...

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  • PLANNING, POLITICS AND THE STATE
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    PLANNING, POLITICS AND THE STATE
    NICHOLAS LOW
    First Published in 1990. John Maynard Keynes once made the bold prediction that the three- hour work day would prevail for his grandchildren's generation. Seventy years later, the question of working time is as pertinent as it was at the inception of the 40-hour week. Not until now, however, has there been a global comparative analysis of working time laws, policies and actual ...

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  • TRANSFORMING URBAN TRANSPORT
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    TRANSFORMING URBAN TRANSPORT
    LOW, NICHOLAS
    Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must be changed from auto-based mobility to systems of sustainable transport in whic...

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  • GLOBAL ETHICS AND ENVIRONMENT
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    GLOBAL ETHICS AND ENVIRONMENT
    NICHOLAS LOW
    As global capitalism expands and reaches ever-further corners of the world, practical problems continue to escalate and repercussions become increasingly serious and irreversible. These practical problems carry with them equally important and ethical issues. Global Ethics and Environment explores these ethical issues from a range of perspectives and using a wide range of case s...

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  • JUSTICE, SOCIETY AND NATURE
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    JUSTICE, SOCIETY AND NATURE
    BRENDAN GLEESON / NICHOLAS LOW
    Justice, Society and Nature examines the moral response which the world must make to the ecological crisis if there is to be real change in the global society and economy to favour ecological integrity. From its base in the idea of the self, through principles of political justice, to the justice of global institutions, the authors trace the layered structure of the philosophy ...

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