Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: peter nijkamp

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  • URBAN EMPIRES
    EDWARD GLAESER / PETER NIJKAMP / KARIMA KOURTIT
    We live in the ‘urban century’. Cities all over the world – in both developing and developed countries – display complex evolutionary patterns. Urban Empires charts the backgrounds, mechanisms, drivers, and consequences of these radical changes in our contemporary systems from a global perspective and analyses the dominant position of modern cities in the ‘New Urban World’. Thi...

    $1,839.00

  • SUSTAINABLE CITIES IN EUROPE
    PETER NIJKAMP / ADRIAAN PERRELS
    Although urbanization steadily increases, many modern cities are finding the accommodation of their populations an increasingly difficult task. Planners and policy-makers battling to alleviate the problem with a host of urban renewal initiatives have made environmental issues and policies central to their quest for urban sustainability.;Drawing on the CITIES programme of the EC...

    $1,139.00

  • THE EMERGING ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY IN EU ACCESSION COUNTRIES
    PETER NIJKAMP
    This title was first published in 2003. Since 1990, Central and Eastern European countries have experienced increased economic integration with the European Union. The spatial implications of this process have been little investigated so far. Have patterns of regional specialization and industrial concentration changed during the 1990s? How does regional specialization relate t...

    $859.00

  • SUSTAINABLE CITIES IN EUROPE
    PETER NIJKAMP / ADRIAAN PERRELS
    Worldwide, urbanization is steadily increasing, yet many modern cities are becoming less and less able to accommodate the growth in their population. Congestion, pollution, low-quality housing, social fragmentation, noise, crime and inadequate social services all contribute to a declining quality of urban life. Planners and policy makers are battling to alleviate the problems w...

    $1,139.00

  • SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT VOLUME 2
    DEAKIN, MARK / MITCHELL, GORDON / NIJKAMP, PETER / VREEKER, RON
    In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set out in Volume 1, Volume 2 examines how well the environmental assessment methods evaluate the ecological integrity of urban dev...

    $1,499.00

  • UNFARE SOLUTIONS
    ENOCH, MARCUS / NIJKAMP, PETER / POTTER, STEPHEN / UBBELS, BARRY
    Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities. Tackling car use and realising a sustainable transport system appears to be very difficult. Developing public transport is seen as an increasingly important element in improving the transport system, especially in densely populated areas. At the same time however, gov...

    $1,139.00

  • EUROPEAN TRANSPORT POLICY AND SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY
    JONAS AKERMAN / DAVID BANISTER / KARL DREBORG / PETER NIJKAMP / RUGGERO SCHLEICHER-TAPPESER / DOMINIC STE
    It is now widely accepted that transport is becoming increasingly unsustainable and that strong policy intervention is required to reduce both the growth in transport demand and the environmental costs of transport. This book challenges conventional approaches to transport by moving away from trend based analysis towards the use of scenarios to identify alternative sustainable ...

    $1,439.00

  • TRADITIONAL FOOD PRODUCTION AND RURAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    TERESA DE NORONHA VAZ / PETER NIJKAMP
    The worldwide interest in sustainable development has not only prompted ecological developments in policy and research in key sectors such as industry or transportation, but also in the management and assessment of new lifestyles such as healthy food consumption and sustainable use of products. In this context, agriculture is an important example because of its dual nature as b...

    $859.00