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The riveting and heart-rending narrative of the race to save the last remaining vaquita from extinction.

The father of the local food movement shares how collaboration across the political divide can fix our broken food system.

Using profiles of 47 transit systems in the US, this is appealing resource with the tools for building good transit andavoiding bad transit.

A hopeful look at the ways the sharing economy can transform our food system and challenge corporate agriculture.

A timely revision to the most comprehensive textbook on sustainable energy.

Building on the success of their Global Street Design Guide, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)-Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) Streets for Kids program has developed child-focused design guidance to inspire leaders, inform practitioners, and empower communities around the world to consider their city from the eyes of a child. The guidance in Designing Streets for Kids captures international best practices, strategies, programs, and policies that cities around the world have used to design streets and public spaces that are safe and appealing to children from their earliest days. The guidance also highlights tactics for engaging children in the design process, an often-overlooked approach that can dramatically transform how streets are designed and used.

A fresh approach to greening existing buildings that will give readers an actionable guide.

The collected writings of Hank Dittmar, an internationally renowned planner, pay tribute to his legacy.

The world's leading natural capital experts share practical strategies for investing in nature in a way that both improves human well-being and protects biodiversity.

A gripping narrative about the new reality of wildfire in North America.

An urgent and timely update on a classic book for scientists, giving them the tools to communicate and defend science.

By 2050, we will have ten billion mouths to feed in a world profoundly altered by environmental change. How can we meet this challenge? In How to Feed the World, a diverse group of experts from Purdue University break down this crucial question by tackling big issues one-by-one. Covering population, water, land, climate change, technology, food systems, trade, food waste and loss, health, social buy-in, communication, and, lastly, the ultimate challenge of achieving equal access to food, the book reveals a complex web of factors that must be addressed in order to reach global food security.How to Feed the World unites contributors from different perspectives and academic disciplines, ranging from agronomyand hydrology to agricultural economy and communication. Hailing from Germany, the Philippines, the U.S., Ecuador, and beyond, the contributors weave their own life experiences into their chapters, connecting global issues to our tangible, day-to-day existence. Across every chapter, a similar theme emerges: these are not simple problems, yet we canovercome them. Doing so will require cooperation between farmers, scientists, policy makers, consumers, andmany others.The resulting collection is an accessible but wide-ranging look at the modern food system. Readers will not only get asolid grounding in key issues, but be challenged to investigate further and contribute to the paramount effort to feed theworld.

This contributed volume demonstrates the ways that suburbs can create new urban places and thrive.

The world's leading krill scientist takes readers on a journey to discover the biology and unexpected beauty of krill.

This contributed volume offers techniques for bringing justice and democracy into community design.

Essays by resilience leaders give an essential overview to creating resilient communities.

This urgent book features cutting edge, diverse thinkers in the energy democracy movement.

A journalist exposes new evidence of the dangers of a pervasive pesticide and the corporate influences behind it.

An optimistic book about the history and future of cycling in Europe and the US.

The Urban Street Stormwater Guide provides the best practices for the design of Green Stormwater Infrastructure (GSI) along transportation corridors. By incorporating GSI cities can manage stormwater and reap the public health, environmental, and aesthetic benefits of street trees, planters, and greenery in the public realm.

"That's what we do really: we do miracles," said Anne-Marie Nyiranshimiyimana, who learned masonry in helping to build the Butaro Hospital, a project designed for and with the people of Rwanda using local materials. This, and other projects designed with dignity, show the power of good design.

In Energy Sprawl Solutions, scientists Joseph M. Kiesecker and David Naugle provide a roadmap for preserving biodiversity despite the threats of energy sprawl. Detailed maps and charts help orient readers to countries and energy sectors, providing proof for what is possible.

An optimistic look at the characteristics of resilient cities that will help communities become more sustainable and equitable.

A surprising approach to mediation that draws on principles from many faith traditions.

The latest edition of State of the World addresses the critical challenge of teaching sustainability at all levels of education.

Explores the changing Arctic and why it should matter to the rest of the world. This book offers a clear-eyed look at the rapidly shifting dynamics in the Arctic region, a harbinger of changes that will reverberate throughout our entire world. It offers a combination of extensive on-the-ground research, storytelling, and policy analysis.

As the practical application of ecological restoration continues to grow, there is an increasing need to connect restoration practice to areas of underlying ecological theory. Foundations of Restoration Ecology is an important milestone in the field, bringing together leading ecologists to bridge the gap between theory and practice by translating elements of ecological theory and currresearch themes into a scientific framework for the field of restoration ecology.Each chapter addresses a particular area of ecological theory, covering traditional levels of biological hierarchy (such as population genetics, demography, community ecology) as well as topics of central relevance to the challenges of restoration ecology (such as species interactions, fine-scale heterogeneity, successional trajectories, invasive species ecology, ecophysiology). Several chapters focus on research tools (research design, statistical analysis, modeling), or place restoration ecology research in a larger context (large-scale ecological phenomena, macroecology, climate change and paleoecology, evolutionary ecology).The book makes a compelling case that a stronger connection between ecological theory and the science of restoration ecology will be mutually beneficial for both fields: restoration ecology benefits from a stronger grounding in basic theory, while ecological theory benefits from the unique opportunities for experimentation in a restoration context.Foundations of Restoration Ecology advances the science behind the practice of restoring ecosystems while exploring ways in which restoration ecology can inform basic ecological questions. It provides the first comprehensive overview of the theoretical foundations of restoration ecology, and is a must-have volume for anyone involved in restoration research, teaching, or practice.

An exploration of U.S. food policy that reveals the unexpected ways regulations can thwart sustainable practices.