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As you may have seen, this summer Policy Press published a number of exciting new titles in urban and environmental studies. Details of these titles are below.
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LATEST TITLES
Mapping environmental sustainability: Reflecting on systemic practices for participatory research
Edited by Sue Oreszczyn and Andy Lane
Hardback £75.00 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3157-5; epub £26.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3531-3; Amazon Kindle £26.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3532-0; epdf ISBN: 978-1-4473-3158-2
Explains the development of visual mapping techniques with practical case studies that describe their application in environmental sustainability projects, from working with farmers and their networks to using visual mapping with indigenous
communities and managing coastal environments.
Why Detroit matters: Decline, renewal and hope in a divided city
Edited by Brian Doucet
Paperback £25.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2787-5; epub £25.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2790-5; Amazon Kindle £25.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2791-2; epdf ISBN: 978-1-4473-2789-9
This edited book examines why what happens in Detroit matters for other cities around the world. Bridging academic and non-academic voices, contributions from many of the leading scholars on Detroit are joined by some of the city’s most
influential writers, planners, artists and activists.
The human atlas of Europe: A continent united in diversity
By Dimitris Ballas, Danny Dorling and Benjamin Hennig
Paperback £20.00 ISBN: 978-1-4473-1354-0; epdf ISBN: 978-1-4473-3290-9
Written by leading international authors, this timely atlas explores Europe’s society, culture, economy, politics and environment using state of the
art mapping techniques. It addresses fundamental questions around social cohesion and sustainable growth as Europe negotiates the UK’s exit while continuing through the economic crisis.
Towards just and sustainable economies: The social
and solidarity economy North and South
Edited by Peter North and Molly Scott Cato
Hardback £75.00 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2722-6; epub £24.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2726-4; Amazon Kindle £24.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2727-1; epdf ISBN: 978-1-4473-2725-7
Academics from a range of disciplines and from a number of European and Latin American countries come together to question what it means to have a ‘sustainable society’ and to ask what role alternative social and solidarity economies can
play.
Localism and neighbourhood planning: Power to the people?
Edited by Sue Brownill and Quintin Bradley
Paperback £26.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2950-3; epub £26.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2952-7; Amazon Kindle £26.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2953-4; epdf ISBN: 978-1-4473-2951-0
A critical analysis of neighbourhood planning. Setting empirical evidence from the UK against international examples, the Editors engage in broader debates on the purposes of planning and the devolution of power to localities.
By Garth Myers
Hardback £70.00 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2291-7; Paperback £24.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2292-4; epub £24.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2295-5; Amazon Kindle £24.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-2296-2; epdf ISBN: 978-1-4473-2294-8
Explores the impact of Africa’s rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging the clash between Western focus on sustainable development and the lived realities of residents of often poor, informal
settlements.
COMING SOON
Environment in the lives of children and families: Perspectives from India and the UK
By Ann Phoenix, Janet Boddy, Catherine Walker and Uma Vennam
Hardback £45.00 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3919-9; epub £8.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3920-5; Amazon Kindle £8.99 ISBN: 978-1-4473-3921-2;
Based on involved creative, qualitative work with families in India and the UK who live in different contexts, this book illuminates how environmental practices are negotiated within families, and how they relate to values, identities,
and society.
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