Sustainable and Resilient Communities: A Comprehensive Action Plan for Towns, Cities, and Regions

  • Stephen Coyle
Wiley: 2011. 419 pp. £57.50

To maintain environmental, economic and social well-being, communities need to be able to adapt to face upheavals such as a global financial crisis, uncertainty about energy prices and availability, rapid demographic shifts and climate change. This book explains how to create and implement a plan for making neighbourhoods, communities and regions more environmentally healthy, resource-conserving and economically resilient.

Confronting Climate Change

  • Constance Lever-Tracey
Rutledge: 2011. 116 pp. £17.99

What are the current and potential future consequences of climate change and how should people confront the politics of climate change? Combining perspectives from sociology, environmental science and politics, this book presents an accessible introduction to the topic. In outlining the key issues, Constance Lever-Tracey advocates how the social and natural sciences must work together, and critically assesses climate policy and politics.