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Advances in Environmental Sustainability
This proceedings volume presents the selected papers from the 2022 8th International Conference on Advances in Environment Research (ICAER 2022), held as an online event from April 22-24. The papers presented at the meeting and published here cover issues of environmental sustainability from both ecological and socioeconomic perspectives, including but not limited to cutting-edge topics such as biogas, green building design, climate change, and sustainable forest management. This book aims to educate readers on how sustainability research can help society understand and combat our most pressing environmental challenges. The proceedings will be helpful for graduate students, researchers, environmental planners, and industry professionals interested in understanding the utility of environmental sustainability research for improving our lives and sustaining our planet.
Procesos urbanos y sustentabilidad
Ante los retos y contradicciones que enfrenta el desarrollo sustentable, las contribuciones de esta obra sirven para detectar los puntos ciegos de su discurso, así como aquellos momentos en los que su práctica se encuentra ante callejones sin salida. Sus casos de estudio delatan problemas particulares en la generación de políticas urbanas sustentables: participación ciudadana y grupos sociales marginados son algunos de ellos.
Hacia la periferia
Existe un fenómeno en las principales ciudades mexicanas cuya eclosión se extiende desde las últimas dos décadas y que impone cierta consternación sobre las formas para explicar la vida en las ciudades. Desde la década de 1990, se ha revelado una forma de producir y habitar la metrópoli que rompe con los moldes tradicionales de vida urbana e incluso suburbana. Fruto de ciertas políticas neoliberales de gestión del territorio, tendentes a privatizar tierras rurales que antes eran comunales, y a dejar en manos del mercado la ordenación territorial, las periferias urbanas se han consolidado como una realidad más. Con anterioridad, los espacios periurbanos se iban anexionando a las ci...
Los múltiples caminos a la subsistencia
Cuando se piensa en la naturaleza de los territorios no centrales en una metrópoli, es necesario situar a las poblaciones y los espacios que no han recibido el foco principal de atención de las políticas y las inversiones urbanas. Si bien los grandes proyectos de rehabilitación, que resitúan ciertos espacios urbanos dentro del escenario de movilidades e inversiones nacionales e internacionales, están pensados para dinamizar realidades urbanas muy concretas y mejorar sus condiciones de vida, situarse en los contextos no centrales implica vivir en la penumbra de la atención pública y en el seno de un buen número de dificultades para la subsistencia cotidiana. Los imperativos de la com...
The End of Automobile Dependence
Cities will continue to accommodate the automobile, but when cities are built around them, the quality of human and natural life declines. Current trends show great promise for future urban mobility systems that enable freedom and connection, but not dependence. We are experiencing the phenomenon of peak car use in many global cities at the same time that urban rail is thriving, central cities are revitalizing, and suburban sprawl is reversing. Walking and cycling are growing in many cities, along with ubiquitous bike sharing schemes, which have contributed to new investment and vitality in central cities including Melbourne, Seattle, Chicago, and New York. We are thus in a new era that has ...
Miradas contemporáneas de política pública
El Centro Universitario de Tonalá ofrece desde la experiencia de sus profesores distintas perspectivas sobre lo que son hoy las políticas públicas. Esta obra dota al lector de herramientas analíticas y aborda temáticas novedosas para el debate como la política tecnológica, el uso de medios alternativos de solución de conflictos, la autonomía financiera y la deuda pública, la agenda y la normatividad de la migración institucional de México, la evaluación de políticas públicas o la profesionalización de directivos en el sector público, entre otros, con la intención de ayudarlo a comprender la acción pública soberana y la política pública en su sentido sectorial y territorial.
The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City
In this book, Hae explores how nightlife in NYC, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed as the city has undergone gentrification, and how this transformation has dampened urban inhabitants' rights to the uses of urban space and access to diverse urban cultures.
In the Company of Cars
It has long been accepted that the social and cultural meanings of the car far exceed the practical need for mobility. This book marks the first attempt to contribute to road safety, considering, in depth, these meanings and the cultures of driving that are shaped by them. In the Company of Cars examines the perspectives that young people have on cars, and explores the broader social and cultural meanings of the car, the potential it is supposed to fulfil, and the anticipated benefits it offers to young drivers. From focus-group research conducted in Australia, the book takes up the views of young people on a range of topics, from media to car use to gender performance. The author looks at the ways in which driving has been defined by articulations of the car that emphasize valued features of the car-driver, such as gender, youthfulness, status, age, power, raciness, sexiness, ruggedness and competitiveness. The book takes a global perspective on mobility, considering the impact of cars and road safety policy on quality of life, and the value and significance of other modes of travel, in a range of countries.
Fear of Crime
This is an examination of the factors that contribute to the risk of being victimized, such as crime rates and environmental and personal variables.
Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective
This book reconnects class and the urban through an ethnographically detailed analysis of a neighbourhood undergoing gentrification which historicises class formation, critiques policy processes and offers a new sociological insight into gentrification from the perspective of working-class residents. This ethnography of everyday working-class neighbourhood life in the UK serves to challenge denigrated depictions which are used to justify the use of gentrification-based restructuring. By exploring the relationship between urban processes and working-class communities via gentrification, it reveals the ‘hidden rewards’ as well as the ‘hidden injuries’ of class in post-industrial neighbourhoods.
