Urban Planning & Development

Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues. This book highlights the importance of social and political aspects of transport policy and provides a methodology to support this approach.... More

Environmental Consciousness and Urban Planning makes the reader aware of the human and environmental implications of development strategies; it questions the standards through which we measure social development. The tract discusses the urbanisation of India within a global context. The rapid growth... More

* Written by the acknowledged 'guru' of participatory urban development * Provides a vast range of ideas and examples for practising urban development in all contexts, worldwide * Essential reading for practitioners, students and academics in development and urban planning This book is an argument f... More

The Canter text appeals mainly to Civil Engineering students taking course work in environmental assessment practice or impact assessment, usually taught at the junior/senior level as a popular elective. Some chemical and environmental engineers take the course as well. The author has specifically b... More

Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic Information Systems Theory, Practice, and Parcel-Based Approaches Monitoring the supply of buildable land and its capacity to accommodate growth within urbanizing regions is an increasingly important component of urban planning and growth management. Recent dev... More

This book entitled “Environmental Impact Assessment and Management,” embodies 15 chapters covering a wide spectrum. Chapter 1 contain details of EIA, Basic elements and Methodologies. Further, important guidelines to be followed before establishing industries, water related projects and transpor... More

What industrial ecology is and how it may be applied to corporate environmentalism are the subjects of "The Industrial Green Game". Topics include industrial circulation of materials, energy-efficiency strategies, "green" accounting, life-cycle analysis, and other approaches for preserving pollution... More

This book looks at a few indicative aspects of rural infrastructure facilities in India without which the dream of achieving a sustainable economic development will not be achieved. The objective of this book is to take a long and hard look at rural infrastructure in all its aspects and to present e... More

With only two percent of the entire Indian retail landscape dominated by the organized sector, the industry is certainly at an embryonic stage. Organized retailing made its presence felt in the country only during the last decade after the first lot of entrepreneurs set up exclusive outlets. Since t... More

The handbook on participatory rural energy planning is a direct response to the ever-growing need to conceptualize decentralized planning and implementation of rural energy interventions with the active involvement of local communities, especially women; and provide methodological tools to facilitat... More