Law / Public / Urbanism

The Pleasure of the Crown: Anthropology, Law and First Nations

by Dara Culhane – Talonbooks (October 10, 2014)

An in-depth analysis of the history of the Aboriginal title issue in British Columbia, particularly the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en case.

Our National Parks

by John Muir & Terry Gifford – Vertebrate Digital (September 01, 2018)

‘Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away ... God has cared for these trees ... but he cannot save them from fools – only Uncle Sam can do that.’

First published in 1901, Our National Parks is possibly...

Assessing Urban Governance

by Luisa Moretto – Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc (January 19, 2015)

When examining the relationship between urban governance and improved service provision in the Global South, there is frequently a gap between the rhetoric and the reality. Informal, practice-based local governance...

European and Asian Sustainable Towns

by Pascaline Gaborit – Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc (July 25, 2014)

In the face of growing needs and problems around urbanization, the sustainable development of cities does not lie only in technology, research and innovation. Sustainable local development also results from...

Trading Zones in Environmental Education

by Marianne E. Krasny & Justin Dillon – Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers (October 15, 2013)

Environmental educators often adhere to a relatively narrow theoretical paradigm focusing on changing attitudes and knowledge, which are assumed to foster pro-environmental behaviors, which, in turn, leads to...

NAMA-Land

by Frank Connolly – Gill Books (November 03, 2017)

The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) was created in 2009 to contain the spiralling fallout from Ireland’s property crisis. Its job as Ireland’s ‘bad bank’ was to act impartially to get the maximum...

Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

by Laurie Macfarlane, Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd & John Muellbauer – Zed Books (February 28, 2017)

Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn’t land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system...

Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider's Stand against the World's Most Powerful Industry

by Andrew Nikiforuk – Greystone Books (September 05, 2015)

The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing — “fracking” — as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local...