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The ability to adapt to a changing environment has ensured the continued survival of the human race into the 21^st century. The challenges to be faced in this century are now well documented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The effects of drought, melting polar ice and increased incidences of extreme weather events will impact on the diverse landscapes of the earth and a human population predicted to be 9 billion by the middle of the 21^st century, a three-fold increase in less than one hundred years.

This book provides a valuable...

The ability to adapt to a changing environment has ensured the continued survival of the human race into the 21^st century. The challenges to be faced in this century are now well documented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The effects of drought, melting polar ice and increased incidences of extreme weather events will impact on the diverse landscapes of the earth and a human population predicted to be 9 billion by the middle of the 21^st century, a three-fold increase in less than one hundred years.

This book provides a valuable...

"Eco-Urban Design" focuses on the unprecedented challenges currently faced by architects and designers. In a world where climate change, diminishing natural resources and an increasing global population have become indisputable facts of life there is now a rising demand for evolved buildings that no longer endanger the Earth's fragile ecological systems.

This book endeavours to tell the positive side of the story by featuring considered design solutions provided by the world's most innovative architects and engineers. By only including realised projects which have been subjected to...

The History of American Homeopathy traces the rise of lay practitioners in shaping homeopathy as a healing system and its...