This book is concerned with international regulation, negotiation and policy-making in the environmental realm. In particular, it focuses on toxic chemicals, and the ways in which risk associated with hazardous…

Once one understands the nature and magnitude of defuturing as the negation of world futures, how one has to account for the history and making of the material world -…

In the heart of London, a concerned citizen is taking action: doing something about those everyday irritants that serve to increase the stresses of city life. Spitting out chewing gum…

Risk Society and School Educational Policy explores the impact of risk society on policy globally through both practical and theoretical perspectives. The book both develops an in-depth understanding of risk…

This work attempts a comparative description and analysis, focusing on the US, the UK and Australia on the topic of the Right, educational policy and schooling.

Timber sourcing is shifting from extraction from natural forests to forms of cultivation that are increasingly agricultural in nature. This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to examine the socio-political, biophysical…

Written by leading design philosopher Tony Fry, Writing Design Fiction: Relocating a City in Crisis is both an introduction to the power of design fiction in the design process, and…

This study traces the development of precision measurement systems from traditional instrumentation, through miniature devices, to the realm of nanotechnology. Nanotechnology itself is considered with a review covering a range…