This innovative Research Companion considers the history, nature and status of construction economics, and its need for development as a field in order to be recognised as a distinct discipline. It presents a state-of-the-art review of construction economics, identifying areas for further...

Part I: Setting the scene -- Introduction: an economy within the environment -- The whistle-blowers -- Part II: Economic schools and the environment -- Neoclassical economics -- Environmental economics -- Ecological economics -- Green economics -- Anti-capitalist economics -- Part III: Issues...

From IWC to BWT: Canada-US Institution Building,1902-1909 / David Whorley -- Construction of a Keystone: How Local Concerns and International Geopolitics Created the First Water Management Mechanisms on the Canada-US Border / Meredith Denning -- The International Joint Commission and Water...

"Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Is it true, as ideologues like Friedrich Von Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand have claimed, that planning leads to dictatorship, that the state is wholly destructive, and that prosperity is owed entirely to the...

"Canada is known for being an energy producing nation--with much attention being paid to the Alberta tar sands and their large carbon footprint. This book looks at a very different part of the Canadian energy sector: the hundreds of renewable energy co-ops that have sprung up across the nation....

"Although there is considerable historical literature describing the social and economic impact of drought on the prairies in the 1930s, little has been written about the challenges presented by drought in more contemporary times. The drought of 2001-02 was, for example, the most recent...

Part I. Big Pictures, Small Details -- 1. Ex-ports: The Laboratory Role of the London Docklands / Han Meyer -- 2. Smokestack: The Industrial History of Thames Gateway / John Marriott -- 3. One Hundred and Twenty Years of Regeneration, from East London to the Thames Gateway: Fluctuations of...