Alistair Rieu-Clarke

Andrew Allan

Sarah Hendry

Water plays a key role in addressing the most pressing global challenges of our time, including climate change adaptation, food and energy security, environmental sustainability and the promotion of peace and stability. This comprehensive handbook explores the pivotal place of law and policy in efforts to ensure that water enables positive responses to these challenges and provides a basis for sound governance. The book reveals that significant progress has been made in recent decades to strengthen the governance of water resource management at different scales, including helping to address international and sub-national conflicts over transboundary water resources. It demonstrates that ‘effective’ laws and policies are fundamental drivers for the safe, equitable and sustainable utilization of water. However, it is also shown that what might constitute an effective law or policy related to water resources management is still hotly debated. As such, the handbook provides an important and definitive reference text for all studying water governance and management.

Routledge Handbook of Water Law and Policy

You Can't Sell That On Television...Just when infomercial writer, Walt Asher, has a perfect Sunday afternoon with his luscious lady lined up, his plans get blown to hell. That's when hell-raiser extraordinaire DG calls to cash in an outstanding favor. No questions. No answers. It's not a request. Walt's ride has arrived...Whisked away to the woods along Florida's Gulf coast, Walt finds himself in a secret smuggler's warehouse, surrounded by bikers with big guns, and facing the strangest assignment of his life: Write an infomercial selling DG's eleven ton mountain of marijuana. Illegal? Yep. Insane? Yep. Impossible? Not for Walt. He always finds the right words to sell. But, when bullets start to blast the "studio" apart, will Walt find the right words - and weapons - to make it out alive? This is the first Walt Asher Novella. It takes place after KILLERS, BIKERS & FREAKS, but can be read independently of that novel.

Sell Shock: a Walt Asher Florida Thriller

Armageddon! ; Before and After. By Andrew Allan

John Stillwell

Chris Pettit

Stan Geertman

This book offers a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) Conference, held in the second week of July 2017 at the University of South Australia in Adelaide. It provides a state-of-the-art overview of the availability and application of planning support systems (PSS) in the context of smart cities, big data, and urban futures. Rapid advances in computing, information, communication and web-based technologies are reaching into all facets of urban life, creating new and exciting urban futures. With the universal adoption of networked computing technologies, data generation is now so massive and all pervasive in society that it offers unprecedented technological solutions for planning and managing urban futures. These technologies are essential to effective urban planning and urban management in an increasingly challenging world, with socially disruptive changes, more complex and sophisticated urban lives and the need for resilience to deal with the possibility of adverse future environmental events and climate change. The book discusses examples of these technologies which encompass, inter alia: ‘smart urban futures’, where cities with myriad sensors are networked with communication technologies that enable the city planners to monitor well-being and be responsive to citizens' needs to allow dynamic management in real-time; PSS that encompass new hardware, develop new indicators, applications and innovative ways of facilitating public and community involvement in the management and planning of urban areas; and urban modelling that draws on theory and the richness of data from the growing range of urban sensing and communication technologies to build a better understanding of urban dynamics, trends and 'what-if' scenario investigations, and to provide better tools for planning and policymaking.

Andrew Allan

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