Wendy Steele

Tooran Alizadeh

Leila Eslami-Andargoli

Silvia Serrao-Neumann

The fixity or mobility of borders are key themes within the border studies literature and have useful critical application to urban and environmental planning through theory, pedagogy and practice. This offers potential for transformative change through the processes of re-bordering and re-orienting established boundary demarcations in ways that support and promote sustainability in a climate of change. Planning Across Borders in a Climate of Change draws on a range of diverse case studies from Australasia, North and South America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and offers the application of border theory, concepts and principles to planning as a critical lens. It applies this lens to a range of international case studies in key areas such as climate change adaptation, food security, spatial planning, critical infrastructure and urban ecology. This collection fills an important gap in the border studies literature, bringing climate change considerations to bear on planning. It should be of interest to students, scholars and professionals in the field of urban and environmental planning, climate change adaptation, border studies, urban studies, human and political geography, environmental studies and development.

Planning Across Borders in a Climate of Change

Rachel arrives in Wales to begin a new life but will Marcus jeopardise their future together before it's begun? Candy knows the punishment for leaving Station 23 unguarded. Will she succeed in convincing Paul to obey the Lesson? Fern loves her life in the village but when the Tall Folk arrive with metal working skills, will her peace be shattered forever? Though distanced by time and space, three women find the Standing Stone and the teachings of the Great Mother, Binah.

The Standing Stone - Home for Christmas

Lizzie Martin has chosen pottery to be her new career...But the teacher from hell threatens to thwart her ambitions before she starts.She has support from her best friend Louise and Evan, another pottery tutor, but Rowan, her fifteen year old daughter is restless, Josh, her ex-husband is colluding with her aunt and though her mother is alive, access to her is forbidden. When The Morrigan appears in her sacred circle, Lizzie knows she has a battle on her hands.There is hope though.Stardust the chicken brings a new creature into Lizzie's life and a long awaited meeting with her Aunt Matilda brings Lizzie's past into perspective.Lizzie's magic ventures beyond The Sanctuary, into the Welsh landscape and the realms of the fae.

The Flowerpot Witch

Traumatic events in her childhood, send Angel Parsons upon a different life path. Fifteen years later, with the help of her new 'family' and the resurrected relationship with Jenny Parkes, her only friend from school, Angel confronts the perpetrators of her misery. Rather than seeking revenge and to free herself from her past, Angel uses the skills she has acquired to offer her persecutors the chance of redemption. Will Angel fulfil her destiny and put her past behind her or will the demons she unleashes consume herself and her 'family' and leave her empty and alone once more?

First Book in the Lilith Trilogy

Destiny of Angels

Lizzie Martin's new boss has asked her to 'bare all' and become more corporate. For Lizzie, swapping paisley for pin stripe is like asking a parrot to wear pea hen. She has to choose between her job and her integrity, cope with an unexpected stay in hospital, monitor her fourteen year old daughter's latest crush, continue seeking the truth about her father's death and juggle two new men in her life. There is hope though. At the bottom of the garden is a little wooden shed that Lizzie calls Sanctuary. Within its warm and welcoming walls, Lizzie surrounds herself with magic...

The Naked Witch

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges and opportunities of wild cities in a climate of change. A key focus of the book is exploring the nexus of possibilities for wild cities and the eco-ethical imagination needed to drive sustainable and resilient urban pathways. Many now have serious doubts about the prospects for humanity to live within cities that are socially just and responsive to planetary limits. Is it possible for planning to better serve, protect and nurture our human and non-human worlds? This book argues it is. Drawing on international literature and Australian case examples, this book explores issues around climate change, colonization, urban (in)security and the rights to the city for both humans and nature. It is within this context that this book focuses on the urgent need to better understand how contemporary cities have changed, and the relational role of planning within it. Planning Wild Cities will be of particular interest to students and scholars of planning, urban studies, and sustainable development, and for all those invested in re-shaping our ‘wild’ city futures.

Human–Nature Relationships in the Urban Age

Planning Wild Cities

Lizzie Martin is grieving. A road trip to Wales with her best friend, Louise should help and while she's there, she wants to find her real mother and the truth about her father.Lizzie returns home to discover her old boss, Edward Brown, is manipulating her life from prison. She must deflect angry phone calls from her ex-husband, consider a house move and new career path and become a modern day Boudicca, protecting those she cares about.There is hope though.The squirrels are on her side, the rescued chickens love their new home and, inspired by the Welsh landscape, Lizzie takes her magic out of The Sanctuary.

The Orphan Witch

Jason Byrne

Jean Hillier

Diana MacCallum

Donna Houston

This book focuses on the potential and possibilities for socially innovative responses to the climate emergency at the local scale. Climate change has intensified the need for communities to find creative and meaningful ways to address the sustainability of their environments. The authors focus on the creative and collaborative ways local- scale climate action reflects the extra-ordinary measures taken by ordinary people. This includes critical engagement with the ways in which novel social practices and partnerships emerge between people, organisations, institutions, governance arrangements and eco-systems. The book successfully highlights the transformative power of socially innovative activities and initiatives in response to the climate crisis; and critically explores how different individuals and groups undertake climate action as ‘quiet activism’ – the embodied acts of collective disruption, subversion, creativity and care at the local scale.

Wendy Steele

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