Land Use And Environmental Change Due To Urban Sprawl

Author : Basudeb Bhatta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642052996

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Analysis of Urban Growth and Sprawl from Remote Sensing Data by Basudeb Bhatta Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on urban growth and sprawl, and how they can be analyzed using remote sensing imageries. It compiles views of numerous researchers that help in understanding the urban growth and sprawl; their patterns, process, causes, consequences, and countermeasures; how remote sensing data and geographic information system techniques can be used in mapping, monitoring, measuring, analyzing, and simulating the urban growth and sprawl and what are the merits and demerits of available methods and models. This book will be of value for the scientists and researchers engaged in urban geographic research, especially using remote sensing imageries. This book will serve as a rigours literature review for them. Post graduate students of urban geography or urban/regional planning may refer this book as additional studies. This book may help the academicians for preparing lecture notes and delivering lectures. Industry professionals may also be benefited from the discussed methods and models along with numerous citations.

Author : Syed Muzamil Mujtaba
Publisher : Daya Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 8170351340

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Land Use and Environmental Change Due to Urban Sprawl by Syed Muzamil Mujtaba Pdf

The book identifies the changing land use pattern and associated environmental and planging problems due to the haphazard urban growth. It is one of the finest demonstrations of utillizations of Satellite Remote Sensing Technology in monitoring and mapping land used and change detection for urban and land use planging.

Author : William Acevedo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Land use, Urban
ISBN : UIUC:30112112927428

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Rates, Trends, Causes, and Consequences of Urban Land-use Change in the United States by William Acevedo Pdf

Author : Howard Frumkin,Lawrence Frank,Richard J. Jackson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114330975

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Urban Sprawl and Public Health by Howard Frumkin,Lawrence Frank,Richard J. Jackson Pdf

'Urban Sprawl and Public Health' offers a survey of the impact that the built environment can have on the health of the people who inhabit our cities. The authors go on to suggest ways in which the design of cities could be improved & have a positive impact on the well-being of their citizens.

Author : Margarit Mircea Nistor
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128232651

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Climate and Land Use Impacts on Natural and Artificial Systems by Margarit Mircea Nistor Pdf

Climate and Land Use Impacts on Natural and Artificial Systems: Mitigation and Adaptation provides in-depth information on the linkages between climate change and land use, how they are related, how land use is shifting over time, and the major global regions at risk for climate and land use changes. This comprehensive resource discusses climatic factors and processes that impact natural and artificial systems, as well as the relationship between climate change and both natural and man-made hazards. The book includes case studies and original maps to provide real-life examples of climate change and land use over regions around the globe. In addition, the book presents future perspectives on mitigation and adaptation of the climate change impact. Summarizes current research on land use and climate change Provides future perspectives on climate change using climate models Includes case studies to provide real-life examples from various countries Incorporates high level graphics, images, and maps to support reviews and case studies

Author : Chris Couch,Gerhard Petschel-Held,Lila Leontidou
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780470691342

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Urban Sprawl in Europe by Chris Couch,Gerhard Petschel-Held,Lila Leontidou Pdf

Urban sprawl is one of the most important types of land-use changes currently affecting Europe. It increasingly creates major impacts on the environment (via surface sealing, emissions by transport and ecosystem fragmentation); on the social structure of an area (by segregation, lifestyle changes and neglecting urban centres); and on the economy (via distributed production, land prices, and issues of scale). Urban Sprawl in Europe: landscapes, land-use change & policy explains the nature and dynamics of urban sprawl. The book is written in three parts. Part I considers contemporary definitions, theories and trends in European urban sprawl. In part II authors draw upon experiences from across Europe to consider urban sprawl from a number of perspectives: Infrastructure-related sprawl, such as can be seen around Athens; Sprawl in the post-socialist city, as typified by Warsaw, Leipzig and Ljubljana; Decline and sprawl, where a comparative analysis of Liverpool and Leipzig shows that sprawl is not confined to expanding cities; Sprawl based on the development of second homes as found in Sweden, Austria and elsewhere. In part III a formal qualitative model of sprawl is developed. Policies for the control of urban sprawl and the roles of different stakeholders are considered. Finally, a concluding chapter raises questions about the nature and dynamics of these new urban landscapes and their sustainability.

Author : Bharath H Aithal,T.V. Ramachandra
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000045420

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Urban Growth Patterns in India by Bharath H Aithal,T.V. Ramachandra Pdf

This book uses spatio-temporal analysis to understand urbanisation in Indian cities and explain the concept and impact of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It creates a GHG footprint for Indian cities and engages in a discussion about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and smart city initiatives within an Indian context. Understanding the spatial patterns of land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics in the rapidly urbanising cities of India, the readers will be able to simulate future urbanisation patterns and use spatial temporal analysis as a tool for implementing appropriate mitigation measures. Features Analyses the complete urbanisation and urban sprawl of major cities in India using advanced geospatial modelling techniques Highlights the best practices and methods used in modelling urban growth Discusses greenhouse gas emissions from various sectors and their effects in local environments Addresses the increase of local temperature in cities due to unplanned land use change and its impact on environmental sustainability and resilience Fills the need for data-driven governance and policy decisions by introducing various analyses through spatial mapping Highlighting some of the best practices and tools being used for modelling urban growth through case studies, the book is useful to those interested in using new technologies and methods for data collection and problem solving. It focuses on the major environmental issues in India, which are prevalent in most developing countries.

Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : FrancoAngeli
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788891735096

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Growing Compact by AA. VV. Pdf

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Author : Reid H. Ewing
Publisher : Urban Land Institute
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : NWU:35556030757751

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Growing Cooler by Reid H. Ewing Pdf

Based on a comprehensive study review by leading urban planning researchers, this investigative document demonstrates how urban development is both a key contributor to climate change and an essential factor in combating it -- by reducing vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.

Author : William B Honachefsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351453912

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Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning by William B Honachefsky Pdf

In the decades following the first Earth Day in 1970, a generation has been enlightened about the unspeakable damage done to our planet. Federal, state, and local governments generated laws and regulations to control development and protect the environment. Local governments have developed environmental standards addressing their needs. The result-an ecologically incongruous pattern of land development known as urban sprawl. Local land use planners can have a greater effect on the quality of our environment than all of the federal and state regulators combined. Historically, they have existed on the periphery of land management. The author suggests that federal and state environmental regulators need to incorporate local governments into their environmental protection plans. Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning provides easily understood, nuts and bolts solutions for controlling urban sprawl, emphasizing the integration of federal, state, and local land use plans. The book discusses ecological resources and provides practical solutions that municipal planners can implement immediately. It discusses the most recent scientific data, how to extract what is important, and how to apply it to the local land planning process. The author includes the application of the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to problem solving. Despite compelling evidence and sound arguments favoring the implementation of an ecologically sensitive approach to land use planning, municipal planners, in general, remain skeptical. It will take considerably more encouragement and education to win them over completely. Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning makes the case for sound land use policies that will reduce sprawl.

Author : Jane Silberstein, M.A.,Chris Maser
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1566703255

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Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development by Jane Silberstein, M.A.,Chris Maser Pdf

Is the doomsday scenario inevitable? With our increasingly diminishing natural habitat and other natural resources, it seems that we are headed in that direction. After centuries of patchwork land planning, out-of-scale development and cookbook methods, it is clear that we need a better way. Authors Silberstein and Maser explore a different scenario in Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development. The authors review the foundations of current land use practices from historical, constitutional, economic, ecological, and societal perspectives. They analyze the results of these practices and suggest alternative methods for guiding, directing, and controlling the ways in which we modify the landscape. They make the case that we-as humans-have the capacity for community with all life and can ultimately embrace the notion that individual well-being is wrapped up in the well-being of the whole, and that social change can occur before major disasters require it. This is the first book to incorporate land-use planning with sustainability. The authors offer a perspective that opens a range of possibilities for changing current methods. They tackle the difficult dilemma of creating consensus among people-tapping the powers of mind, intuition, and experience in developing a sustainable community. Using sustainability as a framework, Silberstein and Maser present the underlying concepts of sustainable land-use planning. With Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Development, you will discover an array of ideas for modifying conventional planning for and regulation of the development of land.

Author : Hasnat, G. N. Tanjina,Hossain, Mohammed Kamal
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781799843733

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Examining International Land Use Policies, Changes, and Conflicts by Hasnat, G. N. Tanjina,Hossain, Mohammed Kamal Pdf

Though conflicts continue to arise over land use and land cover changes, the conversion of forest land to cropland or other land uses such as housing and urban development have been on the rise in recent years. Decisions regarding land use and land cover influence climate change as well as various natural processes. While proper changes can minimize the effects and speed of climatic changes, the continued adverse changes may be accelerating the deterioration of the world’s condition. Examining International Land Use Policies, Changes, and Conflicts presents the latest research on the present status of land use and land cover changes throughout the world in order to determine appropriate land use policies that can protect earth’s present and future condition. The findings of the studies investigate the conflicts behind the land tenure and land uses in different countries of the world and examines existing policies and the reasons behind changes in them. Ultimately, the book provides readers with knowledge on how land can be managed in a sustained manner, how landscape models are helpful for predicting and determining future land uses, how land can be managed with the best architectural measures, and how urban forestry is helpful for better environmental management and adapting or mitigating climate change effects. Land users, agriculturalists, urban planners, policymakers, government officials, researchers, academicians, and students looking to improve their understanding of this topic for better use of land in the future will find this book to be an asset to their current research.

Author : Karen C. Seto,William D. Solecki,Corrie A. Griffith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317909323

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The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change by Karen C. Seto,William D. Solecki,Corrie A. Griffith Pdf

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives global environmental change. Theme 2 addresses the pathways through which global environmental change affects the urban system. Theme 3 addresses the interactions and responses within the urban system in response to global environmental change. Theme 4 centers on critical emerging research.

Author : Margherita Carlucci
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000846539

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Urban Transformations, Land-use, and Environmental Change: Quantitative Approaches for Territorial Data by Margherita Carlucci Pdf

This book provides interesting insights for the identification of socioeconomic, demographic and territorial factors that affect structural disparities in local economies. Urban development is the result of demographic dynamics at the local level, connected to socioeconomic factors, and of economic growth, whose fluctuations are particularly sensitive to the economic cycle in countries, such as the ones in the Mediterranean basin, characterized by greater informality of the sector and limited public/social housing. Our objective is to provide a contribution to sustainability planning, explaining the linkage between forms of urban development and economic growth, providing policy indications for integrated spatial planning, and for cohesion policies that may leverage social and economic competitiveness.

Author : John C. Bergstrom,Stephen J Goetz,James S. Shortle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135996123

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Land Use Problems and Conflicts by John C. Bergstrom,Stephen J Goetz,James S. Shortle Pdf

The causes, consequences and control of land use change have become topics of enormous importance in contemporary society. Not only is urban land use and sprawl a hot-button issue, but issues of rural land use have also been in the headlines. Policy makers and citizens are starting to realize that many environmental and economic issues have the question of land use at their very core. Comprising papers from a conference sponsored by the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, Land Use Problems and Conflicts draws together some of the most up-to-date research in this area. Sections are devoted to problems in the United States and Europe, the consequences of such problems, land use-related data and alternative solutions to conflict. With a lineup including some of the best scholarship on this subject to date, this volume will be of use to those studying environmental and land use issues in addition to policy makers and economists.