Sustainability The Environment And Urbanisation

Author : Cedric Pugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134174461

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Sustainability the Environment and Urbanisation by Cedric Pugh Pdf

The 1992 Rio Summit and subsequent literature and debate has focused on 'green' issues such as biodiversity, climate change and marine pollution. Much less has been written concerning the 'brown' agenda: factors such as poor sanitation and water quality, air pollution and housing problems which are particularly prevalent in Third World cities. Sustainability, the Environment and Urbanisation provides a comprehensive overview of the brown agenda, with case studies and examples from a number of Southern countries. It looks at the broad economic context behind the problems and covers the conceptual issues of sustainability, infrastructure and health programmes, as well as assessing environmental appraisal methods. Clearly written, with contributions from some of the leading experts in the field, the book will appeal to students on environmental and developmental courses, researchers, and all those concerned with the 'healthy cities' movement.

Author : Cedric Pugh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134174539

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Sustainability the Environment and Urbanisation by Cedric Pugh Pdf

The 1992 Rio Summit and subsequent literature and debate has focused on 'green' issues such as biodiversity, climate change and marine pollution. Much less has been written concerning the 'brown' agenda: factors such as poor sanitation and water quality, air pollution and housing problems which are particularly prevalent in Third World cities. Sustainability, the Environment and Urbanisation provides a comprehensive overview of the brown agenda, with case studies and examples from a number of Southern countries. It looks at the broad economic context behind the problems and covers the conceptual issues of sustainability, infrastructure and health programmes, as well as assessing environmental appraisal methods. Clearly written, with contributions from some of the leading experts in the field, the book will appeal to students on environmental and developmental courses, researchers, and all those concerned with the 'healthy cities' movement.

Author : Richard E. Stren,Rodney White,Rodney R. White,Joseph Whitney
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015024818208

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Sustainable Cities by Richard E. Stren,Rodney White,Rodney R. White,Joseph Whitney Pdf

The idea of sustainability has become central to international dialogues on development. This study focuses on cities and examines the implications that urbanization has for the future of the environment. The contributors explain how the development of infrastructure and industries poses serious threats to the environment through the pollution of air, water and soil. Many urban governments are actively initiating programs to mitigate harmful environmental impacts, and the discussions show that some forms of urban settlement are more benign than others. To assess whether cities can be sustainable in environmental terms, this book brings together comprehensive studies of the urban experience in nine major countries and regions: the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia, China and Hong Kong, Africa, and Latin America. The chapters examine the meaning of sustainable development in a specific region, the growth and structure of urban systems, the effects of possible climatic changes on urban areas, the political environment within which cities operate, and the pressures caused by intense urban use of services and natural resources. Chapters conclude with policy proposals for increasing sustainability.

Author : B. Bhattacharya
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 8180696561

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Urbanization, Urban Sustainability and the Future of Cities by B. Bhattacharya Pdf

Author : Brian Roberts,Trevor Kanaley
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : City planning
ISBN : 9789715616072

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Urbanization and Sustainability in Asia by Brian Roberts,Trevor Kanaley Pdf

This book considers urbanization in Asia and presents case studies of sustainable development "best practice" from 12 Asian countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

Author : Christopher G Boone,Michail Fragkias
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400756663

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Urbanization and Sustainability by Christopher G Boone,Michail Fragkias Pdf

Case studies explore the Million Trees initiative in Los Angeles; the relationship of cap-and-trade policy, public health, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice in Southern California; Urbanization, vulnerability and environmental justice in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and São Paulo, and in Antofagasta, Greater Concepción and Valparaiso in Chile; Sociospatial patterns of vulnerability in the American southwest; and Urban flood control and land use planning in Greater Taipei, Taiwan ROC.

Author : Graham Haughton,Colin Hunter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134996070

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Sustainable Cities by Graham Haughton,Colin Hunter Pdf

This book tackles two issues: sustainable environmental development and urban development. It brings together the insights of environmental science, the social science and management.

Author : Adriana Allen,Nicholas You
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1874502404

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Sustainable Urbanisation by Adriana Allen,Nicholas You Pdf

Author : Alex Russ,Marianne E. Krasny
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781501712784

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Urban Environmental Education Review by Alex Russ,Marianne E. Krasny Pdf

Urban Environmental Education Review explores how environmental education can contribute to urban sustainability. Urban environmental education includes any practices that create learning opportunities to foster individual and community well-being and environmental quality in cities. It fosters novel educational approaches and helps debunk common assumptions that cities are ecologically barren and that city people don't care for, or need, urban nature or a healthy environment. Topics in Urban Environmental Education Review range from the urban context to theoretical underpinnings, educational settings, participants, and educational approaches in urban environmental education. Chapters integrate research and practice to help aspiring and practicing environmental educators, urban planners, and other environmental leaders achieve their goals in terms of education, youth and community development, and environmental quality in cities. The ten-essay series Urban EE Essays, excerpted from Urban Environmental Education Review, may be found here: naaee.org/eepro/resources/urban-ee-essays. These essays explore various perspectives on urban environmental education and may be reprinted/reproduced only with permission from Cornell University Press.

Author : Karen C. Seto,William D. Solecki,Corrie A. Griffith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317909316

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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 : Viacheslav I. Vasenev,Elvira Dovletyarova,Zhongqi Chen,Riccardo Valentini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319705576

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Megacities 2050: Environmental Consequences of Urbanization by Viacheslav I. Vasenev,Elvira Dovletyarova,Zhongqi Chen,Riccardo Valentini Pdf

This interdisciplinary proceedings book addresses highly relevant topics in urbanization and its environmental impacts and presents case studies revealing the negative environmental consequences of the anthropogenic and technogenic pressures. Urbanization is an important trend in current land-use change, with up to 70% of the world population projected to live in cities by 2050. How will this rapid urbanization alter the face of Europe? What are the environmental consequences of the expansion of megacities? These and other important questions are addressed in the Megacities 2050 Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Landscape Architecture to Support City Sustainable Development. Megapolises are complex ecosystems, and their air and water quality, vegetation and soils are exposed to anthropogenic influences. The book discusses advanced approaches and techniques to monitor, model and assess environmental consequences and risks in megapolises and offers solutions to the environmental problems of modern megapolises. It also presents successful, sustainable urban-development projects from Europe and beyond, including the management and design of green infrastructure, waste management, run-off purification and remediation of urban soils. Focusing on urban soils and ecosystems, the book is intended for experts in various fields of geography, urban studies and planning, and environmental sciences, including those in the scientific and research community, municipal services, environmental protection agencies, stakeholders working in urban management and greenery, landscape architects, civil engineers and policy-makers.

Author : Vicenzo Bentivegna,P.S. Brandon,Patrizia Lombardi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135814397

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Evaluation of the Built Environment for Sustainability by Vicenzo Bentivegna,P.S. Brandon,Patrizia Lombardi Pdf

Sustainability in the built environment is a major issue facing policy-makers, planners, developers and designers in the UK, Europe and worldwide. The measuring of buildings and cities for sustainability becomes increasingly important as pressure for green, sustainable development translates into policy and legislation. The problems of such measurement and evaluation are presented by the authors in contributions which move from the general to the particular, e.g. from a general framework for an environmentally sustainable form of urban development to a specific input-output model application to environmental problems. The book is divided into three parts: the first covers city models and sustainable systems - research programmes, environmental policies, green corporations and collaborative strategies to make urban development more sustainable; part two discusses the problems of evaluating the built environment in planning and construction, covering economic and environmental methods and construction, development and regeneration processes; part three illustrates a number of applications using different approaches and techniques and referring to a range of environmental aspects of the natural and built environment, from maintaining historic buildings to transport management and air pollution monitoring.

Author : Susan M. Opp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317103721

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Local Sustainable Urban Development in a Globalized World by Susan M. Opp Pdf

'Sustainable development' is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe. How it is defined, implemented and measured at the local level remains highly contested and subject to a wide range of external cultural, political and economic pressures. Bringing together leading experts from North America, Europe, the Middle East and SE Asia, this book provides a timely overview of the various methods for understanding and implementing sustainable practices at local levels. In doing so, they present the wide range of local action alternatives available to planners that may be pursued in spite of the constraints generated by globalization processes and highlight the array of public policy options that could reduce the external pressures shaping the possible local alternatives. The book argues that, while local planners and local authorities are willing to act, many are unaware of the range of options available to them. In bringing together these case studies, not only diverse in geographic terms, but also reflecting very different levels of income, general population education, cultural norms, legal systems and government structures, it points out innovations and examples of best practice.

Author : Karen C. Seto,William D. Solecki,Corrie A. Griffith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Sigrun Kabisch,Florian Koch,Erik Gawel,Annegret Haase,Sonja Knapp,Kerstin Krellenberg,Jaime Nivala,Andreas Zehnsdorf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319593241

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Urban Transformations by Sigrun Kabisch,Florian Koch,Erik Gawel,Annegret Haase,Sonja Knapp,Kerstin Krellenberg,Jaime Nivala,Andreas Zehnsdorf Pdf

The book addresses urban transformations towards sustainability in light of challenges of global urbanization processes and the consequences of global environmental change. The aim is to show that urban transformations only succeed if both innovative scientific solutions and practice-oriented governance approaches are developed. This assumption is addressed by providing theoretical insights and empirical evidence pointing particularly at 3 concepts or qualities which are determined here as being central for achieving urban sustainability: resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience. Urban case studies from several international research projects illustrate our conceptual approach of urban transformations towards sustainable development. Thus, the book reaches far beyond a mere additive description of single case studies. It incorporates the results of condensed synthesis, resulting from comparisons and evaluations. It provides, based on cross-cutting reflection of single cases and different scales and methods of analysis, general and transferable findings. They do not only consider the scientific sphere but deliberately go beyond it discussing transferability of knowledge into practice, governance options and the feasibility of policy strategies in order to pave the way for sustainable urban transformations to happen today and in the future.