The Environment Of Human Settlements Human Well Being In Cities

Author : P. Laconte,G. Epstein,J.E. Gibson
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483153650

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The Environment of Human Settlements Human Well-Being in Cities by P. Laconte,G. Epstein,J.E. Gibson Pdf

The Environment of Human Settlements: Human Well-Being in Cities, Volume 1 contains the proceedings of the Conference on the Environment of Human Settlements: Human Well-Being in Cities, held in Brussels, Belgium, in April 1976. The papers focus on the environmental implications of human settlements, with emphasis on the well-being of people living in cities. This volume is comprised of 31 chapters organized around four themes: modern technology for cities of today; decision-making for human well-being in cities (including political, legal and economic considerations); urban and land-use planning; and design as a component in urban policy. Ontario's resource recovery program is described, and interstate highway interchange communities as sites of future settlements are considered. The effects of highway noise in residential communities are also discussed, along with the role of remote sensing in habitat; financial and technical management for human settlements; human settlements as sociotechnical-economic processes; how to optimize urban density; and quantitative landscape evaluation for open space planning. This book will be of interest to engineers, scientists, and decision-makers concerned with local, national, regional, and global environmental problems related to human settlements.

Author : Pierre Laconte,World Environment and Resources Council
Publisher : Franklin Book Company
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCAL:B4310443

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The Environment of Human Settlements by Pierre Laconte,World Environment and Resources Council Pdf

Author : World Environment and Resources Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:633158863

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Environment of Human Settlements - Human Well-Being in Cities - Proceedings of the Conference Held in Brussels, Belgium, April 1976 by World Environment and Resources Council Pdf

Author : United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UOM:39015037328302

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Human Settlements and Sustainable Development by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements Pdf

Author : World Environment and Resources Council Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1977-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0080218571

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The Environment of Human Settlements by World Environment and Resources Council Staff Pdf

Author : World Health Organization,United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789240003170

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Integrating health in urban and territorial planning by World Health Organization,United Nations Human Settlements Programme Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Environmental health
ISBN : UCBK:C095452896

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Sustainable Development and Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : Un-Habitat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136570018

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Cities in a Globalizing World by Un-Habitat Pdf

'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers, and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue, mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanization and globalization work for all people, instead of leaving billions behind or on the margins. Cities in a Globalizing World: Global Report on Human Settlements is a comprehensive review of conditions in the world's cities and the prospects for making them better, safer places to live in an age of globalization. I hope that it will provide all stakeholders - foremost among them the urban poor themselves - with reliable and timely information with which to set our policies right and get the machinery of urban life moving in a constructive direction.' From the Foreword by Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, United Nations. Cities in a Globalizing World presents a comprehensive review of the world's cities and analyses the positive and negative impacts on human settlements of the global trends towards social and economic integration and the rapid changes in information and communication technologies. In this Global Report, the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) draws on specially commissioned and contributed background papers from more than 80 leading international specialists. The report focuses on recent trends in human settlements and their implications for poverty, inequity and social polarization. It develops advance knowledge for urban planning and management policies in support and promotion of inclusive cities and good urban governance. This major and influential report is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of human settlements conditions and trends. Written in clear, non-technical language and supported by informative graphics, case studies and extensive statistical data, it should be an essential tool and reference for academics, researchers, planners, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world.

Author : Giuseppe T. Cirella
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811640315

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Human Settlements by Giuseppe T. Cirella Pdf

The answers to the questions of why and how people live where they live as well as how they maintain and integrate with one another are fundamental human settlement issues rooted in history and culture. Human settlements are historically linked to resource availability, fortification, and the mythos of civilizations. Cities play a central role in redefining the interface between human beings and nature. They have revolutionized the human experience by taming natural surroundings and building environments that are human-centric—often narrowing human life outside the experience of wilderness or the untamed. This book is divided into three parts, it examines urban development trends, explores perspectives in energy efficiency and agriculture security, and considers policy development and future scenarios in human-nature relations. It is a compendium of multidisciplinary work that challenges the directions of modernity and offers reference to alternatives. Authors come from a diverse background and international context to address common overarching theories facing current geography-specific problems. An interconnected overtone of the book attempts to link accelerated urbanization and settlement location to how societies are maintained and integrated. Human settlements are shaped by human ecology and the relationship between humans and their interaction with their environment. Two sectors central to human survival are specifically explored: energy and agriculture. Cutting-edge, smart development looks at the latest findings that reflect the on-going debate facing these sectors. A human settlement metric is envisioned in terms of the past, present, and future. This book is a unique attempt to combine a rethinking about human settlements for scientists, policy-makers, public officials, and people committed to improving urban life, society-wide. Possible agents to resolving human settlement problems include international cooperation and various mechanisms that interlace the international community. Methodological and applied aspects of sustainable management focus on topics such as adaptive knowledge sharing, renewable energy, climate change, agricultural planning, and policy development. An emphasis on scientific and technological advancement, from a bottom-up mapping of society, elucidates a better understanding of the role of knowledgeable societies in which need is considered alongside how such need can be sustained—advancing towards a more promising future.

Author : Mani Monto,L S Ganesh,Koshy Varghese
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0761933859

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Sustainability and Human Settlements by Mani Monto,L S Ganesh,Koshy Varghese Pdf

This book--an outcome of the authors' ongoing research on the complex relationships between humans and water in an urban context--presents an integrated model for assessing and forecasting the sustainability of human settlements, particularly urban communities. After introducing the conceptual and contextual dimensions of sustainability through an extensive review of the literature on the subject, the authors go on to explain their model. They then elaborate on the methodology for its formulation, development and implementation. This model has also been used to analyse changes in the availability of water and open spaces, and variations in lifestyles, community attitudes and living conditions including sanitation practices, and waste generation and its disposal.

Author : United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9781853838057

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Cities in a Globalizing World by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements Pdf

'The world has entered the urban millennium. Nearly half the world's people are now city dwellers and the rapid increase in urban population is expected to continue mainly in developing countries. This historic transition is being further propelled by the powerful forces of globalization. The central challenge for the international community is clear: to make both urbanization and globalization work for all people instead of leaving billions behind or on the margins ... Cities in a Globalizing World: Global Report on Human Settlements 2001 is a comprehensive review of conditions in the world's.

Author : Charlie M. Shackleton,Sarel S. Cilliers,Elandrie Davoren,Marié J. du Toit
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030676506

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Urban Ecology in the Global South by Charlie M. Shackleton,Sarel S. Cilliers,Elandrie Davoren,Marié J. du Toit Pdf

Against the background of unprecedented rates of urbanisation in the Global South, leading to massive social, economic and environmental transformations, this book engages with the dire need to understand the ecology of such settings as the foundation for fostering sustainable and resilient human settlements in contexts that are very different to the Global North. It does so by bringing together scholars from around the world, drawing together research and case studies from across the Global South to illustrate, in an interdisciplinary and comprehensive fashion, the ecology of towns and cities in the Global South. Framed using a social-ecological systems lens, it provides the reader with an in-depth analysis and understanding of the ecological dynamics and ecosystem services and disservices within the complex and rapidly changing towns and cities of the Global South, a region with currently scarce representation in most of the urban ecology literature. As such the book makes a call for greater geographical balance in urban ecology research leading towards a more global understanding and frameworks. The book embraces the complexity of these rapid transformations for ecological and environmental management and how the ecosystems and the benefits they provide shape local ecologies, livelihood opportunities and human wellbeing, and how such knowledge can be mobilised towards improved urban design and management and thus urban sustainability.

Author : David Satterthwaite,et al
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134172856

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The Environment for Children by David Satterthwaite,et al Pdf

Each year, millions of children die of environmental causes and many more suffer serious illness or injury. Children are often the most vulnerable to the condition of their environment -and their health is an index of its quality - but their wellbeing is rarely given priority by governments or aid agencies. Ironically, the problems can be traced back to matters which can be treated straightforwardly and at relatively low cost - poor drinking water or food, or infectious diseases which can be controlled. This book gives a multidisciplinary account of the environmental health hazards threatening children and the range of impacts they can have. It also explains what can be done, by communities as well as governments and aid workers, to provide safe and healthy environments for children. The book looks at conditions in a range of cities in the developing world, as well as pollutants and other health problems affecting children in the North. Published in association with UNICEF, and written by some of the same authors as Environmental Problems in Third World Cities (Earthscan, 1993), this provides excellent course material, and will be useful for practitioners working on child development, infant and maternal health, environmental health and community development. David Satterthwaite is Director of the Human Settlements Programme at the International Institute for Environment and Development, and principal author of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities (1993) and Squatter Citizen(1989).

Author : Centre for Housing, Building, and Planning (United Nations)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4170116

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Human Settlements: the Environmental Challenge by Centre for Housing, Building, and Planning (United Nations) Pdf

Author : Ann Sloan Devlin
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780128114827

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Environmental Psychology and Human Well-Being by Ann Sloan Devlin Pdf

Environmental Psychology and Human Well-Being: Effects of Built and Natural Settings provides a better understanding of the way in which mental and physical well-being is affected by physical environments, along with insights into how the design of these environments might be improved to support better health outcomes. The book reviews the history of the field, discusses theoretical constructs in guiding research and design, and provides an up-to-date survey of research findings. Core psychological constructs, such as personal space, territoriality, privacy, resilience, stress, and more are integrated into each environment covered. Provides research-based insight into how an environment can impact mental and physical health and well-being Integrates core psychological constructs, such as coping, place attachment, social support, and perceived control into each environment discussed Includes discussion of Kaplan's Attention Restoration Theory and Ulrich's Stress Reduction Theory Covers educational settings, workplace settings, environments for active living, housing for the elderly, natural settings, correctional facilities, and more