Broschiertes Buch

Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities

Small Interventions for Stronger Urban Food-Water-Energy Management

Herausgeber: Melis, Alessandro; Coulter, Claire; Brown, Julia

Beschreibung

This book explores the link between the food-water-energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. It provides a planning tool for decision making and concludes with policy recommendations, making it relevant to a range of audiences.

Autor

Alessandro Melis is an Italian architect and the curator of the Italian National Pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale of Architecture. He is a Professor of Architecture and the inaugural IDC Foundation Endowed Chair of New York Institute of Technology. Julia Brown is a qualitative human geographer and Senior Lecturer in Environment and Development, Department of Geography at the University of Portsmouth, UK, with a particular focus on sustainable rural water resource management in Sub-Saharan Africa. Claire Coulter is a Teaching Fellow in the Operations and Systems Management Group at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She was the Project Coordinator for CRUNCH and her research explores strategies for encouraging environmentally sustainable behaviour in urban SMEs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9780367631970
• ISBN-10: 0367631970
• Artikelnr.: 63298253