Sustainable Cities

Urban Planning Challenges and Policy
Herausgeber: Etingoff, Kimberly

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Two trends come together in the world's cities to make urban sustainability a critical issue today. First, greater and greater numbers of people are living in urban areas-and are projected to do so for the foreseeable future. Additionally, cities contribute t

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781774636251
• ISBN-10: 1774636255
• Artikelnr.: 69920941

Autorenporträt

Etingoff, Kimberly

Inhaltsangabe

Cities and Nature. Biophilic Cities Are Sustainable, Resilient Cities.
Reconnecting Cities to the Biosphere: Stewardship of Green Infrastructure
and Urban Ecosystem Services. Addressing Climate Change. Accounting for
Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Materials at the Urban Scale-Relating Existing
Process Life Cycle Assessment Studies to Urban Material and Waste
Composition. Does Size Matter? Scaling of CO2 Emissions and U.S. Urban
Areas. Sustainable Land Use and Infrastructure. Assessment of Soil Sealing
Management Responses, Strategies, and Targets toward Ecologically
Sustainable Urban Land Use Management. Developing a Sustainability
Assessment Model: The Sustainable Infrastructure, Land-Use, Environment and
Transport Model. Quantifying the Total Cost of Infrastructure to Enable
Environmentally Preferable Decisions: The Case of Urban Roadway Design.
Urban Water Supply. Quantifying the Total Cost of Infrastructure to Enable
Environmentally Preferable Decisions: The Case of Urban Roadway Design.
Discussion on Sustainable Water Technologies for Peri-Urban Areas of Mexico
City: Balancing Urbanization and Environmental Conservation. Global
Analysis of Urban Surface Water Supply Vulnerability.