Eco-Cities (eBook, ePUB)

A Planning Guide
Redaktion: Yang, Zhifeng

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This guide provides an overview of urban ecosystem structures, functions, and changes and discusses how to successfully accomplish eco-city planning based on government requirements. It adds a new dimension to the understanding and the application of the concept of urban sustainability, based on hypotheses about social and biogeophysical processes and through in-depth case studies. It presents three novel theories for socioeconomic metabolic models and discusses total urban ecosystem health using both the traditional environmental analysis method and emergy and exergy as holistic indicators.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040219867
• Artikelnr.: 72583437

Autorenporträt

Zhifeng Yang is a professor and the dean of the School of Environment at Beijing Normal University. His research areas include urban ecological planning and management. He has authored more than 10 books on urban planning, water resources management, and ecological engineering, and has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles. Professor Yang is an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Informatics and the Journal of Environmental Sciences, and a guest editor of Ecological Modelling and Ecological Informatics. He is also an editorial member of the Journal of Hydrodynamics, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, and Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China.

Inhaltsangabe

Theoretical Bases: Eco
city Planning Theories and Thoughts. Integrated Urban Ecosystem Assessments. Planning of Ecological Spatial System. Planning of Industry System. Planning of Sustainable Energy and Air Pollution Prevention. Urban Water Environment Quality Improvement Plan. Eco
Habitat and Eco
Cultural System Planning. Urban Ecological Planning Regulation. Case Studies: Eco
City Guangzhou Plan. Eco
City Xiamen Plan. Eco
City Baotou Plan. Eco
City Wuyishan Plan. Eco
City Wanzhou Plan. Eco
City Jingdezhen Plan. Assessment of Sustainability for a City by Application of a Work Energy Balance and a Carbon Cycling Model. Index.