David Thorpe

'One Planet' Cities (eBook, PDF)

Sustaining Humanity within Planetary Limits

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book addresses the crucial question of how the essential needs of the growing human population can be met without breaking the Earth's already-stretched life-support system, and will be of great interest to practitioners and policymakers, alongside students of the built environment, urban planning, environmental policy and energy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429872532
• Artikelnr.: 56832090

Autorenporträt

David Thorpe is a lecturer in 'one planet' devleopment and governance at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK, a consultant on renewable energy and sustainable building, and founder/patron of One Planet Council. He is author of numerous articles and books, including Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference (Routledge, 2017), Solar Energy Pocket Reference (Routledge, 2017) and The One Planet Life (Routledge, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Do the Stories We Tell Influence the Future We Will Live In? 2. The
Ultimate Problem: Humanity's Limits to Growth 3. Ecological Footprinting
and Other Standards 4. Choosing Standards 5. Feeding Cities 6. Regenerative
Cities 7. Going Zero Carbon 8. Reinventing Industry 9. Managing Water in
The Age of Change 10. Neighbourhoods of The Future 11. The Buildings We
Will Live In 12. Moving People and Goods 13. How Smart Is Smart? 14. Where
Does the Money Come From? 15. Case Studies 16. Wales and One Planet
Development 17. Six Steps to The One Planet City 18. A Vision of The Future