Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability

by F. Moavenzadeh (Editor), Keisuke Hanaki (Editor), Peter Baccini (Editor)

Overview

Unidentified contributors discuss how human activities in vast urban agglomerations affect global, regional, and local environments, particularly in terms of the consumption and alteration of natural resources. They also examine how urban institutions emerging from the concentration of human talent and influence can imagine and build a sustainable world. Members of the Alliance are mostly from corporations; the series will report research into emerging barriers to sustainable development and methodologies and tools to help overcome them. The volume is not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789401003650
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	12/06/2012
Series:	Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

Table of Contents

Introduction: Cities: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability.- I. Resource Management on a Regional Scale.- 1. Restructuring Urban Systems.- 2. Scenarios for the Transition to a Second Solar Society: Case Study of a Swiss Lowland Region.- 3. Sustainable Water Management.- II. Urban Activities: Local and Global Impacts.- 4. Brook Revitalization in Zurich: A Multisystems Analysis of Sustainable Development.- 5. Environmental Loading of Resource and Heat Recovery.- 6. Towards Sustainable Urban Transport: Finding Synergies between Lowering Local and Global Impacts.- 7. The Urban Heat Environment and Urban Sustainability.- 8. “Green” Buildings: Private and Public Gains.- III. Developing and Developed Countries: Challenges and Cooperation.- 9. The Sustainability Challenge for Climate Change: Balancing Inter- and Intragenerational Equity.- 10. Megacities and Global Accords.- 11. Research in Partnership with Developing Countries: Application of the Method of Material Flux Analysis in Tunja, Colombia.

Editorial Reviews

Unidentified contributors discuss how human activities in vast urban agglomerations affect global, regional, and local environments, particularly in terms of the consumption and alteration of natural resources. They also examine how urban institutions emerging from the concentration of human talent and influence can imagine and build a sustainable world. Members of the Alliance are mostly from corporations; the series will report research into emerging barriers to sustainable development and methodologies and tools to help overcome them. The volume is not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

From the reviews:

"Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability, is an edited volume that consists of theoretical and analytical articles. … The editors are optimistic that despite all the impacts cities are making on natural processes, cities are not necessarily in conflict with the environment. … the book presents articles with a highly academic focus that should prove useful to students and researchers who are interested in urban metabolism and its sustainability linkages." (Xuemei Bai, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 7 (2), 2003)

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