Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization write by Agostino Petrillo. This book was released on 2017-11-24. Sustainable Urban Development and Globalization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book equips readers with a deeper understanding of the challenges posed by radical socioeconomic, environmental, and cultural changes due to globalization and describes effective, sustainable solutions to these challenges. The focus is especially on the rapid urbanization processes in countries of the Global South, which are giving rise to dramatic new problems of spatial and social inequality and difficult environmental challenges in relation to climate change. Readers will gain skills and knowledge that will help them to develop an integrated, multidisciplinary approach to planning, design, and management of urban settlements and territories in contexts with a high level of social, economic, territorial, and landscape vulnerability. The coverage includes, for example, strategies to promote social inclusion, improve housing quality, ensure adequate education, protect cultural heritage, enhance risk management, and address issues in the food-energy-water nexus. Among the authors are leading experts from the Polytechnic University of Milan, where a multidisciplinary set of studies and research projects in the field have been undertaken in recent years.
Local Sustainable Urban Development in a Globalized World
Local Sustainable Urban Development in a Globalized World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Local Sustainable Urban Development in a Globalized World write by Susan M. Opp. This book was released on 2016-05-06. Local Sustainable Urban Development in a Globalized World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Sustainable development' is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe. How it is defined, implemented and measured at the local level remains highly contested and subject to a wide range of external cultural, political and economic pressures. Bringing together leading experts from North America, Europe, the Middle East and SE Asia, this book provides a timely overview of the various methods for understanding and implementing sustainable practices at local levels. In doing so, they present the wide range of local action alternatives available to planners that may be pursued in spite of the constraints generated by globalization processes and highlight the array of public policy options that could reduce the external pressures shaping the possible local alternatives. The book argues that, while local planners and local authorities are willing to act, many are unaware of the range of options available to them. In bringing together these case studies, not only diverse in geographic terms, but also reflecting very different levels of income, general population education, cultural norms, legal systems and government structures, it points out innovations and examples of best practice.
Urban Sustainability
Urban Sustainability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Sustainability write by Igor Vojnovic. This book was released on 2013. Urban Sustainability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than half the world's population currently lives in urban areas, and virtually all of the world's population growth over the next three decades is expected to be in cities. What impact will this growth have on the environment? What can we do now to pave the way for resource longevity? Sustainability has received considerable attention in recent years, though conceptions of the term remain vague. Using a wide array of cities around the globe as case studies, this timely book explores the varying nature of global urban-environmental stresses and the complexities involved in defining sustainability policies. Working with six core themes, the editor examines the past, present, and future of urban sustainability within local, national, and global contexts.
Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development
Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development write by Harald Alard Mieg. This book was released on 2013. Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Which new institutions do we need to trigger local and global sustainable urban development? Are cities the right starting points for implementing sustainability policies? If so, what are the implications for city management? This book reflects the situation of cities in the context of global change and increasing demands for sustainable development. Global environmental change is forcing cities to think about their possible futures. Common approaches to city governance, from top-down planning to participation, are no longer sufficient.
Sustainable Urban Metabolism
Sustainable Urban Metabolism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable Urban Metabolism write by Paulo Ferrao. This book was released on 2013-08-30. Sustainable Urban Metabolism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy. Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population now generates more than eighty percent of global GDP. Cities account for enormous flows of energy and materials—inflows of goods and services and outflows of waste. Thus urban environmental management critically affects global sustainability. In this book, Paulo Ferrão and John Fernández offer a metabolic perspective on urban sustainability, viewing the city as a metabolism, in terms of its exchanges of matter and energy. Their book provides a roadmap to the strategies and tools needed for a scientifically based framework for analyzing and promoting the sustainability of urban systems. Using the concept of urban metabolism as a unifying framework, Ferrão and Fernandez describe a systems-oriented approach that establishes useful linkages among environmental, economic, social, and technical infrastructure issues. These linkages lead to an integrated information-intensive platform that enables ecologically informed urban planning. After establishing the theoretical background and describing the diversity of contributing disciplines, the authors sample sustainability approaches and tools, offer an extended study of the urban metabolism of Lisbon, and outline the challenges and opportunities in approaching urban sustainability in both developed and developing countries.
