Detalls del llibre
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- ABOUT THE EDITOR -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND HOW TO CITE -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I CITIES AND NATURE -- CHAPTER 1. Biophilic Cities Are Sustainable, Resilient Cities -- CHAPTER 2. Reconnecting Cities to the Biosphere: Stewardship of Green Infrastructure and Urban Ecosystem Services -- PART II ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE -- CHAPTER 3. Implementing Local Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Actions: The Role of Various Policy Instruments in a Multi-Level Governance Context -- CHAPTER 4. Accounting for Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Materials at the Urban Scale-Relating Existing Process Life Cycle Assessment Studies to Urban Material and Waste Composition -- CHAPTER 5. Does Size Matter? Scaling of CO2 Emissions and U.S. Urban Areas -- PART III SUSTAINABLE LAND USE AND INFRASTRUCTURE -- CHAPTER 6. Maintaining Climate Change Experiments: Urban Political Ecology and the Everyday Reconfiguration of Urban Infrastructure -- CHAPTER 7. Assessment of Soil Sealing Management Responses, Strategies, and Targets Toward Ecologically Sustainable Urban Land Use Management -- CHAPTER 8. Developing a Sustainability Assessment Model: The Sustainable Infrastructure, Land-Use, Environment and Transport Model -- CHAPTER 9. Quantifying the Total Cost of Infrastructure to Enable Environmentally Preferable Decisions: The Case of Urban Roadway Design -- PART IV URBAN WATER SUPPLY -- CHAPTER 10. Discussion on Sustainable Water Technologies for Peri-Urban Areas of Mexico City: Balancing Urbanization and Environmental Conservation -- CHAPTER 11. Global Analysis of Urban Surface Water Supply Vulnerability -- Author Notes -- Index
Llegir més - Autor/a Kimberly Etingoff
- ISBN13 9781771883184
- ISBN10 1771883189
- Pàgines 268
- Any Edició 2026
- Fecha de publicación 11/05/2026
Ressenyes i valoracions
Sustainable Cities Urban Planning Challenges and Policy
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- Kimberly Etingoff
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- Apple Academic Press (2026)
- 9781771883184



