Cities of the future : towards integrated sustainable water and landscape management /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Novotny, Vladimir (Editor ), Brown, Paul (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : IWA Publishing, 2007.
Temas:
Sustainable urban development.
Hydrology.
Landscape design.
Water resources development.
Sustainable development.
Cities and towns.
Cities
Urbanisme durable.
Hydrologie.
Aménagement paysager.
Ressources en eau > Exploitation.
Développement durable.
Villes.
water resources development.
sustainable development.
cities.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Cities and towns
Hydrology
Landscape design
Sustainable development
Sustainable urban development
Water resources development
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgement
  • Wingspread Workshop Organizing Committee
  • Introduction to the book
  • Preface: Cities of the future: The fifth paradigm of urbanization
  • Part One: Urban Water Sustainability
  • 1. The importance of water infrastructure and the environment in tomorrowâ€?s cities
  • 2. Developments towards urban water sustainability in the Chicago metropolitan area
  • 3. Water and cities â€? overcoming inertia and achieving a sustainable future
  • Part Two: Impact of Extreme Events
  • 4. Hurricane realities, models, levees and wetlands5. Water quality and public health â€? case studies of Hurricane Katrina and the December 2004 tsunami in Thailand
  • Part Three: Monitoring, Urban Observatories and Total Mass Balance of Pollution in Cities
  • 6. Design of an environmental field observatory for quantifying the urban water budget
  • 7. Ecosystem approaches to reduce pollution in cities
  • 8. Field data requirements for monitoring and modelling of urban drainage systems
  • Part Four: Hydrologic and Pollution Stresses, Response of Receiving Waters
  • 9. Ground water and cities10. Framework for risk-based assessment of stream response to urbanization
  • 11. Urban diffuse pollution and solutions in Japan
  • 12. Tools for the evaluation of stormwater management practices that provide ecological stability in urban streams
  • 13. Effluent dominated water bodies, their reclamation and reuse to achieve sustainability
  • Part Five: Integrated Solutions â€? Water and Landscape
  • 14. Reclaimed stormwater and wastewater and factors affecting their reuse
  • 15. Centralized and decentralized urban water, wastewater & storm water systems16. Urban ecological design and urban ecology: An assessment of the state of current knowledge and a suggested research agenda
  • 17. Green infrastructure for cities: The spatial dimension
  • 18. Strategic planning of the sustainable future wastewater and biowaste system in GÃœteborg, Sweden
  • 19. The role of low impact redevelopment/development in integrated watershed management planning: Turning theory into practice
  • 20. Automation and real-time control in urban stormwater management
  • Part Six: Implementing Future Urban Hydrological and Ecological Systems21. Urban drainage at cross-roads: Four future scenarios ranging from business-as-usual to sustainability
  • 22. Overcoming legal barriers to hydrological sustainability of urban systems
  • 23. Ecosystem resilience and institutional change: the evolving role of public water suppliers
  • 24. Financial, economic, and institutional barriers to “greenâ€? urban development: The case of stormwater
  • 25. Restoring the Charles River watershed using flow trading
  • Appendix
  • Index

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