Metropolitan Sustainability : Understanding and Improving the Urban Environment /

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Global populations have grown rapidly in recent decades, leading to ever increasing demands for shelter, resources, energy and utilities. Coupled with the worldwide need to achieve lower impact buildings and conservation of resources, the need to achieve sustainability in urban environments has neve...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Zeman, Frank
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, UK ; Philadelphia, PA : Woodhead Pub Ltd., 2012.
Collection:Woodhead Publishing in energy ; no. 34.
Sujets:
City planning.
City planning > Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
Public spaces.
Développement durable.
Espaces publics.
sustainable development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
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Table des matières:
  • pt. I. Metropolitan sustainability : an introduction
  • pt. II. Earth : urban land use and the environmental impact of the built environment
  • pt. III. Wind : urban air pollution and emissions control
  • pt. IV. Water : urban water resources, reuse and management
  • pt. V. Fire : urban energy supply and management
  • pt. VI. Sustainable urban development, transport and planning.

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