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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - CITIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY BRANTLEY LIDDLE AND FRED MOAVENZADEH OR at least 4000 years, cities have been centers of cultural, social, technological Fand economic innovation, inventions and their application, and political power. Only in the last 200 years, the industrial era, have urban areas grown so rapidly, and their populations increased so dramatically that their impacts on the natural environ ment are being felt beyond their immediate geographic surroundings. As the 21' cen tury dawns, megacities-great and far-reaching concentrations of power and influ ence-have become centers of the phenomena of globalization and information ex change. These concentrations of people and activity are placing stress on the natural environment so great that it is beginning to have extensive regional, and even global impacts. However, asconcentrations ofpower-political, economic, andintellectual these great urban centers share with the ancestral cities of past millennia the resources to consciously shape the future. The management of these megacities (those having populations of over eight million) in their current formative stages so taxing to natural systems,paradoxicallypresents theopportunity torestoresustainableregional and global environments. Environmental problems consequent to urban growth have two sources: pov erty and affluence. These two conditions often coexist in dramatic contrast within the same city, particularly in developing countries. In terms of environmental impact, poverty-based problems tend to have local effects, while affluence-based problems usually have transboundary and/or global effects.…

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -CITIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY BRANTLEY LIDDLE AND FRED MOAVENZADEH OR at least 4000 years, cities have been centers of cultural, social, technological Fand economic innovation, inventions and their application, and political power. Only in the last 200 years, the industrial era, have urban areas grown so rapidly, and their populations increased so dramatically that their impacts on the natural environ ment are being felt beyond their immediate geographic surroundings. As the 21' cen tury dawns, megacities-great and far-reaching concentrations of power and influ ence-have become centers of the phenomena of globalization and information ex change. These concentrations of people and activity are placing stress on the natural environment so great that it is beginning to have extensive regional, and even global impacts. However, asconcentrations ofpower-political, economic, andintellectual these great urban centers share with the ancestral cities of past millennia the resources to consciously shape the future. The management of these megacities (those having populations of over eight million) in their current formative stages so taxing to natural systems,paradoxicallypresents theopportunity torestoresustainableregional and global environments. Environmental problems consequent to urban growth have two sources: pov erty and affluence. These two conditions often coexist in dramatic contrast within the same city, particularly in developing countries. In terms of environmental impact, poverty-based problems tend to have local effects, while affluence-based problems usually have transboundary and/or global effects. 252 pp. Englisch. …

Gebunden. Etat : New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability F. Moavenzadeh, et al. Introduction. Cities: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability B. Liddle, F. Moavenzadeh. I: Resource Management on a Regional Scale. 1. Restructuring Urban Systems P. Baccini, et a.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Etat : New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability F. Moavenzadeh, et al. Introduction. Cities: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability B. Liddle, F. Moavenzadeh. I: Resource Management on a Regional Scale. 1. Restructuring Urban Systems P. Baccini, et a. …

Buch. Etat : Neu. Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability | F. Moavenzadeh (u. a.) | Buch | Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries | viii | Englisch | 2002 | Springer Netherlands | EAN 9781402005404 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -CITIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY BRANTLEY LIDDLE AND FRED MOAVENZADEH OR at least 4000 years, cities have been centers of cultural, social, technological Fand economic innovation, inventions and their application, and political power. Only in the last 200 years, the industrial era, have urban areas grown so rapidly, and their populations increased so dramatically that their impacts on the natural environ ment are being felt beyond their immediate geographic surroundings. As the 21' cen tury dawns, megacities-great and far-reaching concentrations of power and influ ence-have become centers of the phenomena of globalization and information ex change. These concentrations of people and activity are placing stress on the natural environment so great that it is beginning to have extensive regional, and even global impacts. However, asconcentrations ofpower-political, economic, andintellectual these great urban centers share with the ancestral cities of past millennia the resources to consciously shape the future. The management of these megacities (those having populations of over eight million) in their current formative stages so taxing to natural systems,paradoxicallypresents theopportunity torestoresustainableregional and global environments. Environmental problems consequent to urban growth have two sources: pov erty and affluence. These two conditions often coexist in dramatic contrast within the same city, particularly in developing countries. In terms of environmental impact, poverty-based problems tend to have local effects, while affluence-based problems usually have transboundary and/or global effects.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 252 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -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.Springer-Verlag KG, Sachsenplatz 4-6, 1201 Wien 252 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -CITIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY BRANTLEY LIDDLE AND FRED MOAVENZADEH OR at least 4000 years, cities have been centers of cultural, social, technological Fand economic innovation, inventions and their application, and political power. Only in the last 200 years, the industrial era, have urban areas grown so rapidly, and their populations increased so dramatically that their impacts on the natural environ ment are being felt beyond their immediate geographic surroundings. As the 21' cen tury dawns, megacities-great and far-reaching concentrations of power and influ ence-have become centers of the phenomena of globalization and information ex change. These concentrations of people and activity are placing stress on the natural environment so great that it is beginning to have extensive regional, and even global impacts. However, asconcentrations ofpower-political, economic, andintellectual these great urban centers share with the ancestral cities of past millennia the resources to consciously shape the future. The management of these megacities (those having populations of over eight million) in their current formative stages so taxing to natural systems,paradoxicallypresents theopportunity torestoresustainableregional and global environments. Environmental problems consequent to urban growth have two sources: pov erty and affluence. These two conditions often coexist in dramatic contrast within the same city, particularly in developing countries. In terms of environmental impact, poverty-based problems tend to have local effects, while affluence-based problems usually have transboundary and/or global effects. 252 pp. Englisch.…