Landscape-ecological Plan as a Tool to Solve the Environmental Problems of Urbanization in Kathmandu City
Author: Florin Žigrai
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 104
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Author: Florin Žigrai
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 104
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Makoto Yokohari
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-01-18
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 4431564454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a unique contribution to the science of sustainable societies by challenging the traditional concept of rural-urban dichotomy. It combines environmental engineering and landscape sciences perspectives on urban region issues, making the book a unique work in urban study literatures. Today’s extended urban regions often maintain rural features within their boundaries and also have strong social, economic, and environmental linkages with the surrounding rural areas. These intra- and inter- linkages between urban and rural systems produce complex interdependences with global and local sustainability issues, including those of climate change, resource exploitation, ecosystem degradation and human wellbeing. Planning and other prospective actions for the sustainability of urban regions, therefore, cannot solely depend on “urban” approaches; rather, they need to integrate broader landscape perspectives that take extended social and ecological systems into consideration. This volume shows how to untangle, diagnose, and transform urban regions through distinctive thematic contributions across a variety of academic disciplines ranging from environmental engineering and geography to landscape ecology and urban planning. Case studies, selected from across the world and investigating urban regions in East Asia, Europe, North America and South-East Asia, collectively illustrate shared and differentiated drivers of sustainability challenges and provide informative inputs to global and local sustainability initiatives.
Author: Cynthia Rosenzweig
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Published: 2018-03-29
Total Pages: 855
ISBN-13: 1316603334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClimate Change and Cities bridges science-to-action for climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts in cities around the world.
Author: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Center for Urban and Regional Studies
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
Publisher: Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München AVM
Published: 2014-03-21
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 3954770105
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVolume 18 in the CGL-Studies series, entitled "Environmental Policy and Landscape Architecture", is the result of an international symposium held in Jerusalem in March 2011 which was organised by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute in collaboration with the Centre of Garden Art and Landscape Architecture. The symposium focused on how the many different facets of landscape architecture could help towards solving environmental problems. Sustainable Development and Landscaping, Environmental Policy and the Contribution of Landscape Architecture at a Local Level, Designing Public Open Spaces and Social Sustainability, Spatial Planning and Landscape Architecture in Israel/Palestine, and Water and Soil: Crisis and Conservation are the key chapters in this volume. The authors address a wide range of issues including the significance of religions in ideas about environmentalism in historical and current debates, how Palestinian society can meet challenges posed by the dynamic development of urban structures through capacity building in landscape architecture, and economically meaningful strategies for soil conservation in arable fields as part of agricultural sustainability in semi-arid areas. A key objective of the symposium was also to determine opportunities for cooperation in the field of environment and landscaping for Israelis, Palestinians, Muslims, Jews and Christians in a region marked by huge tension and conflicts. The authors are scholars of various disciplines such as landscape architecture, urban planning, technology assessment, philosophy of science, environmental communication and ecology, and come from Israel, Palestine, USA, Norway and Germany.
Author: Makoto Yokohari
Publisher: Books Nippan
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 164
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 252
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ambika P. Adhikari
Publisher: Iucn-World Conservation Union
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 152
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Publisher: MDPI
Published: 2020-06-16
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 3039362429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the applicability of nature-based solutions in ecological restoration practice and in contemporary landscape architecture by bringing together ecology and architecture in the built environment. Green infrastructure is used to address urban challenges such as climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and stormwater management. In addition, thermal comfort nature-based solutions reintroduce critical connections between natural and urban systems. In light of ongoing developments in sustainable urban development, the goal is a paradigm shift towards a landscape that restores and rehabilitates urban ecosystems. The ten contributions to this book examine a wide range of successful cases of designing healthier, greener and more resilient landscapes in different geographical contexts, from the United States of America and Brazil, through various European regions, to Singapore and China. While some chapters attempt to conceptualize the interconnections between cities and nature, others clearly have an empirical focus. Therefore, this volume provides a rich body of work and acts as a starting point for further studies on restoration of ecosystems and integrative policies such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.