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Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0889368015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLocal Agenda 21 Planning Guide: An introduction to sustainable development planning
Author: United Nations
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013-03-03
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781482672770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgenda 21 is a non-binding, voluntarily implemented action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. It is a product of the UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. Its purpose is an action agenda for the UN, other multilateral organizations, and individual governments around the world that can be executed at local, national, and global levels. The "21" in Agenda 21 refers to the 21st century.
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Publisher: Thomas Telford
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Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780727731029
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Vicki Elmer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 769
ISBN-13: 1135906416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInfrastructure Planning and Finance is a non-technical guide to the engineering, planning, and financing of major infrastucture projects in the United States, providing both step-by-step guidance, and a broad overview of the technical, political, and economic challenges of creating lasting infrastructure in the 21st Century. Infrastructure Planning and Finance is designed for the local practitioner or student who wants to learn the basics of how to develop an infrastructure plan, a program, or an individual infrastructure project. A team of authors with experience in public works, planning, and city government explain the history and economic environment of infrastructure and capital planning, addressing common tools like the comprehensive plan, sustainability plans, and local regulations. The book guides readers through the preparation and development of comprehensive plans and infrastructure projects, and through major funding mechanisms, from bonds, user fees, and impact fees to privatization and competition. The rest of the book describes the individual infrastructure systems: their elements, current issues and a 'how-to-do-it' section that covers the system and the comprehensive plan, development regulations and how it can be financed. Innovations such as decentralization, green and blue-green technologies are described as well as local policy actions to achieve a more sustainable city are also addressed. Chapters include water, wastewater, solid waste, streets, transportation, airports, ports, community facilities, parks, schools, energy and telecommunications. Attention is given to how local policies can ensure a sustainable and climate friendly infrastructure system, and how planning for them can be integrated across disciplines.
Author: Jon Hawkes
Publisher: Common Ground
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 1863350497
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCultural vitality is an essential to a healthy and sustainable society as social equity, envrinmental responsibilty and economic viability. In order for public planning to be more effective, its methodology should include an integrated framework of cultural evaluation similar to social, environmental and economic assessment.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2002-10-24
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0309169259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1992, world leaders adopted Agenda 21, the work program of the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development. This landmark event provided a political foundation and action items to facilitate the global transition toward sustainable development. The international community marked the tenth anniversary of this conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August 2002. Down to Earth, a component of the U.S. State Department's "Geographic Information for Sustainable Development" project for the World Summit, focuses on sub-Saharan Africa with examples drawn from case-study regions where the U.S. Agency for International Development and other agencies have broad experience. Although African countries are the geographic focus of the study, the report has broader applicability. Down to Earth summarizes the importance and applicability of geographic data for sustainable development and draws on experiences in African countries to examine how future sources and applications of geographic data could provide reliable support to decision-makers as they work towards sustainable development. The committee emphasizes the potential of new technologies, such as satellite remote-sensing systems and geographic information systems, that have revolutionized data collection and analysis over the last decade.
Author: Dimitri Devuyst
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 0231118031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book deals with practical ways to reach a more sustainable state in urban areas through such tools as strategic environmental assessment, sustainability assessment, direction analysis, baseline setting and progress measurement, sustainability targets, and ecological footprint analysis.
Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781844078998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis publication reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization. It notes that traditional approaches to urban planning (particularly in developing countries) have largely failed to promote equitable, efficient and sustainable human settlements and to address twenty-first century challenges, including rapid urbanization, shrinking cities and aging, climate change and related disasters, urban sprawl and unplanned peri-urbanization, as well as urbanization of poverty and informality. It concludes that new approaches to planning can only be meaningful, and have a greater chance of succeeding, if they effectively address all of these challenges, are participatory and inclusive, as well as linked to contextual socio-political processes.--Publisher's description
Author: Susan Buckingham-Hatfield
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-23
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 113463515X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConstructing Local Environmental Agendas provides an invaluable insight into the experiences of parallel projects across the world, particularly in the Uk and the rest of Europe, Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Author: Rosa Koire
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780615494548
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you've been wanting an interesting, clearly written, how-to-manual for identifying and fighting UN Agenda 21, here it is. Agenda 21--All the information you need to understand what is happening in your town, why it's happening, who is behind it, and what you can do to stop it. BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: U.N. Agenda 21 is 172 pages of truth. Part history, part current events, part hand-to-hand combat, and part blueprint for keeping your freedom, this is one book that you'll put to work immediately. Boots on the ground and all hands on deck is the order of the day. Awareness is the first step in the Resistance.
