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Informationen zum Autor Frank Zeman is Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada, and the former Director of the Center for Metropolitan Sustainability at the New York Institute of Technology.Metropolitan sustainability critically reviews the fundamental issues and applied science, engineering and technology that will enable all cities to achieve a greater level of metropolitan sustainability, and assist nations in meeting the needs of their growing urban populations.
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Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
Introduction
Part I: Metropolitan sustainability: an introduction
Chapter 1: A living city: using urban metabolism analysis to view cities as life forms
Abstract:
1.1 Introduction: urban metabolism (UM), or urban energy systems
1.2 Divergent measuring approaches in UM analysis
1.3 UM studies
1.4 Understanding cities through UM
1.5 Directions for planning and policy
1.6 Future trends
Chapter 2: Benefit cost analysis for environmental decision making: using discounting to compare benefits and costs that occur at different points in time
Abstract:
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The rationale for discounting
2.3 A framework for intertemporal discounting
2.4 Discounting for climate change
2.5 Enhancing and improving net present value
2.6 Acknowledgement
Chapter 3: Quantifying sustainability: industrial ecology, materials flow and life cycle analysis
Abstract:
3.1 Introduction to industrial ecology
3.2 Materials flow analysis (MFA)
3.3 Life cycle analysis (LCA)
3.4 Sources of further information and advice
Chapter 4: Separation of mixtures: fundamentals and technologies
Abstract:
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Characterization of separation processes
4.3 Balance equations
4.4 Preliminary separation process calculations
4.5 Multi-stage separations
4.6 Filtration
4.7 Conclusions and sources of further information
4.8 Acknowledgement
4.10 Appendix: Algorithm for solving equations 4.4, 4.9 and 4.10
Part II: Earth: urban land use and the environmental impact of the built environment
Chapter 5: The urban heat island effect: causes and potential solutions
Abstract:
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Basic causes and remedies
5.3 Solutions and benefit assessment
5.4 The urban heat island mitigation impact screening tool (MIST)
5.5 Conclusions
Chapter 6: Redevelopment of brownfield sites
Abstract:
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Management practices aimed at remediating and redeveloping brownfields
6.3 Sustainability outcomes of brownfield redevelopment
6.4 Case studies
6.5 Sources of further information and advice
Chapter 7: Urban agriculture: opportunities and constraints
Abstract:
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Site availability for urban agriculture
7.3 Crops and yields
7.4 Food security
7.5 Demands on and benefits for urban water infrastructure
7.6 Benefits for urban energy infrastructure
7.7 Waste and composting
Chapter 8: Redevelopment of brownfield sitesBuilding-integrated agriculture: a new approach to food production
Abstract:
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Ecological performance of building-integrated agriculture (BIA)
8.3 Community impact of BIA
8.4 Other forms of urban agriculture
8.5 Case studies
8.6 Sustainability challenges and future trends
8.7 Sources of further information and advice
Part III: Wind: urban air pollution and emissions control
Chapter 9: Metropolitan effects on atmospheric patterns: important scales
Abstract:
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Structure of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) over metropolitan areas
9.3 Local-versus regional-scale effects of urbanization on atmospheric patterns
9.4 Interplay between metropolitan and global climate effects
9.5 Conclusions and future trends
9.6 Sources of further information and advice
9.7 Acknowledgements
Chapter 10: The science of smog: a chemical understanding of ground level ozone and fine particulate matter
Abstract:
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Ground level ozone chemistry
10.3 Fine particulate
