Green Cities - An A-To-Z Guide

Klappentext Via 150 signed articles, Green Cities: An A-to-Z Guide provides an overview of the key concepts that urban planners, policy makers, architects, engineers, and developers use to understand the sustainability dimensions of the urban environment. It identifies cities that have taken steps to become greener and discusses the strategies they have used; it also reviews broad concepts associated with green cities. Cities face enormous environmental challenges, and the entries in this volume, from case studies of greener cities to discussions of green urban design, infrastructure, and processes, can help us transform our cities into healthier, sustainable communities in which a growing urban population can thrive. Vivid photographs, searchable hyperlinks, numerous cross references, an extensive resource guide, and a clear, accessible writing style make the Green Society volumes ideal for classroom use as well as for research. Zusammenfassung Identifying cities that have taken steps to become greener and discussing the strategies they have used! this volume provides an overview of the key concepts used to understand the sustainability dimensions of the urban environment.

Product details

• Authors: Nevin Cohen, Cohen Nevin
• Assisted by: Nevin Cohen (Editor), Cohen Nevin (Editor), Paul Robbins (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2011
• EAN: 9781412996822
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-9682-2
• No. of pages: 576
• Series: The Sage Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future; Sage Reference Series on Green; The SAGE Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future-Series Editor: Paul Robbins; The SAGE Reference Series on Green Society: Toward a Sustainable Future-Series Editor: Paul Robbins
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; REFERENCE / General, The environment, Urban & municipal planning, Reference works, Science / Environmental Science, Urban and municipal planning and policy