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This guide provides an overview of urban ecosystem structures, functions, and changes and discusses how to successfully accomplish eco-city planning based on government requirements. It adds a new dimension to the understanding and the application of the concept of urban sustainability, based on hypotheses about social and biogeophysical processes and through in-depth case studies. It presents three novel theories for socioeconomic metabolic models and discusses total urban ecosystem health using both the traditional environmental analysis method and emergy and exergy as holistic indicators.
List of contents
Theoretical Bases: Eco-city Planning Theories and Thoughts. Integrated Urban Ecosystem Assessments. Planning of Ecological Spatial System. Planning of Industry System. Planning of Sustainable Energy and Air Pollution Prevention. Urban Water Environment Quality Improvement Plan. Eco-Habitat and Eco-Cultural System Planning. Urban Ecological Planning Regulation.
Case Studies: Eco-City Guangzhou Plan. Eco-City Xiamen Plan. Eco-City Baotou Plan. Eco-City Wuyishan Plan. Eco-City Wanzhou Plan. Eco-City Jingdezhen Plan. Assessment of Sustainability for a City by Application of a Work Energy Balance and a Carbon Cycling Model.
Index.
About the author
Zhifeng Yang is a professor and the dean of the School of Environment at Beijing Normal University. His research areas include urban ecological planning and management. He has authored more than 10 books on urban planning, water resources management, and ecological engineering, and has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles. Professor Yang is an associate editor of the
Journal of Environmental Informatics and the
Journal of Environmental Sciences, and a guest editor of
Ecological Modelling and
Ecological Informatics. He is also an editorial member of the
Journal of Hydrodynamics, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, and
Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China.
Summary
This guide provides an overview of urban ecosystem structures, functions, and changes and discusses how to successfully accomplish .
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"Eco-Cities: A Planning Guide is an essential guidebook to a powerful new way of understanding the relationships between humans and nature in the context of our modern urban ecosystems. Providing a comprehensive theoretical basis, several case studies, and the explanation of very innovative methodologies for integrated urban ecosystem assessment, this book will become a key reference for students, scientists, professionals, and policy makers interested in planning and managing sustainable cities."—Pier Paolo Franzese, Parthenope University of Naples, Italy
"What fascinates me most is the detailed Chinese eco-city cases and specific eco-city planning processes. Anyone interested in the ‘how and why’ of Chinese eco-city planning history and processes would do well to use this book as a starting point."—Guoqian Chen, College of Engineering, Peking University, China
"Overall, the book is a needed contribution in combining concepts of ecology and urbanism and in moving sustainable development from theory to practice."—Brian D. Fath, Towson University, Maryland, USA
