How Green Is the City? - Sustainability Assessment and the Management of Urban Environments

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Summary

This 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.

Product details

• Authors: Dimitri Devuyst, Dimitri Hens Devuyst, W. De Lannoy
• Assisted by: Walter De Lannoy (Editor), Dimitri Devuyst (Editor), Devuyst Dimitri (Editor), Luc Hens (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2001
• EAN: 9780231118026
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11802-6
• No. of pages: 488
• Assisted by: Walter De Lannoy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, NATURE / Natural Resources, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Pollution & threats to the environment, Environmental Management, Pollution and threats to the environment