Urban Sustainable Development in East Asia - Understanding and Evaluating Urban Sustainable Trends in China and Japan

This book offers careful glimpse from the lenses of selected case studies of major counties in East Asia, namely China and Japan to obtain insights as well as lessons regarding their perspective sustainable cities development. Urban sustainability is the pillar domain for achieving overall sustainability. East Asia has the world most populous countries and cities; therefore, it is of great importance to understand, analyze, and assess the sustainable urban development trends and paradigms in an East Asia setting so as to better guide the future development of sustainable cities in the region. The outcomes of this book are policy-relevant consultations to key stakeholders from various walks of sustainability studies.

List of contents

Introduction.- Review of literature.- Eco-city development in china: international perspective and comparison.- Low-carbon city development in china: lessons and references from other countires.- Understanding smart-city developments: a new framework and its application in japan.- New evaluation approach for sustainable cities: from smart city concept to indicator weighting.- Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Xiaolong Zou
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2023
• EAN: 9789819970148
• ISBN: 978-981-9970-14-8
• No. of pages: 131
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 12 mm x 235 mm
• Illustrations: XIX, 131 p. 28 illus., 18 illus. in color.
• Series: Urban Sustainability
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Development theory and development policy