Urban Sustainability: Policy and Praxis
This book explores the environmental, economic, and socio-political dynamics of sustainability from a geographic perspective. The chapters unite the often disparate worlds of environment, economics, and politics by seeking to understand and visualize a range of sustainability practices on the ground...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
| Series: | Geotechnologies and the Environment
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part 1. Environmental Change and Urban Morphology
- Urban Stream Management
- Ecosystem services assessment from the mountain to the sea: A multidisciplinary method for defining ecosystem service indicators across landscape units
- Best Practices for Measuring Urban Forest Dynamics Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data
- Changing Urban Forest Dynamics in a Semi-Arid City
- Mapping and Sustainability of Urban and Suburban Parks
- Mapping stream removal and convergence in urban watersheds
- Managing Sustainability in National Parks
- Part 2 Economic Change, Industry, and Sustainable Local Alternatives
- The Role of Social Networks in Building a Local Food System
- Urban Mining
- Where are the garden(er)s? Examining gardener motivations and community garden participation-sheds in Austin, Texas
- Is sustainability brewing for microbreweries and brewpubs in the U.S.?
- The Food Hub as a Strategy for Small Farmers
- GIS, Transportation, and Sustainable Economic Development in Atlanta
- Part 3 Socio-Political Change and Adaptation
- Is Urban Sustainability possible in post-Katrina New Orleans
- Mapping Environmental Justice: A framework for understanding sustainability at the neighborhood scale in Indianapolis
- Unmanned Systems and Managing from Above
- Urban Greening as a Social Movement
- Decision making and sustainability in built environments
- Conclusion.