Metropolitan Sustainability Understanding and Improving the Urban Environment
Critically reviews the fundamental issues and applied science, engineering and technology that will enable all cities to achieve a greater level of metropolitan sustainabilityWill assist nations in meeting the needs of their growing urban populationsChapters discuss urban land use, the environmental...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK
Woodhead Pub Ltd.
2012
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Series: | Woodhead Publishing series in energy
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Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- pt. I. Metropolitan sustainability : an introduction
- pt. II. Earth : urban land use and the environmental impact of the built environment
- pt. III. Wind : urban air pollution and emissions control
- pt. IV. Water : urban water resources, reuse and management
- pt. V. Fire : urban energy supply and management
- pt. VI. Sustainable urban development, transport and planning