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Sustainable Development and Planning: VI(173 WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment)

Sustainable Development and Planning: VI(173 WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment)


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This book contains the proceedings of the sixth conferences on the topic of sustainable regional development organized by the Wessex Institute of Technology. First held in 2003, the conference facilitates communication between all scientists specialising in the wide range of subjects included within sustainable development and planning. These include planners, environmentalists, architects, engineers, policy makers and economists, who all must work together in order to ensure that planning leads to sustainable development that meets present needs without compromising our future. The papers included in the book cover: City Planning; Environmental Management; Environmental Policies and Planning; regional Planning; Cultural Heritage; Sustainability and the Built Environment; Sustainable Tourism; Sustainable Solutions in Emerging Countries; Environmental Economics; Energy Resources; Sustainability Assessment and Management; Waste Management; Improving Safety of users in Evacuation.

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Contents Section 1: City planning Assessment of outdoor thermal comfort and its relation to urban geometry; Tale of two cities: urban planning for the 21st century eco-metropolis; Social and environmental indexes to determine the impacts of closed neighbourhoods in Brazil; Towards sustainable waterfront transformation: through the Mediterranean to Montenegro Section 2: Environmental management The leverage of corporate environmental protection concepts on employee motivation; Technical collaboration in international environmental assessment projects: a case study of the UNEP Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland Project; Concept of an ecologically balanced area based on Ecological Footprint; Identification of homogeneous areas from urban-environmental vulnerabilities: La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina; From order to (dis)order in the land reform programme of Zimbabwe: was environmental sustainability retained?; Sustaining abundance and distributional patterns of benthic diatoms from streams in Kentucky, USA; Allometric equations to estimate carbon pool in soil and above-ground biomass in mangrove forests in Southeast Mexico Section 3: Environmental policies and planning Floodplains and sustainable development; Planning low volume forest road-net for sustainable development in a coastline area in Chalkidiki; Urban agriculture in Dar es Salaam: a dream or reality? Section 4: Regional planning Identifying social-ecological couplings for regional sustainability in a rapidly urbanizing water-limited area of western Canada; National planning in South Africa: a critical review; Underused land, brownfields, future use and effects: Browntrans Project outputs Section 5: Cultural heritage Cultural heritage tourism research: a sustainable community-based design project for the San Antonio Mission Historic District; Research on intensive utilization of land and settlements protection under rural housing reconstruction in Chengdu Plain; An urban healing agenda for reform in Bahrain: where the dweller falls into the urban gap and the sailing boat hits the skyscraper Section 6: Sustainability and the built environment Pathways to an oil-constrained future: analogies with climate change mitigation and adaptation; Environmental sustainability agenda: Metropolitan Area of Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico; The economic sustainability in urban planning: the case of La Manga; Influence of trees on the air temperature in outdoor spaces according to planting parameters: the case of the city of Aix-en-Provence in France; A new paradigm of urban development: envisioning sustainable futures in Qatar; New Urbanism and sense of community in new Egyptian settlements: case study - El Sherouq city, Egypt; Green, brown or grey: green roofs as 'sustainable' infrastructure; Hive minds: distributed intelligence within the biomimetic studio; Student preference for alternative modes of transport at the University of Pretoria, South Africa; Sustainability paradigm: perspective of the small retailers Section 7: Sustainable tourism Spatial and environmental preconditions for the establishment of nautical tourism ports; Rottnest Island, Indian Ocean: moving towards sustainability; Marine spatial planning as a tool for promoting sustainable economic development including tourism and recreation in a coastal area: an example from Parnu Bay, NE Baltic Sea; How effective are impact assessment procedures for ecotourism in developing nations? A case study analysis; Community involvement in the assessment of the importance of sustainable rural tourism indicators for protected areas: the case of the Nevado de Toluca National Park in Mexico Section 8: Sustainable solutions in emerging countries Sustainability: the dream of international development projects; Demonstrating the importance of criteria and sub-criteria in building assessment methods; Infill development as an approach for promoting compactness of urban form; Enhancing sustainable infrastructure with the aid of the Green Infrastructure Toolkit; The thermal performance of green roofs in a hot, humid microclimate; Recognizing socioeconomic risks and benefits related to biofuel production in developing countries: framework for analysis; Community participation in comprehensive upgrading programmes in developing countries Section 9: Environmental economics Systematic monetisation of environmental impacts; Value chain costing analysis as an approach to evaluate market price volatilities due to changing energy prices Section 10: Energy resources Distributed energy generation: case study of a mountain school campus in Italy; Small hydroelectric plants: the hydraulic auger; Passive zones, bio-climatic design and scale hierarchic urban fabric Section 11: Sustainability assessment and management (Special session organised by C. A. Poveda) The Canadian oil sands: environmental, economic, social, health, and other impacts; Sustainability assessment framework for engineering and sciences educational institutions in developing countries Section 12: Waste management IDES project: an advanced tool to investigate illegal dumping; Promoting sustainable waste minimisation in the built environment: a case study of urban housing in Akure, Nigeria; Impact of pretreatment on the landfill behaviour of MBT waste; Municipal solid waste characterization and management in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria; Analyzing reverse logistics in the Brazilian National Waste Management Policy (PNRS); Technology fusion for MGP remediation: surfactant-enhanced in situ chemical oxidation, pressure-pulse injections and advanced site investigation; The scalable solution to recycling of end of life (EOL) printed wiring boards (PWBs); Cause analysis of low collection rate of Chinese waste paper; Potential of crude oil-degrading bacteria to co-resist heavy metals in soil; Variant effects of arsenic compounds on crude oil bioremediation by crude oil-degrading bacteria in Kuwait; Photodegradation of photodynamic therapy agents in aqueous TiO2 suspensions; Analysis of sustainability aspects of the packaging deposit-refund system in Latvia Section 13: Improving safety of users in evacuation (Special session organised by F. Russo) A prototypal test using stated preferences data to model evacuation decisions; Simulation, design and structure of ITS models for supporting evacuation in smart cities; Civil risk manager at European level; Fuzzy utility models: possible applications in evacuation conditions in smart cities; Designing escape routes for buildings through an aggregate approach


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781845647155
  • Publisher: WIT Press
  • Publisher Imprint: WIT Press
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 173 WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment
  • ISBN-10: 1845647157
  • Publisher Date: 27 May 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 829
  • Sub Title: VI


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