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Author: Brian Roberts
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9715616070
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book considers urbanization in Asia and presents case studies of sustainable development "best practice" from 12 Asian countries: Bangladesh, Cambodia, People's Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Viet Nam.
Author: “一带一路”城市可持续发展案例研究课题组著
Publisher: BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Published: 2019-04-01
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 7520342123
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →2015年9月联合国正式通过了《2030年可持续发展议程》及其17个可持续发展目标（以下简称“联合国2030年议程”），从此联合国可持续发展目标与“一带一路”倡议的协同发展一直是沿线各个国家乃至全球关注的重点。兼顾各个国家的不同利益需求和关切点，在政策层面上与可持续发展目标实现对接，避免发展中国家重走以生态环境破坏为代价换取经济增长的老路。近年来城市的可持续发展问题受到越来越多的关注，城市作为“一带一路”建设实施的基本单元，是承载人口和人类活动最主要的空间，推动“一带一路”沿线地区城市的可持续发展在“一带一路”沿线国家和地区繁荣发展过程中发挥着极其重要的作用，对全球实现可持续发展意义重大。本书围绕城市生态环境整治、城市基础设施建设、绿色城市、人文城市、智慧城市、城市建设投融资模式创新六个方面，选取了国内外20多个城市可持续发展的最佳实践案例，总结其发展经验。可以看出，“一带一路”沿线国家在城市建设方面更加可持续，与联合国可持续发展目标更加契合。同时，通过实施“一带一路”倡议将中国改革开放40年城市发展的经验输出，供“一带一路”沿线国家借鉴。最后，从政治、经济、文化角度提出了城市可持续发展未来愿景，从政策沟通、设施联通、贸易畅通、资金融通、民心相通五个方面建议要加强城市间区域合作，促进国内外城市可持续发展，早日实现联合国可持续发展目标。
Author: Zheng Zhao
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2018-12-19
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9813236833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book evaluates and analyses the level of green development in over 100 major cities in Asia Pacific. A quantitative analysis of the relationship with economic growth, income distribution, innovation capabilities, service sector, governance levels, and city clusters are accumulated and presented in the form of a new index; the Urban Green Development Index (UGDI). Amongst the cities discussed in the case studies are Penang (Malaysia), Singapore, Vladivostok (Russia), Portland (USA), Hamburg (Germany), and Stockholm (Sweden).
Author: David B. Abraham
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-03-05
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 3030591735
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume presents North American best practices and perspectives on developing, managing and monitoring indicators to track development progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in local communities and cities. In 4 main sections, the book presents and frames the many ways in which community indicator programs are either integrating or retooling to integrate the SDGs into their existing frameworks, or how they are developing new programs to track and report progress on the SDGs. This is the first volume that focuses on SDG adoption within the context of North Americans cities and communities, and the unique issues and opportunities prevalent in these settings. The chapters are developed by experienced academics and practitioners of community planning and sustainable development, and will add broad perspective on public policy, organizational management, information management and data visualization. This volume presents a case-study approach to chapters, offering lessons that can be used by three main audiences: 1) teachers and researchers in areas of urban, regional, and environmental planning, urban development, and public policy; 2) professional planners, decision-makers, and urban managers; and 3) sustainability activists and interested groups.
Author: Steven Cohen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2021-06-15
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0231551703
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Living sustainably is not just about preserving the wilderness or keeping nature pristine. The transition to a green economy depends on cities. Economic, technological, and cultural forces are moving people out of rural areas and into urban areas. If we are to avert climate catastrophe, we will need our cities to coexist with nature without destroying it. Urbanization holds the key to long-term sustainability, reducing per capita environmental impacts while improving economic prosperity and social inclusion for current and future generations. The Sustainable City provides a broad and engaging overview of the urban systems of the twenty-first century. It approaches urban sustainability from the perspectives of behavioral change, organizational management, and public policy, looking at case studies of existing legislation, programs, and public-private partnerships that strive to align modern urban life and sustainability. The book synthesizes the disparate strands of sustainable city planning in an approachable and applicable guide that highlights how these issues touch our lives on a daily basis, including the transportation we take, the public health systems that protect us, where our energy comes from, and what becomes of our food waste. This second edition of The Sustainable City dives deeper into the financing of sustainable infrastructure and initiatives and puts additional emphasis on the roles that individual citizens and varied stakeholders can play. It also reviews current trends in urban inequality and discusses whether a model of sustainability that embraces a multidimensional approach to development and a multistakeholder approach to decision making can foster social inclusion. It features many more examples and new international case studies spanning the globe.
Author: Jo Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-04-21
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0429955421
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With cities striving to meet sustainable development goals, circular urban systems are gaining momentum, especially in Europe. This research-based book defines the circular city and circular development. It explains the shift in focus from a purely economic concept, which promotes circular business models in cities, to one that explores a new approach to urban development. This approach offers huge opportunities and addresses important sustainability issues: resource consumption and waste; climate change; the health of urban populations; social inequalities and the creation of sustainable urban economies. It examines the different approaches to circular development, drawing on research conducted in four European cities: Amsterdam, London, Paris and Stockholm. It explores different development pathways and levers for a circular urban transformation. It highlights the benefits of adopting a circular approach to development in cities, but acknowledges that these benefits are not shared equally across society. Finally, it focuses on the challenges to implementing circular development faced by urban actors. This ground-breaking book will be essential reading to scholars, students, practitioners and policymakers interested in the circular economy, urban sustainability, urban ecology, urban planning, urban regeneration, urban resilience, adaptive cities and regenerative cities.
Author: Ernest J. Yanarella
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2011-09-01
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0857284002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Outlining a robust strategy for sustainable city-regions that has emerged from over two-and-a-half decades of theoretical and practical work, ‘The City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability’ cuts through the received wisdom and popular misunderstanding surrounding sustainability to demonstrate how global problems can best be addressed at the local-regional scale. Featuring an array of case studies – focusing on both strong and weak examples of sustainable cities – the text delivers a bold message to the urban planners of tomorrow: only the road less traveled holds real promise of creating sustainable city-regions, with this journey requiring the balanced guidance of ecological and technological conviviality.
Author: Xiaolong Zou
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-12-11
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9819970156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Marco Keiner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-03-09
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1402029217
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hans van Ginkel Rector, United Nations University The challenges of the world's future are linked to the growing share of the global population that will reside in urban areas. UN projections indicate that by 2030 the world's urban population share will rise to 60 percent. Of the two billion added to the global population, 99 percent will be added to the urban areas of the world. Of this number, 95 percent will be in countries of the developing world. As most people will live in urban areas we had better work to build and organize them as both attractive and less resource consuming places. That is, to promote sustainable urban development is to promote the creation of dense human settlements that are livable and have reduced their impacts on larger scale ecosystems. While much attention has been focused on the "mega-cities," those with a population of over 10 million, the amount of people living in these places will remain almost constant while the smaller and medium size cities will be the great absorbers of the world's urban population. Indeed, it is predicted that while the absolute number of people that will live in urban centers of 10 million or more will increase from approximately 263 to 375 million between 2000 and 20 IS, their share of the total urban population will only increase from 9. 2 percent to 9. 8 percent, a 6. 34 percent increase.
Author: Wu Deng
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-05-08
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9811083452
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores China’s eco-development strategies and practices from a multi-scalar perspective, discussing the importance of interplay between multi spatial levels of the built environment, as well as the stakeholders who are key players for China’s eco-development. Based on a selection of eco-development Chinese case studies - eco-city, eco-community and eco-building - it highlights how specific eco initiatives and green features are applied and practiced, offering a guide to China’s strategy directions and design and planning trends. The book identifies gaps and strategies and solutions for future eco-development expected to take place in China in the coming decades, as well as useful references for eco-development in other countries, and provides a useful resource for studies in the fields of urbanism, sustainable development and eco-design.
