Ecocities Now: Building the Bridge to Socially Just and Ecologically Sustainable Cities

Author:   Jennie Moore ,  Sahar Attia ,  Adel Abdel-Kader ,  Aparajithan Narasimhan
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2020 ed.
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Pages:   183
Publication Date:   01 December 2020
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Author:   Jennie Moore ,  Sahar Attia ,  Adel Abdel-Kader ,  Aparajithan Narasimhan
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   2020 ed.
Weight:   0.501kg
ISBN:  

9783030583989


ISBN 10:   3030583988
Pages:   183
Publication Date:   01 December 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Jennie Moore, Ph.D. is Director, Institute Sustainability at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and leads its Ecocity Centre of Excellence. She was the program convenor for the 2019 Ecocity World Summit and a founding coordinator of Vancouver’s EcoCity Network. She is a core advisor to the International Ecocity Standards and creator of the ecoCity Footprint Tool that helps cities and citizens identify pathways to sustainability. With over twenty years of public service, Dr. Moore was Metro Vancouver’s first Air Quality Planner in charge of climate action, first Demand Side Management Planner curbing consumption to address bioregional capacity, and first manager of the Sustainable Region Initiative developing a sustainability framework to guide regional plans. Sahar Attia, Ph.D. is Professor of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning in the Department of Architecture at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, where she also previously served as Chair of the Architecture Department. She has forty years of experience practicing urban planning, community development, architecture, and urban design in the academic and professional field, and she is MD of Associated Consultants, Head of Planning /urban design and Community Development sector and also works as an Urban Development Consultant. Dr. Attia was a member of the Ecocity World Summit 2019 program committee and is on the Board of Directors of Ecocity Builders, the international not-for-profit organization that oversees the Ecocity World Summit conference series. Adel Farid Abdel-Kader, Ph.D. is a senior executive advisor with over twenty-five years of experience in environment, sustainable development, and disaster risk reduction. He consults to governments, international organizations, industry, and not-for-profit organizations and was a member of the 2019 Ecocity World Summit program committee. He was CEO and founder of the Toronto-based Trend Green Knowledge Inc. Previously, Dr. Abdel-Kader worked at the United Nations Environment Program as Regional Coordinator, West Asia, Early Warning and Assessment and Acting Director, Regional Office for West Asia. Prior to that he was the Senior Regional Advisor and Head of the Environmental Information Unit at the Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe.  Aparajithan Narasimhan is a practicing architect and Chairman and Managing Director of Madras Building Works Group, a conglomerate comprising an architectural design firm, a furniture manufacturing unit and an interiors retail store. He was a member of the 2019 Ecocity World Summit program committee and is on the Board of Directors of Ecocity Builders, the international not-for-profit organization that oversees the Ecocity World Summit conference series. Mr. Narasimhan has over 17 years of international experience and has worked on projects in India and the United States of America in residential, residential mixed-use, active-adult, senior living, health care and research laboratories, in both new construction and renovations, totalling a value of more than US$1.7 billion.

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