Overview
The world's burgeoning cities are a critical fact of the 21st Century - and represent one of the greatest challenges to the future. By the year 2050 cities with populations over three million will more than double from 70 today to over 150. The authors of this book claim that contrary to conventional wisdom, that cities distort natural processes, just the opposite is true. Cities are far more than the sinks of energy, vast drains of natural resources, and obstacles to sustainable development. Properly managed, they claim, cities can be transformative arenas in which raw materials may be rationally and economically developed to support people decently, and whole regions sustainibly. This volume provides ideas for managing the mega-cities of our future. The editors' goal is to shape a new way of thinking about mega-cities - one that promotes their function in modern societies as engines of the ideas, technologies, and loci of political will needed to build a new regime of global sustainability.
Full Product Details
Author: F. Moavenzadeh ,
Keisuke Hanaki ,
Peter Baccini
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.790kg
ISBN: 9781402005411
ISBN 10: 1402005415
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 30 April 2002
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
From the reviews: Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability, is an edited volume that consists of theoretical and analytical articles. ! The editors are optimistic that despite all the impacts cities are making on natural processes, cities are not necessarily in conflict with the environment. ! the book presents articles with a highly academic focus that should prove useful to students and researchers who are interested in urban metabolism and its sustainability linkages. (Xuemei Bai, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 7 (2), 2003)
From the reviews: Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability, is an edited volume that consists of theoretical and analytical articles. ... The editors are optimistic that despite all the impacts cities are making on natural processes, cities are not necessarily in conflict with the environment. ... the book presents articles with a highly academic focus that should prove useful to students and researchers who are interested in urban metabolism and its sustainability linkages. (Xuemei Bai, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 7 (2), 2003)
From the reviews: <p> Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability, is an edited volume that consists of theoretical and analytical articles. a ] The editors are optimistic that despite all the impacts cities are making on natural processes, cities are not necessarily in conflict with the environment. a ] the book presents articles with a highly academic focus that should prove useful to students and researchers who are interested in urban metabolism and its sustainability linkages. (Xuemei Bai, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 7 (2), 2003)
