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This book about urban sustainability encompasses the overarching core ideas of climate, cross-cutting concerns, advanced technologies, challenges, and solutions with reference to paradigms of climate change. It addresses green urbanism with detailed emphasis on urban infrastructure and explores strategies for managing common urban environmental issues. It unveils various social and cultural issues related to sustainable urban development, inclined towards equity, poverty, and public health, and offers guidance on how to create more sustainable, resilient, and liveable urban environments. It is aimed at graduate students and researchers in civil and environmental engineering. Features: Explores a comprehensive account of urban-scale carbon neutrality. Provides thoughts about carbon neutrality’s possible pathways, challenges, and related research. Covers the impact of carbon neutrality-based policies on people, their awareness, and their potential role in influencing policies. Includes biophilic cities, green gentrification, ghetto, and geospatial advancement in sustainability. Offers a combination of theory and case studies that highlight the versatility of the concepts discussed. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in civil and environmental engineering.

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Tanu Kumari completed her PhD at the Integrative Ecology Laboratory, Banaras Hindu University. Her doctoral research focused on riparian ecology under flood inundation scenarios. She has actively participated in national and international conferences, workshops, and seminars, and she has published peer-reviewed research on sustainability, climate change, and ecosystem dynamics. Pramit Verma is currently working in the field of urban ecology and sustainable energy. He has carried out postdoctoral work at Nicolaus Copernicus University and completed his PhD at Banaras Hindu University, India. He has worked in the field of urban climate disaster risk reduction and management and has published several research articles while participating in various national and international conferences, workshops, and seminars. Pardeep Singh is currently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Delhi. He obtained his doctorate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in 2017. The area of his doctoral research is the degradation of organic pollutants through various indigenous isolated microbes and by using various types of photocatalytic. He has published more than 35 papers in international journals in the field of waste management.

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