Buch, Englisch, 532 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1090 g
Buch, Englisch, 532 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1090 g
ISBN: 978-0-12-820730-7
Verlag: ELSEVIER
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Theme 1: Emerging facets of urban ecology - urban and urbanization, theory and concepts 1. Urban ecology - current state of research and concepts 2. Urban metabolism: old challenges, new frontiers and the research agenda ahead
Theme 2: Urban land use/land cover 3. Urban growth pattern detection and analysis 4. Exposition of spatial urban growth pattern using PSO-SLEUTH and identifying its effects on surface temperature
Theme 3: Social-ecological systems 5. Stressors of disaster-induced displacement and migration in India 6. Ecological economics of an urban settlement: an overview 7. Urban greenspace, social equity and human wellbeing
Theme 4: Urban Environment 8. Urbanization, urban agriculture and food security 9. Carbon reduction strategies for the built environment in a tropical city 10. Trends in active and sustainable mobility: experiences from emerging cycling territories of Dhaka and Innsbruck 11. Air quality and its impact on urban environment 12. Sustainable water management in megacities of the future 13. Comparing invasive alien plant community composition between urban, peri-urban and rural areas; the city of Cape Town as a case study
Theme 5: Urban material balance 14. Types, sources and management of urban wastes 15. Nutrient recovery from the municipal waste stream: status and prospects 16. Determinants of soil carbon dynamics in urban ecosystems
Theme 6: Cities: healthy, smart and sustainable 17. Urban ecology and human health: implications of urban heat island, air pollution and climate change nexus 18. Cities management and sustainable development: monitoring and assessment approach 19. Challenges in assessing urban sustainability
Theme 7: Sustainable urban design 20. Towards sustainable urban redevelopment: urban design informed by morphological patterns and ecologies of informal settlements in cities 21. Assessing the role of urban design in a rapidly urbanizing historical city and its contribution in restoring its urban ecology: the case of Varanasi, India 22. 'Green building' movement in India: study on institutional support and regulatory support 23. Challenges and innovations of transportation and collection of waste 24. Critical assessment and future dimensions for the urban ecological systems