Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9781402005411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str.

F. Moavenzadeh;Keisuke Hanaki;Peter Baccini

Opis

CITIES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY BRANTLEY LIDDLE AND FRED MOAVENZADEH OR at least 4000 years, cities have been centers of cultural, social, technological Fand economic innovation, inventions and their application, and political power. Only in the last 200 years, the industrial era, have urban areas grown so rapidly, and their populations increased so dramatically that their impacts on the natural environ ment are being felt beyond their immediate geographic surroundings. As the 21" cen tury dawns, megacities-great and far-reaching concentrations of power and influ ence-have become centers of the phenomena of globalization and information ex change. These concentrations of people and activity are placing stress on the natural environment so great that it is beginning to have extensive regional, and even global impacts. However, asconcentrations ofpower-political, economic, andintellectual these great urban centers share with the ancestral cities of past millennia the resources to consciously shape the future. The management of these megacities (those having populations of over eight million) in their current formative stages so taxing to natural systems, paradoxicallypresents theopportunity torestoresustainableregional and global environments. Environmental problems consequent to urban growth have two sources: pov erty and affluence. These two conditions often coexist in dramatic contrast within the same city, particularly in developing countries. In terms of environmental impact, poverty-based problems tend to have local effects, while affluence-based problems usually have transboundary and/or global effects.

Recenzje

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)

Spis treści

Future Cities: Dynamics and Sustainability; F. Moavenzadeh, et al. Introduction. Cities: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability; B. Liddle, F. Moavenzadeh. I: Resource Management on a Regional Scale. 1. Restructuring Urban Systems; P. Baccini, et al. 2. Carbon Management in Future Cities: Long-Term Scenarios for the Transition to a Second Solar Society; D.B. Muller, et al. 3. Sustainable Water Management; T. Aramaki. II: Urban Activities: Local and Global Impacts. 4. A Multisystems Analysis of Sustainable Development: Brook Revitalization in Zurich; M. Hugentobler, S. Gysi. 5. Environmental Loading of Resources and Heat Recovery; K. Hanaki. 6. Towards Sustainable Urban Transport: Finding Synergies Between Lowering Local and Global Impacts; B. Liddle, F. Moavenzadeh. 7. The Urban Heat Environment and Urban Sustainability. S. Dhakal. 8. 'Green' Buildings: Private and Public Gains; B. Liddle, M. Finch. III: Developing and Developed Countries: Challenges and Cooperation. 9. The Sustainability Challenge for Climate Change: Balancing Inter- and Intragenerational Equity; B. Liddle, F. Moavenzadeh. 10. Megacities and Global Accords; N. Choucri. 11. Research Partnerships with Developing Countries: Applying Material Flux Analysis in Tunja, Colombia; C. Binder.

O autorze

Peter Baccini is Professor Emeritus at the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH), where he was Professor of Resource and Waste Management. Paul H. Brunner is Professor at the Institute for Water Quality, Resources, and Waste Management at Vienna University of Technology. Paul H. Brunner is Professor at the Institute for Water Quality, Resources, and Waste Management at Vienna University of Technology.