Sustainable urban development

ISBN-13: 9783659865596 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 136 str.

Akshey Bhargava; Swati Bhargava

Opis

The present book is aimed at identifying the causal factors, consequential impacts and sustainable solutions with innovative approaches. The book is divided into seven chapters to cover broadly all the salient issues. It deals with conceptual aspects of sustainable urban development , innovative parameters for urban planning , bottlenecks of present planning . It also cover Environmental sustainability of urban planning including physical planning, Environmental Health Management, Sustainable Development and Urban Environmental Management Strategies along with Environmental Policy Parameters in Urban Planning mainly in the form of optimization between concreting and non- concreting urban surface area, optimization between vertical to horizontal expansion of the city, urban ventilation coefficient, Heat island effect, Albedo effect, urban atmospheric stability, temperature inversion.The book is useful for students of civil and architectural engineering along with urban planning students, urban planners, policy makers, pollution control authorities, transport authorities and planners, local municipal authorities, and many other government departments including professionals, NGOs.

O autorze

Bhargava, Akshey
The author Dr. Akshey Bhargava is a highly qualified and an expert in the field of Environmental engineering. He has done B.E. (Civil), M.E. Civil (Environment Engg.), and Ph.D. (Engg.) as also LL.B (Professional). He was earlier in the Rajasthan Pollution Control Board, Jaipur on the post of Member Secretary .