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Urban Disaster Resilience and Security
This edited book investigates the interrelations of disaster impacts, resilience and security in an urban context. Urban as a term captures megacities, cities, and generally, human settlements, that are characterised by concentration of quantifiable and non-quantifiable subjects, objects and value attributions to them. The scope is to narrow down resilience from an all-encompassing concept to applied ways of scientifically attempting to ‚measure’ this type of disaster related resilience. 28 chapters in this book reflect opportunities and doubts of the disaster risk science community regarding this ‚measurability’. Therefore, examples utilising both quantitative and qualitative approa...
Urban and Regional Data Management
Spatial technologies like GIS, CAD, and spatial DBMS have proved their applicability and usability in almost every sector of urban development. Urban Planning Systems, Public Participation Systems, and others have been continuously developed and improved contributing to better decision making, communicating ideas between different actors as well as
Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften
Der Übergang in eine nachhaltige Gesellschaft ist eine der zentralen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit. Eine wichtige Voraussetzung für die weitere Etablierung von Nachhaltigkeit liegt in der Professionalisierung der Entscheidungsträger von morgen. Dazu ist eine angemessene nachhaltigkeitswissenschaftliche (Aus-)Bildung erforderlich. Das Lehrbuch Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaft von Lehrenden der Fakultät Nachhaltigkeit der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg möchte dazu einen Beitrag leisten. Nach einer Einführung in die Entstehungsgeschichte von nachhaltiger Entwicklung und Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaft werden zunächst naturwissenschaftlich-technische und humanwissenschaftliche Grundlagen aufbereitet. Anschließend werden nachhaltigkeitswissenschaftliche Methoden sowie integrierende und reflektierende Ansätze zu Transdisziplinarität und Ethik dargestellt. Schließlich werden beispielhaft Problem- und Handlungsfelder der Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaften (z.B. Wasser, Energie oder nachhaltige Gemeindeentwicklung) vorgestellt.
Water Sustainability
Using the latest mapping techniques, J.A.A. Jones, Chair of the IGU Commission for Water Sustainability, examines water availability, the impact of climate change and the problems created for water management worldwide as well as possible solutions. Water Sustainability: A Global Perspective is one of the first textbook to meld the physical and human aspects affecting the world's water resources. Part One outlines the challenges and investigates the human factors: population growth; urbanization and pollution; the commercialization of water, including globalization and privatization; and the impacts of war, terrorism and the credit crunch. Part Two examines the physical aspects: the restless...
Strategies and Tools for a Sustainable Rural Rio de Janeiro
This book is a compilation of recent developments in land, ecosystem, and water management in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. The state is located in the biodiversity hotspot of the Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica), a biome characterized by high biological diversity and endemism. At the same time the state of Rio de Janeiro emerged to one of the economic hubs in Latin America. This development process has been accompanied by population growth, industrialization, urbanization, as well as consumption and degradation of land and water resources. In the past years many efforts have been made to stop or at least slow down these degradation processes and restore degraded environments with ...
Planning Support Systems Best Practice and New Methods
Planning Support Systems: Retrospect and Prospect It has been nearly twenty years since the term ‘planning support systems’ (PSS) first appeared in an article by Britton Harris (Harris 1989) and more than ten years since the concept was more broadly introduced in the academic literature (Harris and Batty 1993; Batty 1995; Klosterman 1997). As a result, the publication of a new book on PSS provides an excellent opportunity to assess past progress in the field and speculate on future developments. PSS have clearly become very popular in the academic world. This is the fourth edited book devoted to the topic following Brail and Klosterman (2001), Geertman and Stillwell (2003), and a third b...
Building for People
In Building for People, architect and ecodistrict planner Michael Eliason makes the case for low-carbon ecodistricts and presents practical tools for developing these residential and mixed-use communities. As cities turn brownfields into green fields and look to maximize public investment in transit and infrastructure, ecodistricts are the answer. Eliason shows that this type of affordable, climate-adaptive living option is possible anywhere. Full-color photos and illustrations show what is possible in ecodistricts through examples around the world. Looking at small districts like Steingau in Kirchheim unter Teck, to massive urban redevelopment like Vienna's Sonnwendviertel and Seestadt-Aspern as models, Eliason argues that building regulations and planning processes in the US must change to make these livable neighborhoods possible. Building for People shows professionals involved in regulating, planning, or designing our communities that high-quality, low-carbon living is within reach.
