Steven Cohen

The Sustainable City

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Steven Cohen presents an approachable and applicable guide to urban sustainability that highlights how new, greener trends in city development touch our lives on a daily basis. Replete with recommendations and insights, The Sustainable City has invaluable lessons for anyone seeking to link public policy to promoting a sustainable lifestyle.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780231182041
• ISBN-10: 023118204X
• Artikelnr.: 48097419

Autorenporträt

Steven Cohen is the former executive director of Columbia University's Earth Institute and a professor in the practice of public affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He is the director of the Master of Public Administration Program in Environmental Science and Policy and the Master of Science in Sustainability Management at Columbia. His books include Sustainability Management: Lessons from and for New York City, America, and the Planet (2011) and Understanding Environmental Policy (2014, second edition), both from Columbia University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Concepts
1. Defining the Sustainable City
2. Sustainable Urban Systems: Defined and Explained
3. The Sustainable Lifestyle: Defined and Explained
4. The Transition to Sustainably Managed Organizations
5. The Role of Politics and Public Policy in Building Sustainable Cities
Part II: Cases in Urban Sustainability
6. Waste Management in New York City, Hong Kong and Beijing
7. Mass and Personal Transit
8. The Building of the Smartgrid: Cases of Microgrid Development
9. Parks and Public Space
10. Sustainable Urban Living
Part III: Conclusions
11. Toward the Sustainable City
Works Cited
Index

Rezensionen

At the city level, the question of how to handle water resources, energy use, and transportation is not abstract but concrete. Citizens, planners, business people, and policy makers can easily see the problems and how a sustainable approach would be beneficial. Steven Cohen draws on his extensive teaching and public management experience in documenting the kinds of sustainability measures that have been successful in major cities around the world, and he points to what other cities realistically can do in the future. Michael E. Kraft, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy