Improving Urban Environments (eBook, PDF)

Strategies for Healthier and More Sustainable Cities
Redaktion: Ragazzi, Marco

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Because cities are such complex systems, creating sustainable urban environments is a challenging goal. No single strategy-or even several strategies-will be enough to achieve tomorrow's healthy and sustainable cities. The challenges resist compartmentalization, because the factors intersect and

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781771884174
• Artikelnr.: 45435324

Autorenporträt

Ragazzi, Marco

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I: Overview. Environmental Assessments in the Built
Environment: Crucial yet Underdeveloped. Part II: Improving Urban Air
Quality. Critical Analysis of Strategies for PM Reduction in Urban Areas.
Application of Strategies for Particulate Matter Reduction in Urban Areas:
An Italian Case. Infrastructure and Automobile Shifts: Positioning Transit
to Reduce Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts for Urban Sustainability Goals.
Recent Photocatalytic Applications for Air Purification in Belgium. Part
III: Municipal Solid Waste Alternatives. Case Study: Finding Better
Solutions for Municipal Solid Waste Management in a Semi Local Authority in
Sri Lanka. Incineration of Pre-Treated Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) for
Energy Co-Generation in a Non-Densely Populated Area. Part IV: Water
Management. Innovative Urban Water Management as a Climate Change
Adaptation Strategy: Results from the Implementation of the Project "Water
Against Climate Change (WATACLIC)." Full-Scale Implementation of a Vertical
Membrane Bioreactor for Simultaneous Removal of Organic Matter and
Nutrients from Municipal Wastewater. Part V: Energy Consumption. Energy
Benchmarking of Commercial Buildings: A Low-Cost Pathway toward Urban
Sustainability. Energy Pattern Analysis of a Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Part VI: Conclusion. Sustainable Urban (re-)Development with Building
Integrated Energy, Water and Waste Systems. Urban Ecosystem Health
Assessment and Its Application in Management: A Multi-Scale Perspective.
Index.