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Steering Sustainability in an Urbanizing World : Policy, Practice and Performance

By Anitra Nelson

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0754671461, 9780754684893, 9780754671466
LCC
HT241 .S74 2007
Open Library ID
OL10853205M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1108488 bytes)
Pages
291\291
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Sustainability has become the key challenge for urban planners, housing and infrastructure policy makers. Citizens are increasingly encouraged to live more compactly; in denser urban developments, to use less water and other natural resources and to choose public transport. While councils, government agencies and private business invest in a broad range of promotions offering discounts on sustainable products and services, uptake has been slow and the impacts marginal at a time when environmental stresses suggest that we must act fast. This book examines this pressing problem in a holistic way, discussing broad-scale sustainability policies and programmes for achieving sustainable urban futures. It brings together academics and practitioners to analyse the complexity and interdependence of principles, models, processes and practices of sustainability in a range of integrated sectors as well as the establishment and maintenance of sustainable physical infrastructure in cities.

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