Building Sustainable Cities
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-45532-3 (ISBN)
Nowadays, researchers, students, and stakeholders are highly involved in sustainability issues. Because of this, they need a guiding document to help them develop and implement sustainability programs at the level of companies and institutions.
In this book, the authors discuss and explain basic concepts of sustainability-related to social, economic and environmental aspects, as well as strategies for its implementation.
Aldo Alvarez-Risco is a Full-Time Researcher at the Universidad de San Martin de Porres in Peru in Sustainability Unit Research. He is also PhD at Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Doctor in Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Master in Pharmacology and Pharmacist at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and Master Pharmaceutical Care at Universidad de Granada. Marc A. Rosen is a Professor at University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. He is Editor-in-Chief of various journals and Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in energy technology, sustainable energy and the environmental impact of energy systems. Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales is a Researcher in Sustainability area, and a Pharmacist at Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana. Her research is in Bio-business, Audit, Environmental Management, Import-Export Management, which is linked to the ancestral knowledge of medicinal plants in the jungle regarding their traditional uses. Dora Marinova is a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council's Panel on Centres of Research Excellence in Population Health. Her research interests cover innovation models, including the evolving global green system of innovation and the emerging area of sustainometrics. Dora is Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Education Economics and Development (published by Inderscience, Switzerland) and Transformations: An Interdisciplinary Journal (published by EBSCO, USA).
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Sustainability: concepts, definitions and applications.- Chapter 3. Energy sustainability.- Chapter 4. Cities.- Chapter 5. Sustainable cities.- Chapter 6. Informality and city, concomitants denied.- Chapter 7. Health literacy, pharmaceutical care and population health.- Chapter 8. Equity.- Chapter 9. Food insecurity.- Chapter 10. Violence against women and sustainable cities.- Chapter 11. Sustainable urban form and design.- Chapter 12. Sustainable transportation in cities.- Chapter 13. Sustainability of urban infrastructure.- Chapter 14. Sustainability urban energy.- Chapter 15. Urban waste management.- Chapter 16. Management of water.- Chapter 17. Climate change and cities.- Chapter 18. Consumer debt and social sustainability.- Chapter 19. Entrepreneurship for sustainable cities.- Chapter 20. Green consumerism.- Chapter 21. Sustainable Development Goals and cities.- Chapter 22. Closing remarks.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.09.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | XV, 349 p. 65 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 709 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| Schlagworte | Climate Change and Cities • Sustainability of urban energy • Sustainability of urban infrastructure • sustainable cities • Sustainable Development Goals • urban waste management |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-45532-7 / 3030455327 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-45532-3 / 9783030455323 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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