Urban sustainability in the context of global change : towards promoting healthy and green cities / editors, R.B Singh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Singh, R. B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Sustainable development.

Environmental policy.

Physical Description:

x, 282 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Enfield, N.H. : Science Publishers, [2001]

Contents:

1. Global Environmental Change: The Singapore Response / Victor R. Savage, Shirlena Huang, Lily Kong, Brenda Yeoh 1

2. Social Sustainability in the Western Australian Urban System: State Planning Strategies to 2029 / Roy Jones 17

3. Sources of Air Pollution Emissions in Selected Metropolitan Cities of India / R.B. Singh, Bhuwan Kumar 29

4. Managing Urban Environmental Pollution / Henk Voogd 49

5. Solid Waste Management

What's The Malaysian Position? / Mohd. Nasir Hassan, Theng Lee Chong, Mizanur Rahman, Mohd. Nazeri Salleh, Zulina Zakaria, Muhamad Awang 63

6. Network Management and the Planning of Mainports in the Netherlands / Peter P.J. Driessen, Pieter Glasbergen 101

7. Environmental and Spatial Aspects of Urban Development in the Lodz Agglomeration / Tadeusz Marszal 119

8. Dynamics of Urban Land Use in Terms of Land Prices; Comparative Analysis of Major Cities in, U.S.A., Europe and Japan

Chicago, London, Duesseldorf, Sapporo and Osaka

/ Kiyotaka Jitsu 135

9. City Size Distributions and Metropolisation / Denise Pumain, Francois Moriconi-Ebrard 149

10. Evaluating Quality of Urban Environment Using GIS / Wanglin Yan, Ryosuke Shibasaki, Hideo Nakamura 165

11. About a Synthetic Model: in Indian Urbanization (The Urban Corridors) / B.K. Roy 181

12. Ecological Impact of the Land Use Change in Delhi Ridge: Anthropogenic Stress and Spatial Realities / R.B. Singh, Rakhi Parijat 189

13. Urban Geography for the XXIst Century / Denise Pumain 203

14. Rurban Landscape Management Plan and Town Planning: Japanese Case / Kiyoko Kanki, Fumihiko Kobayashi, Hiroshi Mimura 221

15. Modeling City Expansion Based on Remotely Sensed Images / Lin Li, Yohei Sato, Kuninori Otsubo 231

16. Assessing the Long-term Hydrologic Impact of Urban Sprawl a Practical Geographic Information System (GIS) Based Approach / Shilpam Pandey, Jon Harbor, Kyoung Jae Lim, Bernard Engel 247

17. On Migration, Immigration and Social Sustainability: The Recent Canadian Experience / Larry S. Bourne 261.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1578081661

OCLC:

45853203