Sustainable landscape planning in selected urban regions / Makoto Yokohari, Akinobu Murakami, Yuji Hara, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yokohari, Makoto, 1958- editor.

Murakami, Akinobu, 1931- editor.

Hara, Yūji, 1948-2007, editor.

Tsuchiya, Kazuaki, editor.

Series:

Science for sustainable societies 2197-7348

Science for Sustainable Societies, 2197-7348

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable urban development.

Ecological landscape design.

Landscape ecology.

Urban landscape architecture.

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Urbanization--Environmental aspects.

Urbanization.

Urban ecology (Biology).

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Physical Description:

xv, 265 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo : Springer, [2017]

Summary:

This book provides a unique contribution to the science of sustainable societies by challenging the traditional concept of rural-urban dichotomy. It combines environmental engineering and landscape sciences perspectives on urban region issues, making the book a unique work in urban study literatures. Today's extended urban regions often maintain rural features within their boundaries and also have strong social, economic, and environmental linkages with the surrounding rural areas. These intra- and inter- linkages between urban and rural systems produce complex interdependences with global and local sustainability issues, including those of climate change, resource exploitation, ecosystem degradation and human wellbeing. Planning and other prospective actions for the sustainability of urban regions, therefore, cannot solely depend on "urban" approaches; rather, they need to integrate broader landscape perspectives that take extended social and ecological systems into consideration. This volume shows how to untangle, diagnose, and transform urban regions through distinctive thematic contributions across a variety of academic disciplines ranging from environmental engineering and geography to landscape ecology and urban planning. Case studies, selected from across the world and investigating urban regions in East Asia, Europe, North America and South-East Asia, collectively illustrate shared and differentiated drivers of sustainability challenges and provide informative inputs to global and local sustainability initiatives.

Contents:

Foreword

Preface

Part I Untangling Urban Regions: Theoretical Frameworks for Sustainable Landscape Planning

Chapter 1 Landscape Planning for Resilient Cities in Asia: Lessons from Integrated Rural-Urban Land-Use in Japan

Chapter 2 The Sustainability of Extended Urban Spaces in Asia in the 21st Century: Policy and Research Challenges

Chapter 3 Establishing a Sustainable Community through Urban and Rural Fusion

Chapter 4 Sustainable Urban Structure and Transport policy in the Metropolitan Region

Chapter 5 Creation of Collaborative Networks at the City-Regional Level: Two Innovative Cases in Japan

Part II Diagnosing Urban Regions: Social and Environmental Consequences of Urbanization

Chapter 6 Features of Urbanization and Changes in the Thermal Environment in Jakarta, Indonesia

Chapter 7 Strategic Analysis of Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture in Asia: Issues, Potential and Challenges

Chapter 8 Farmland Conversion and the Sustainable City: the Case of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Chapter 9 Urbanization in the Philippines and Its Influence on Agriculture

Chapter 10 The Landscape of Bangkok's Agricultural Fringe and City Region Sustainability: An Ecological and Cultural Co-Evolution

Chapter 11 Infectious Risk Assessment with Exposure to Pathogens in Flood Water

A case study of Manila's vulnerability to climate change

Part III Diagnosing Urban Regions: Rural

Urban Linkages and Sustainability Challenges

Chapter 12 Feeding urban regions: Estimating the energy consumption of domestic vegetable supplies for Osaka, Japan

Chapter 13 Catchment-scale water management of wastewater treatment in an urban sewerage system with CO2 emission assessment

Chapter 14 Dispersion of contaminants in urban regions and beyond

Chapter 15 Urban-Rural Interrelations in Water Resource Management: Problems and Factors Affecting the Sustainability of the Drinking Water Supply in the City of Bandung, Indonesia

Part IV Transforming Urban Regions: Toward Regional Sustainability

Chapter 16 Urban Agriculture in the Philippines: Initiatives, Practices, Significance, and Threats

Regional Planning and Projects in the Ruhr Region (Germany)

Chapter 17 Scaling-Up: An Overview of Urban Agriculture in North America

Chapter 18 Regional Planning and Projects in the Ruhr Region (Germany)

Chapter 19 Bio-waste Re-use through Composting: The Response of Barangay Holy Spirit in Quezon City, Philippines, to Solid-Waste Management

Chapter 20 A Concept on Integrated Groundwater Management for Sustaining Indonesian Cities using the System Interrelationship Model

Chapter 21 Informal Collaborative Network: a Case Study of Meinung, Taiwan.

ISBN:

4431564438

9784431564430

OCLC:

953598562