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Water centric sustainable communities : planning, retrofitting, and building the next urban environment / Vladimir Novotny, John Ahern, Paul Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Novotny, Vladimir, 1938-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Municipal water supply.
- Water resources development.
- Sustainable development.
- Urban runoff--Management.
- Urban runoff.
- Watershed management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (627 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc. Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled. This book will be the first to capture all of the current work on this idea in a single, integrated, plan for designing the water-centric cities of the future. From new construction to the retrofitting of existing systems, this book presents the c
- Contents:
- Water Centric Sustainable Communities: Planning, Retrofitting, and Building the Next Urban Environment; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter I: HISTORIC PARADIGMS OF URBAN WATER/STORMWATER/WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT AND DRIVERS FOR CHANGE; Chapter II: URBAN SUSTAINABILITYCONCEPTS; Chapter III: PLANNING AND DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT CITIES: THEORIES, STRATEGIES, AND BEST PRACTICES FOR GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE; Chapter IV: STORMWATER POLLUTION ABATEMENT AND FLOOD CONTROL-STORM WATER AS A RESOURCE; Chapter V: WATER DEMAND ANDCONSERVATION; Chapter VI: WATER RECLAMATIONAND REUSE
- Chapter VII: TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY UNIT PROCESSESChapter VIII: ENERGY AND URBAN WATER SYSTEMS-TOWARDS NET ZERO CARBON FOOTPRINT; Chapter IX: RESTORING URBANSTREAMS; Chapter X: PLANNING ANDMANAGEMENT OF SUSTAINABLE FUTURE COMMUNITIES; Chapter XI: ECOCITIES: EVALUATION AND SYNTHESIS; APPENDIX; INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786612816741
- 9780470642849
- 047064284X
- 9781282816749
- 1282816748
- 9780470949962
- 0470949961
- 9780470642825
- 0470642823
- OCLC:
- 669165974
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