Sustainable development / editor, C.A. Brebbia, WessexInstitute, Uk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brebbia, C. A., editor.

Series:

WIT transactions on the built environment.

WIT transactions on the built environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Southampton : WIT Press, [2016]

Summary:

This collection of research papers, presented at meetings organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology (WIT), concerns a variety of issues relating to the area of sustainable development. WIT has a long and very successful record of organising conferences on the topic of sustainability, which requires an interdisciplinary approach.

Contents:

Cover; Sustainable Development; Copyright Page; Preface; Contents; Section 1: Sustainable assessment and indicators; Implementation of new spatial tools for integrated urban development plans in small and medium cities; Cu Lao Cham Biosphere Reserve sustainability project in Vietnam:corporate framework for sustainable development management; Urban sustainability and individual behaviour; An assessment plan for lean and green sustainability practices in the supply chain of hotels

Sustainability assessment in the built environment of Lake Mariout, Alexandria city, Egypt: factors and a decision frameworkRegional sustainable development assessment for an air quality index system: a case study of the Macau Special Administration Region; Contemporary development and sustainability indicatorsat the Royal Commission of Yanbu; Methodology towards defining multi-scalar attributes of sustainability indicators in historical urban areas: assessment tool development; Section 2: Regional planning

Integrated territorial investments: challenges and opportunities - case study of RomaniaPeri-urban dynamics and land-use planning for the Greater Cairo Region in Egypt; Bicentric conurbation and its territorial development; Section 3: Sustainability and the built environment; Green property management for commercial buildings; Policies for promoting green buildings at the local level: a case study of Ningbo, China; Forecasting office rentals in Gaborone in the short and long term

"Taking the pulse" of doctors and nurses to reduce pharmaceutical residues in the water cycle: a ground-breaking survey and its educational implicationsPreliminary study on the estimation of urban embodied emissions using case-based reasoning; Section 4: Energy and the environment; Energy-efficient building with the integrated use of renewable energy sources in severe weather conditions; Ecosystem based business model of a smart grid; PQ analysis of a rooftop solar PV: a grid connected PV system pilot project in Indonesia

Enhanced biogas production from landfill leachate by low frequency ultrasoundLNG: an alternative fuel for road freight transport in Europe; CO2 emissions, energy consumption and GDP: evidence from Iraq; Section 5: Environmental management; Anthropic pressure and management of the municipal natural area of the "Clot de Galvany" (Elche, Spain); Examining change in complex social-ecological systems using multiple long-term records: the New Forest - a case study; Harnessing latent sustainability: a postcolonial perspective

Sustainable development of P/M ceramics from steel mill scale and lignite fly ash mixtures

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 15, 2016).

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ISBN:

1-78466-158-9

OCLC:

941700257