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Sustainability and human settlements [electronic resource] : fundamental issues, modeling and simulations / M. Monto, L.S. Ganesh, Koshy Varghese.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Monto, M. (Mani), 1973-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sustainable development.
- Human settlements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book-an outcome of the authors' ongoing research on the complex relationships between humans and water in an urban context-presents an integrated model for assessing and forecasting the sustainability of human settlements, particularly urban communities. After introducing the conceptual and contextual dimensions of sustainability through an extensive review of the literature on the subject, the authors go on to explain their model. They then elaborate on the methodology for its formulation, development and implementation. This model has also been used to analyse changes in the availabilit
- Contents:
- Sustainable development : a study of the literature
- Sustainable human settlements
- Sustainable human settlements models : implementation
- Sustainable human settlements : a model formulation
- Integrated model simulation system
- Summary.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-202) and index.
- ISBN:
- 93-5280-055-9
- 1-282-42495-5
- 9786612424953
- 81-321-0355-6
- OCLC:
- 592756209
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