Urban sustainability in theory and practice : circles of sustainability
By: James, Paul
Material type: BookSeries: Advances in urban sustainability.Publisher: London : Routledge, c2015.Description: xxii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781138025738; 9781138025721Subject(s): Sustainable urban development | Urban ecology (Sociology) | Sociology, Urban | City planning -- Environmental aspectsDDC classification: 307.76 JA UR Online resources: Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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307.76 GR TE Telecommunications and the city : | 307.76 GR TE Telecommunications and the city : | 307.76 IN TE The intercultural city : | 307.76 JA UR Urban sustainability in theory and practice : | 307.76 KO HU The human city : | 307.76 KR CI Civic ecology : | 307.76 MC CO Conservation for cities : |
"Earthscan from Routledge."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: Setting the Global-Local Scene 1. Confronting a World in Crisis 2. Defining the World around Us Part 2: Understanding Social Life 3. Social Domains 4. Social Mapping 5. Social Meaning Part 3. Developing Methods and Tools 6. Assessing Sustainability 7. Generating an Urban Sustainability Profile 8. Measuring Community Sustainability 9. Conducting a Peer Review 10. Adapting to Climate Change 11. Projecting Alternative Futures 12. Simulating Future Trends Conclusion.
"This book responds to the crises of sustainability in the world today by going back to basics. It makes four major contributions to thinking about and acting upon cities. It provides a means of reflexivity learning about urban sustainability in the process of working practically for positive social development and projected change. It challenges the usually taken-for-granted nature of sustainability practices while providing tools for modifying those practices. It emphasizes the necessity of a holistic and integrated understanding of urban life. Finally it rewrites existing dominant understandings of the social whole such as the triple-bottom line approach that reduce environmental questions to externalities and social questions to background issues. The book is a practical and conceptual guide for rethinking urban engagement"--