Editors:
- The book contains contributions on technical and social and environmental solutions for implementing urban transformations. A benefit for the audience is easy access to research which has been realized in a broad array of disciplines and to widen the view on possible paths for sustainable urban transformations. The book contains three major parts besides the introduction and the outlook/reflection section
- The book provides a well elaborated and deliberately framed understanding of urban transformations. Each of the three mentioned parts of the book deals with one of the main conceptual approaches which we perceive pivotal for our understanding of urban transformation – resource efficiency, resilience and quality of life. All chapters within one part closely relate to the respective conceptual frame. This leads to a high coherence between the articles of each chapter and allows the reader to get more comprehensive insights on the three parts resource ee communication across disciplinary boundaries visible and accessible for the reader
- fficiency, resilience and quality of life
- The book contains a mix of different case studies, theoretical works, as well as shorter articles which all deal with recent issues of urban transformations. This mix of contributions is carefully edited and contributes to a complex, yet straight-forward understanding of urban transformations. Therefore, the customer gets not only individual research results on urban environmental issues but also the result of interdisciplinary discussions and a conceptualization of urban transformations
- This book presents interdisciplinary urban-environmental work in a specific way. Interdisciplinarity is provided by the chapters in different ways – be it through direct co-authorship of social and natural as well as technical scholars or through the deliberate hints towards anchor points of a chapter’s results for an interdisciplinary context. In doing so, the book combines different ways to mak
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conceptual Approaches of Sustainable Urban Transformations
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Urban Resources and Governance
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Quality of Life and Ecosystem services
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Urban and Environment Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Sigrun Kabisch, Florian Koch, Annegret Haase, Kerstin Krellenberg
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Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Erik Gawel
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Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany
Sonja Knapp
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Centre for Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
Jaime Nivala, Andreas Zehnsdorf
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Transformations
Book Subtitle: Sustainable Urban Development Through Resource Efficiency, Quality of Life and Resilience
Editors: Sigrun Kabisch, Florian Koch, Erik Gawel, Annegret Haase, Sonja Knapp, Kerstin Krellenberg, Jaime Nivala, … Andreas Zehnsdorf
Series Title: Future City
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59324-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59323-4Published: 22 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72894-0Published: 22 January 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59324-1Published: 08 January 2018
Series ISSN: 1876-0899
Series E-ISSN: 1876-0880
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 384
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applied Ecology, Urban Studies/Sociology, Environmental Management, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Economics, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts