Overview
- Approaches the theme of urban sustainability from a geographic perspective, applying GIS/RS and mapping visualization techniques
- Presents examples of sustainability practices in everyday life across policy, economics, and culture
- Investigates dynamics of land use change and observed urban form
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Geotechnologies and the Environment (GEOTECH, volume 14)
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Book Title: Urban Sustainability: Policy and Praxis
Editors: Jay D. Gatrell, Ryan R. Jensen, Mark W. Patterson, Nancy Hoalst-Pullen
Series Title: Geotechnologies and the Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26218-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26216-1Published: 17 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79908-7Published: 24 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26218-5Published: 05 March 2016
Series ISSN: 2365-0575
Series E-ISSN: 2365-0583
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 266
Number of Illustrations: 95 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Environmental Geography, Environmental Science and Engineering, Sustainable Development