Editors:
- Draws comprehensively upon concepts and international case studies that will assist in sound peri-urban planning
- Presents a distinct synthesis of a range of disciplines, including hydrology, peri-urban agriculture, social, economic, legal, institutional and policy aspects
- Contains a rich resource of unpublished data, examples and illustrations
- Provides a unique reference to tackle future urbanisation issues and challenges of interest to a wide audience of researchers, planners, consultants and students
Part of the book series: Water Science and Technology Library (WSTL, volume 72)
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Table of contents (35 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Peri-Urbansation
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Front Matter
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Peri-Urban Culture and Socio-economy
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Front Matter
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Peri-Urban Landuse Planning
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About this book
This book provides a unique synthesis of concepts and tools to examine natural resource, socio-economic, legal, policy and institutional issues that are important for managing urban growth into the future. The book will particularly help the reader to understand the current issues and challenges and develop strategies and practices to cope with future pressures of urbanisation and peri-urban land, water and energy use challenges. In particular, the book will help the reader to discover underlying principles for the planning of future cities and peri-urban regions in relation to: (i) Balanced urban development policies and institutions for future cities; (ii) Understanding the effects of land use change, population increase, and water demand on the liveability of cities; (iii) Long-term planning needs and transdisciplinary approaches to ensure the secured future for generations ahead; and (iv) Strategies to adapt the cities and land, water and energy uses for viable and liveable cities.
There are growing concerns about water, food security and sustainability with increased urbanisation worldwide. For cities to be liveable and sustainable into the future there is a need to maintain the natural resource base and the ecosystem services in the peri-urban areas surrounding cities. This need is increasing under the looming spectre of global warming and climate change.
This book will be of interest to policy makers, urban planners, researchers, post-graduate students in urban planning, environmental and water resources management, and managers in municipal councils.
Keywords
- City Water Use
- Energy Footprint and Urban Development policy
- Institutional Issues and Food, Water and Energy Security
- Land and Water Use Planning
- Liveability and Urban Development
- Resource Use Cities
- Sustainable Cities Planning
- Urban Development and Sustainability
- landscape/regional and urban planning
- water policy
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Science and Health, Western Sydney University, Penrith, Australia
Basant Maheshwari
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Institute of Technology, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Bhadranie Thoradeniya
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Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Texas A & M University, College Station, USA
Vijay P. Singh
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities
Editors: Basant Maheshwari, Bhadranie Thoradeniya, Vijay P. Singh
Series Title: Water Science and Technology Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28112-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28110-0Published: 07 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80275-6Published: 09 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28112-4Published: 29 August 2016
Series ISSN: 0921-092X
Series E-ISSN: 1872-4663
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 601
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 109 illustrations in colour
Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Hydrology/Water Resources, Sustainable Development, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Landscape Ecology