Overview
- Addresses current and future challenges in "green" urban development
- Provides recommendations for practitioners, decision-makers and stakeholders
- Contains many illustrating case studies and best practice examples from China and Germany
- Aims at a long-term appreciation of the potentials and increased consideration of urban green spaces in city planning and development
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Cities and Nature (CITIES)
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About this book
The book aims to capture, describe and convey the current significance, the values and potentials of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services to scientists and professionals in the context of sustainable urban development and ongoing urbanization processes. Current developments, different approaches and future challenges in the competition of green spaces and urban land consumption in China and Germany are elaborated, discussed and illustrated within case studies and good practice examples. The strategic goal is a long-term appreciation of the potentials and increased consideration of urban green spaces in city planning and development.
This book provides tangible recommendations for urban planners, politicians and stakeholders in the fields of green infrastructure at the interface of environment and urban landscape.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Towards Green Cities
Book Subtitle: Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in China and Germany
Editors: Karsten Grunewald, Junxiang Li, Gaodi Xie, Lennart Kümper-Schlake
Series Title: Cities and Nature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58223-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58222-1Published: 16 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86353-5Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58223-8Published: 05 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2520-8306
Series E-ISSN: 2520-8314
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 197
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Ecology, Sustainable Development, Urban Studies/Sociology