Overview
- Takes complex adaptive systems from theory to practice
- Delivers insights in resilient cities applicable globally
- Establishes coupled natural urban systems as a tool for research and design
Part of the book series: Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands (SESGI)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Galapagos as a Living Laboratory
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Models of Change
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative understanding of evolving settlement and habitation.
The Galapagos islands are one of the world’s most examined and reported examples of a series of naturally evolving ecosystems. The biodiversity of these island ecosystems are the focus of tourism and the image across the world yet human settlement are part of the local ecology. While human intervention is limited, the islands are a distinctive context in which to consider the impact of human habitation as a part of our ecosystems.
In this book, authors take the framework of complex adaptive systems (CAS) in which to model systems that grow and evolve, the relations between these various sectors change; systems that get more complex as they evolve. Testedand applied discretely in the two realms of natural and urban, for the first time this text will bring the two together in understanding options for the future of urban settlements on the Galapagos Islands and, by extension, consider how the approach can be used globally in other contexts.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor Tom Kvan is Pro Vice Chancellor (Campus and Global Developments) in which role he provides leadership in the alignment of academic and research strategies with opportunities for campus developments and has particular responsibilities for partnerships in the Middle East and Africa.
Tom has many years in senior leadership roles in three universities, most recently serving from 2007 – 2015 as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning in Melbourne during which time he led the establishment of the Melbourne School of Design and delivered an award winning building to host the graduate school. He was Professor and Dean at the University from Hong Kong, being a member of HKU from 1993-2005.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Galapagos
Book Subtitle: Transition to Sustainability in Complex Adaptive Systems
Editors: Thomas Kvan, Justyna Karakiewicz
Series Title: Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99534-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99533-5Published: 20 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99534-2Published: 09 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2195-1055
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1063
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 163
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Ecology, Ecosystems, Nature Conservation