Overview
- Highlights the challenges and future developments of urban human settlements
- Contributors include leading experts from industry, academia and governmental organizations
- Includes up-to-date case studies revealing emerging success stories from the developing world?
Part of the book series: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements (ACHS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Urban Development Trends
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Perspectives in Energy Efficiency and Agriculture Security
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Policy Development and Future Scenarios
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About this book
The answers to the questions of why and how people live where they live as well as how they maintain and integrate with one another are fundamental human settlement issues rooted in history and culture. Human settlements are historically linked to resource availability, fortification, and the mythos of civilizations. Cities play a central role in redefining the interface between human beings and nature. They have revolutionized the human experience by taming natural surroundings and building environments that are human-centric—often narrowing human life outside the experience of wilderness or the untamed. This book is divided into three parts, it examines urban development trends, explores perspectives in energy efficiency and agriculture security, and considers policy development and future scenarios in human-nature relations. It is a compendium of multidisciplinary work that challenges the directions of modernity and offers reference to alternatives. Authors come from a diverse background and international context to address common overarching theories facing current geography-specific problems. An interconnected overtone of the book attempts to link accelerated urbanization and settlement location to how societies are maintained and integrated. Human settlements are shaped by human ecology and the relationship between humans and their interaction with their environment. Two sectors central to human survival are specifically explored: energy and agriculture. Cutting-edge, smart development looks at the latest findings that reflect the on-going debate facing these sectors. A human settlement metric is envisioned in terms of the past, present, and future. This book is a unique attempt to combine a rethinking about human settlements for scientists, policy-makers, public officials, and people committed to improving urban life, society-wide. Possible agents to resolving human settlement problems include international cooperation and various mechanisms that interlacethe international community. Methodological and applied aspects of sustainable management focus on topics such as adaptive knowledge sharing, renewable energy, climate change, agricultural planning, and policy development. An emphasis on scientific and technological advancement, from a bottom-up mapping of society, elucidates a better understanding of the role of knowledgeable societies in which need is considered alongside how such need can be sustained—advancing towards a more promising future.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Settlements
Book Subtitle: Urbanization, Smart Sector Development, and Future Outlook
Editors: Giuseppe T. Cirella
Series Title: Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4031-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-4030-8Published: 10 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-4033-9Published: 10 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-4031-5Published: 08 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2198-2546
Series E-ISSN: 2198-2554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 268
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Sustainable Development, Agricultural Economics, Risk Management, Ecology, Regional/Spatial Science