Overview
- Describes environmental, social and economic aspects of sustainable cities
- Raises new topics to be considered in the sustainability of natural resources as organic food and ecopharmaco vigilance
- Contextualizes the UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 (Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sustainability, Cities, and Sustainable Cities
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Social Sustainability in Cities
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Environmental Sustainability in Cities
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About this book
Nowadays, researchers, students, and stakeholders are highly involved in sustainability issues. Because of this, they need a guiding document to help them develop and implement sustainability programs at the level of companies and institutions.
In this book, the authors discuss and explain basic concepts of sustainability-related to social, economic and environmental aspects, as well as strategies for its implementation.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marc A. Rosen is a Professor at University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. He is Editor-in-Chief of various journals and Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in energy technology, sustainable energy and the environmental impact of energy systems.
Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales is a Researcher in Sustainability area, and a Pharmacist at Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana. Her research is in Bio-business, Audit, Environmental Management, Import-Export Management, which is linked to the ancestral knowledge of medicinal plants in the jungle regarding their traditional uses.
Dora Marinova is a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Panel on Centres of Research Excellence in Population Health. Her research interests cover innovation models, including the evolving global green system of innovation and the emerging area of sustainometrics. Dora is Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Education Economics and Development (published by Inderscience, Switzerland) and Transformations: An Interdisciplinary Journal (published by EBSCO, USA).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building Sustainable Cities
Book Subtitle: Social, Economic and Environmental Factors
Editors: Aldo Alvarez-Risco, Marc A. Rosen, Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Dora Marinova
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45533-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45532-3Published: 05 September 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45535-4Published: 06 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45533-0Published: 04 September 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 349
Number of Illustrations: 65 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Economics, Natural Resource and Energy Economics, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings