Urban Sustainability: Policy and Praxis

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Urban Sustainability: Perspectives on Change

   • Jay D. Gatrell, Mark W. Patterson

   Pages 1-3

3. Urban Stream Management Using Spatial Approaches for Stream Clean-Up Data

   • Patrick Lawrence

   Pages 5-21

4. Ecosystem Services Assessment from the Mountain to the Sea: In Search of a Method for Land- and Seascape Planning

   • Michelle E. Portman, Yarden Elhanan

   Pages 23-41

5. Best Practices for Urban Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data Acquisition and Processing

   • Vijay Lulla, Ryan R. Jensen

   Pages 43-54

6. Thermal Neighborhoods, Socioeconomic Characteristics, and Urban Quality of Life: Examining Humanity’s Principal Habitat

   • Ryan R. Jensen, Perry J. Hardin

   Pages 55-64

7. Sustainability, Greenspace and Nature Deficit in Las Vegas, Nevada

   • Daniel D. McLean, Ryan R. Jensen, Elizabeth Barrie

   Pages 65-75

8. Social Networks, Strategic Doing, and Sustainable Management of Local Food Systems

   • Neil Reid

   Pages 77-98

9. Poverty, Sustainability, & Metal Recycling: Geovisualizing the Case of Scrapping as a Sustainable Urban Industry in Detroit

   • Michael L. Chohaney, Charles D. Yeager, Jay D. Gatrell, David J. Nemeth

   Pages 99-133

10. Where Are the Garden(er)s? Examining Gardener Motivations and Community Garden Participation-Sheds in Austin, Texas

    • Ronald R. Hagelman III, Gregory S. Mast, Colleen C. Hiner

    Pages 135-152

11. Sustainability Attitudes and Actions: An Examination of Craft Brewers in the United States

    • Mark W. Patterson, Nancy Hoalst-Pullen, W. Blake Pierson

    Pages 153-168

12. Food Hubs: Connecting Farms with Local and Regional Markets

    • LaDona Knigge, Jacob N. Brimlow, Sara S. Metcalf

    Pages 169-184

13. Is Urban Sustainability Possible in Post-Katrina New Orleans?

    • Wendy A. Lascell

    Pages 185-199

14. Mapping Environmental Justice: A Framework for Understanding Sustainability at the Neighborhood Scale in Indianapolis

    • Trevor K. Fuller

    Pages 201-215

15. Unmanned Systems and Managing from Above: The Practical Implications of UAVs for Research Applications Addressing Urban Sustainability

    • Karen Gallagher, Patrick Lawrence

    Pages 217-232

16. Urban Greening as a Social Movement

    • Sara S. Metcalf, Erika S. Svendsen, LaDona Knigge, Hua Wang, Harvey D. Palmer, Mary E. Northridge

    Pages 233-248

17. Decision Making and Sustainability in Built Environments

    • Michael J. Clay, Jenna N. Albers

    Pages 249-264

18. Geotechnologies & Sustainable Urban Environments

    • Ryan R. Jensen

    Pages 265-266

This book explores the environmental, economic, and socio-political dynamics of sustainability from a geographic perspective. The chapters unite the often disparate worlds of environment, economics, and politics by seeking to understand and visualize a range of sustainability practices on the ground and in place. In concert, the book provides an overview of a range of geotechnical applications associated with environmental change (water resources, land use & land cover change); as well as investigates more nuanced and novel examples of local economic development in cities. The diverse collection maps local practices from urban farming to evolving and thriving industries such as metal scrapping and craft beer. Additionally, the book provides an integrated geo-technical framework for understanding and assessing ecosystem services, explores the deployment of unmanned systems to understand urban environmental change, interrogates the spatial politics of urban green movements, examines theimplications of revised planning practices, and investigates environmental justice. The book will be of interest to researchers, students, and anyone seeking to better understand sustainability at multiple scales in urban environments.

• GIS
• Gqeotechnologies
• Sustainability Pillars
• Urban Greening
• Urban Management
• Urban Morphology
• Urban Sustainability
• urban geography and urbanism
• Environmental Geography

• School of Environmental Studies, Bellarmine University, Louisville, USA

  Jay D. Gatrell

• Department of Geography, Brigham Young University, Provo, USA

  Ryan R. Jensen

• Department of Geography and Anthropology, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, USA

  Mark W. Patterson

• Dept. Geography & Anthropology, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, USA

  Nancy Hoalst-Pullen

Policies and ethics