Preface -- Climate Action Planning -- Creating a Framework for Community Action -- Community Engagement and Collaboration -- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting -- Strategies for Creating Low-Carbon Communities -- Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment -- Strategies for Resilient Communities -- Pathways to Successful Implementation -- Communities Leading the Way -- Time to Take Action -- Appen…
Part I: Product Life Cycle Design and Business Strategy -- EcoDesign of Products and Life Cycles -- Sustainable Consumption -- Business Innovation -- Part II: Technologies for the Future and Sustainability -- From Big Data to Smart Data -- Cyber-Physical Systems -- Environmental Effects of Latest Technology Trends -- Part III: Social Perspectives in EcoDesign -- Social Vision and Scenarios for…
"A plea for a renewed commitment to authentic urbanism and an invitation to learn from history as our cities enter a future of unprecedented change." Alex Steffen, author of "Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities that Can Save the Planet" "One of Chuck Wolfe's great gifts is an extraordinary photographer's eye for capturing visual images of everyday, but evocative, city life. Another is an uncommonly s…
Introduction -- Atmospheric Changes and Observations -- Atmospheric Changes and Observations -- GNSS Ionospheric Sounding -- Detection methods for ionospheric disturbances -- Seismic lower-atmospheric anomalies -- Pre-seismic Ionospheric Anomalies -- Co-/Post-seismic Ionospheric Disturbances -- Two-mode seismo-ionospheric disturbances -- Seismo-ionospheric Rayleigh waves -- Epicenter from Ionos…
Sustainability Concept in Developing Countries -- Urbanism and Sustainability concept -- Energy & Sustainability Concept.This edited volume consists of three parts. It is a culmination of selected research papers presented at the second version of the international conference on Improving Sustainability Concept in Developing Countries (ISCDC) and the second version of the international conferen…
Computational Planning and Management for Smart Cities: An Introduction -- Sejong Smart City: on the Road to be a City of the Future -- Data Protection Law and City Planning: Role of Open Data in Climate Resilience and Governance of National Capital Territory of Delhi, India -- Exploring Shared-Bike Travel Patterns Using Big Data: Evidence in Chicago and Budapest -- Can Social Media Play a Role…
1.Development and Application of Water-saving and Moisture-retaining Membrane Made from Controllable High Polymer Materials for Concrete Curing -- 2.Characteristics of excavation-induced deformation associated with different propped retaining walls in soft soil -- 3.Slope Stability Analysis of the Embankment Filled with River Sand and Weathered Mudstone Rock -- 4.Investigating Effects of Indivi…
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Precarity -- Chapter 3: Propinquity -- Chapter 4: Conflict -- Chapter 5: Serendipity -- Chapter 6: Fear -- Chapter 7: The Urban Commons.Increasingly, we live in an environment of our own making: a ‘world as design’ over the natural world. For more than half of the global population, this environment is also thoroughly urban. But what does a global urban…
The concept and practice of Smart Metropolitan Regional Development -- Metropolitan Region of Abuja, the New Capital of Nigeria -- Surat Metropolitan Region Gujarat, India -- Kozhikode Metropolitan Region, Kerala, India -- National Capital Metropolitan Region Delhi, India -- Metropolitan Region of Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa -- Metropolitan Region Naples, Italy -- Metropolitan Region of Chan…
Section 1 Problems of SUITMA diagnostic and classification -- Section 2 Spatial temporal variability of urban soils features and processes -- Section 3 Urban soils' functions and ecosystem services: from concepts to application -- Section 4 Bioremediation and reclamation of soils contaminated with oil products, heavy metals and radionuclide -- Section 5 Genesis, geography, soil features and pro…