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Ecologically-Compatible Urban Planning : Designing a Healthier Environment.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Emerald Points SeriesPublisher: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (185 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781789737851
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ecologically-Compatible Urban PlanningDDC classification:
  • 307.1216
LOC classification:
  • HT165.5-169.9
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- ECOLOGICALLY-COMPATIBLE URBAN PLANNING -- ECOLOGICALLY-COMPATIBLE URBAN PLANNING: Designing a Healthier Environment -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A NOTE FROM STEFANO SALATA -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- 1: Planning in the Contemporary City: Do Urban Plans Still Matter? -- Introduction -- 1. The Contemporary City -- 1.1 Climate Change and Resilience -- 1.1.1 What Is Resilience? -- 1.2 Ecosystem Service Drives Change -- 2. Towards the Paradigm of 'Eco-systemic Planning' -- 2.1 Ecosystem Services for Urban Planning -- 2.1.1 The Crucial Role of Mapping -- 2.2 Ecosystem Services for Green Infrastructures -- 3. Eco-systemic Planning Reform -- 3.1 Ecology as a Cultural Mainstream -- 3.2 Methodology -- 3.2.1 Reducing the Variables -- 3.2.2 Data Interpretation -- 3.3 An Agenda for Urban Planning -- 2: Acquiring New Competencies -- Introduction -- 4. Ecosystem Service Mapping in Land Use Plans: Modelling with InVEST -- 4.1 On Mapping Tools and Their Possible Utilisation -- 4.2 Introduction to Modelling -- 4.2.1 Mapping the Ecosystem Services -- 4.3 From ES Maps to Green Infrastructures Design -- 4.3.1 From Multipart Data to Network Design -- 4.3.2 Weighted Overlay Tool -- 4.3.3 Hotspot Analysis -- 4.3.4 Aggregate Polygons -- 4.3.5 Results -- 4.3.6 Conclusion -- 4.4 The Effect of ES Degradation on Health -- 4.4.1 Fatalities Caused by Atmospheric Pollution -- 3: Case Studies -- 5. Case Study One -- 5.1 Mapping Air Quality in Urban Areas -- 5.1.1 PM Concentration in the Milan Area -- 5.1.2 Synthesis of the First Methodological Implementation -- 5.2 Ecosystem Service Planning for Human Health -- 5.2.1 Towards Methodological Coherence -- 5.2.2 Air Quality and Well-being: What Should We Do? -- 6. Case Study Two: Resilience Is Not Sustainability4 -- 6.1 Sustainability vs Resilience.
6.1.1 Sustainability, Resilience and Urban Ecosystem Services -- 6.1.2 An Empirical Experiment -- 6.1.3 An ES Indicator of Sustainability -- 6.1.4 An ES Indicator of Resilience -- 7. General Conclusions -- 7.1 Who Is Responsible? -- 7.2 What Can We Do? -- 7.3 Action! -- 7.4 Some Final (Banal) Thoughts -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
Summary: By providing an in-depth analysis of contemporary urbanization, an understanding of the dimension of the phenomena and its cause-effect mechanism, this book maps how ecologically-compatible planning in the contemporary city may successfully design a healthier environment.
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Cover -- ECOLOGICALLY-COMPATIBLE URBAN PLANNING -- ECOLOGICALLY-COMPATIBLE URBAN PLANNING: Designing a Healthier Environment -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A NOTE FROM STEFANO SALATA -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION -- 1: Planning in the Contemporary City: Do Urban Plans Still Matter? -- Introduction -- 1. The Contemporary City -- 1.1 Climate Change and Resilience -- 1.1.1 What Is Resilience? -- 1.2 Ecosystem Service Drives Change -- 2. Towards the Paradigm of 'Eco-systemic Planning' -- 2.1 Ecosystem Services for Urban Planning -- 2.1.1 The Crucial Role of Mapping -- 2.2 Ecosystem Services for Green Infrastructures -- 3. Eco-systemic Planning Reform -- 3.1 Ecology as a Cultural Mainstream -- 3.2 Methodology -- 3.2.1 Reducing the Variables -- 3.2.2 Data Interpretation -- 3.3 An Agenda for Urban Planning -- 2: Acquiring New Competencies -- Introduction -- 4. Ecosystem Service Mapping in Land Use Plans: Modelling with InVEST -- 4.1 On Mapping Tools and Their Possible Utilisation -- 4.2 Introduction to Modelling -- 4.2.1 Mapping the Ecosystem Services -- 4.3 From ES Maps to Green Infrastructures Design -- 4.3.1 From Multipart Data to Network Design -- 4.3.2 Weighted Overlay Tool -- 4.3.3 Hotspot Analysis -- 4.3.4 Aggregate Polygons -- 4.3.5 Results -- 4.3.6 Conclusion -- 4.4 The Effect of ES Degradation on Health -- 4.4.1 Fatalities Caused by Atmospheric Pollution -- 3: Case Studies -- 5. Case Study One -- 5.1 Mapping Air Quality in Urban Areas -- 5.1.1 PM Concentration in the Milan Area -- 5.1.2 Synthesis of the First Methodological Implementation -- 5.2 Ecosystem Service Planning for Human Health -- 5.2.1 Towards Methodological Coherence -- 5.2.2 Air Quality and Well-being: What Should We Do? -- 6. Case Study Two: Resilience Is Not Sustainability4 -- 6.1 Sustainability vs Resilience.

6.1.1 Sustainability, Resilience and Urban Ecosystem Services -- 6.1.2 An Empirical Experiment -- 6.1.3 An ES Indicator of Sustainability -- 6.1.4 An ES Indicator of Resilience -- 7. General Conclusions -- 7.1 Who Is Responsible? -- 7.2 What Can We Do? -- 7.3 Action! -- 7.4 Some Final (Banal) Thoughts -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

By providing an in-depth analysis of contemporary urbanization, an understanding of the dimension of the phenomena and its cause-effect mechanism, this book maps how ecologically-compatible planning in the contemporary city may successfully design a healthier environment.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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