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The urban environment
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ISBN: 0713163925 9780713163926 Year: 1983 Publisher: London Arnold


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Quelles natures voulons-nous ? : pour une approche socio-écologique du champ de l'environnement
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ISBN: 9782842994549 284299454X Year: 2003 Publisher: Paris : Elsevier,

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Resilient cities : responding to peak oil and climate change
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ISBN: 9781597264990 1597264997 9781597264983 1597264989 Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington (DC): Island press,

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Pandemic urbanism : infectious diseases on a planet of cities
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ISBN: 9781509549832 1509549846 1509549838 9781509549849 Year: 2023 Publisher: [Cambridge]: Polity,

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De l'écoquartier à la ville durable
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ISBN: 9782804700928 2804700925 Year: 2011 Volume: 78 Publisher: Bruxelles : Namur : Éd. Mardaga ;, Direction générale opérationnnelle de l'aménagement du territoire, du logmement, du patrimoine et de l'énergie du Service public de Wallonie,.

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En matière d’urbanisme, les écoquartiers, aussi appelés quartiers durables, ont actuellement le vent en poupe, portés par le souci d’améliorer les performances énergétiques et, de manière plus générale, de réduire notre empreinte écologique. Ils cristallisent un grand intérêt tant auprès des professionnels que des autorités et du grand public, ce dont on ne peut que se réjouir. Cependant, malgré l’expertise accumulée par certains pays voisins – notamment l’Allemagne, la Suisse, l’Autriche et les pays scandinaves – le terme « écoquartier » ne possède toujours pas de définition précise en Wallonie. En conséquence, le terme est souvent galvaudé et de nombreux projets urbanistiques s’attribuent d’office cette étiquette, surfant sur le succès de ce concept. C’est ainsi par exemple que certains projets de lotissements traditionnels qui se distinguent uniquement par des habitations économes en énergie, peuvent se vendre comme des écoquartiers, ce terme devenant alors simplement un argument de marketing. À terme, cette situation est préjudiciable aux principes du développement durable et engendre une confusion certaine auprès du grand public. La Wallonie a souhaité remédier à cette situation en s’engageant dans la mise en oeuvre d’un véritable urbanisme durable.


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The water sensitive city
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ISBN: 9781118897669 1118897668 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chichester: Wiley,

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"This book advocates a more thoughtful approach to urban water management, including for example, exponents of the Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) approach in Australia and Low Impact Development in the US. This new approach involves reducing water consumption, harvesting rainwater, recycling rainwater and adopting Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) where surface water is not sent straight to drains but is intercepted by features like green roofs, rain gardens, swales and ponds. This water sensitive approach conserves water, reduces flooding, cleans water (and therefore streams, rivers and seas). It is compatible with the greener city and green infrastructure agendas, whereby policy makers want to make cities more liveable. This subject matters because the current use of water by cities is unsustainable. Cities in particular need to change the existing linear model of water consumption and use to a more circular one in order to survive. Aquifers all over the world, including some that have taken millions of years to form, are predicted to dry up in the coming decades. Reservoirs, eg Lake Mead near Las Vegas once believed to have permanently solved water supply problems, are falling to dangerously low levels. This book is needed in order to bring together the various specialised technical discussions that have been continuing for some time into a volume that is more accessible to designers (engineers and architects), urban planners and managers, and policymakers. People need to understand that urban water management should increasingly become their concerns rather than a technical matter to be addressed by specialists alone"--

Ecological networks and greenways : concept, design, implementation
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ISBN: 0521535026 9780521535021 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The establishment of ecological networks in Europe and greenways in America has required some of the most advanced applications of the principles of landscape ecology to land use planning. This book provides a thorough overview of recent developments in this emerging field, combining theoretical concepts of landscape ecology with the actual practice of landscape planning and management. In addition to biological and physical considerations important to biodiversity protection and restoration, equal weight is given to cultural and aesthetic issues to illustrate how sympathetic, sustainable land use policies can be implemented. Examples are given for large scale areas (Estonia and Florida) as well as regional areas such as Milano, Chicago and the Argentinian Yungas. This invaluable book will provide a wealth of information for all those concerned with biodiversity conservation through networks and greenways and their relevance to the planning process, whether researcher, land manager or policy maker.


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Animal cities : beastly urban histories
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ISBN: 9781409446552 9781409446569 9781315567167 9781317180838 9781317180845 9781138247031 1409446557 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Les animaux et la ville
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ISBN: 2738108954 9782738108951 Year: 2000 Publisher: Paris : Editions Odile Jacob,

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Ecological systems : selected entries from the Encyclopedia of sustainability science and technology
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ISBN: 1461457548 9781461457541 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Springer,

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