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Urban ecology (Sociology). --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Economic geography --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Sociology, Urban --- Environmental aspects --- Urban ecology.
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Social ecology --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Human ecology
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Urban ecology (Sociology) --- City Planning --- Sustainable development
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Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Communicable diseases --- Epidemics
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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.
Urban ecology --- Belgium --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urbanisme durable. --- Urbanisme --- Eco-quartiers.
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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"--
Municipal water supply --- Water-supply --- Water demand management --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Urban ecology (Sociology)
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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.
Environmental planning --- Human ecology. Social biology --- Greenways. --- Landscape ecology. --- Landscape protection. --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Urban ecology. --- Geografie --- Landschapskunde --- Ecologie. --- Urban ecology (Sociology). --- Greenways --- Landscape ecology --- Landscape protection
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Urban animals --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Faune urbaine --- Ecologie urbaine --- History --- Histoire --- Urban ecology (Biology) --- Urban animals. --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- History. --- Urban animals - History
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Urban animals --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Faune urbaine --- Ecologie urbaine
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Biotic communities --- Ecology --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Geochemistry --- Life sciences
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