The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to guide them in selecting the appropriate assessment methods for a variety of evaluations. This book provides case studies drawn from locations across Europe, and also provides best practice examples demonstrating those protocols that planners, property developers and design and construction professionals have followed, and how they have selected the assessment methods they need to best evaluate the sustainability of cities, districts, neighbourhoods and buildings.

City, Urban Transformation and the Right to the City Senem Zeybekoglu Sadri, Dr. 1-10 PDF HTML Street Furniture Influence in Revitalizing the Bahraini Identity Islam Hamdi El-Ghonaimy, Dr. 11-20 PDF HTML A Research on Urban Identity: Sample of Kadikoy District Begüm Erçevik Sönmez, Dr. 21-32 PDF HTML Mitigating Environmental Sustainability Challenges and Enhancing Health in Urban Communities: The Multi-functionality of Green Infrastructure Adedotun Ayodele Dipeolu, Dr., Onoja Matthew Akpa, Dr., Akinlabi Joseph Fadamiro, Dr. 33-46 PDF HTML Socio-Psychological Effects of Urban Green Areas: Case of Kirklareli City Center Ezgi Tok, Dr., Merve Guroglu Agdas, M.Sc, Mete Korhan Ozkok, M.Sc, Azem Kuru, M.Sc 47-60 PDF HTML Automobile Trips to School and Safety Perspectives of Unplanned Lokoja Metropolis in North Central Nigeria Musilimu Adeyinka ADETUNJI, Dr. 61-70 PDF HTML Why isn’t urban development sustainable? An institutional approach to the case of Athens, Greece Antonios Tsiligiannis, M.Sc. 71-78 PDF HTML Towards A Post-Traumatic Urban Design That Heals Cities’ Inhabitants Suffering From PTSD Maria A EL HELOU, PhD candidate 79-90 PDF HTML

In this book, the second of a three-volume series, leading authorities on the methodology of environmental assessment provide a unique insight into questions of critical importance to sustainable urban development. Using the framework and protocols set out in Volume 1, Volume 2 examines how well the environmental assessment methods evaluate the ecological integrity of urban development and equity of the resulting resource distribution. The examination focuses on: the instruments of environmental assessment approaches to environmental assessment based in systems-thinking methods for environmental, economic and social assessments their use in evaluating the sustainability of urban development. The Sustainable Urban Development Series contains the research and debate of the BEQUEST (Building, Environmental Quality Evaluation for Sustainability) network funded by the European Commission. Together the books provide a framework, set of protocols, environmental assessment methods and toolkit for policy makers, academics, professionals and advanced level students in urban planning and studies, as well as other areas of the built environment.

Welfare Economics and Sustainable Development theme is a component of Encyclopedia of Development and Economic Sciences in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. This theme introduces welfare economics and sustainable development in four topics dealing with four important issues to be considered in implementing sustainable development. These are: the use of ethics and discounting and economic growth models in balancing the interests of future generations against those of the present; the advantages and limitations of national accounting methodologies as means of evaluating sustainability; the international dimensions of sustainable development arising out of environmental and economic linkages among nations; and the nature of institutions required to promote sustainable development. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.

Future Challenges in Sustainable Development within the Built Environment stimulates and reinterprets the demands of Responsible and Sustainable Development in the Built Environment for future action and development. It examines the methods of evaluation, the use of technology, the creation of new models and the role of human factors for examining and developing the subject over the next twenty years.

The present compendium of 26 papers relates to conceptual and empirical case studies from India and other Asian countries. It also combines an academic understanding with an empirical case studies from India and other Asian countries.