Balanced Urban Development: Options And Strategies For Liveable Cities

ISBN: 9783319281100 出版年：2016 页码：342 Maheshwari, Basant Singh, Vijay P Springer

This book provides a unique synthesis of concepts and tools to examine natural resource, socio-economic, legal, policy and institutional issues that are important for managing urban growth into the future. The book will particularly help the reader to understand the current issues and challenges and develop strategies and practices to cope with future pressures of urbanisation and peri-urban land, water and energy use challenges. In particular, the book will help the reader to discover underlying principles for the planning of future cities and peri-urban regions in relation to: (i) balanced urban development policies and institutions for future cities; (ii) understanding the effects of land use change, population increase, and water demand on the liveability of cities; (iii) long-term planning needs and transdisciplinary approaches to ensure the secured future for generations ahead; and (iv) strategies to adapt the cities and land, water and energy uses for viable and liveable cities.There are growing concerns about water, food security and sustainability with increased urbanisation worldwide.