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Cover -- Sustainable Development -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Section 1: Sustainable assessment and indicators -- Implementation of new spatial tools for integrated urban development plans in small and medium cities -- Cu Lao Cham Biosphere Reserve sustainability project in Vietnam:corporate framework for sustainable development management -- Urban sustainability and individual behaviour -- An assessment plan for lean and green sustainability practices in the supply chain of hotels -- Sustainability assessment in the built environment of Lake Mariout, Alexandria city, Egypt: factors and a decision framework -- Regional sustainable development assessment for an air quality index system: a case study of the Macau Special Administration Region -- Contemporary development and sustainability indicatorsat the Royal Commission of Yanbu -- Methodology towards defining multi-scalar attributes of sustainability indicators in historical urban areas: assessment tool development -- Section 2: Regional planning -- Integrated territorial investments: challenges and opportunities - case study of Romania -- Peri-urban dynamics and land-use planning for the Greater Cairo Region in Egypt -- Bicentric conurbation and its territorial development -- Section 3: Sustainability and the built environment -- Green property management for commercial buildings -- Policies for promoting green buildings at the local level: a case study of Ningbo, China -- Forecasting office rentals in Gaborone in the short and long term -- "Taking the pulse" of doctors and nurses to reduce pharmaceutical residues in the water cycle: a ground-breaking survey and its educational implications -- Preliminary study on the estimation of urban embodied emissions using case-based reasoning -- Section 4: Energy and the environment

The contents of the book reflect that interdisciplinary approach, and include the following topics: Sustainable Development and Planning; Energy and Sustainability; Food and Environment; Water Resources Issues; Sustainable Tourism; and Waste Management and Soil Recovery

As in the past, future forest fire scenarios are impacted by climatic trends and changes in climatic extremes, as well as by anthropic pressure. It is to be expected that future trends, especially in the Mediterranean regions, will certainly lead to an increasing impact of human pressure on the natural environment, due to increases in tourism and to the enlargement of urban residential areas invading the countryside.Forecasting the effects of both factors (climatic and anthropic) and separating their effects on forest fires frequencies may be particularly difficult, but is essential to improve our knowledge of forest fire occurrence probability and to better organize prevention and fighting activities. At the same time, estimation of the possible increase of fire risk over coming years is important, taking into account also the diverse fire prone environments present in the Mediterranean as well as many other areas (mountain slopes, coastal zones, large islands, etc).This book contains peer-reviewed papers presented at the Second International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Forest Fires held in Kos, Greece, in 2010. The papers covered important topics in the field of prevention and fighting of forest fires, including: Computational Methods and Experiments; Air Quality and Health Risk Models; Detection, Monitoring and Response Systems; Decision Support Systems; Resource Optimization; Risk Assessment and Vulnerability Assessment

Current global socio-economic trends call attention to the endangered conditions of relatively confined environments all over the world. Many of these regions face problems of depopulation and lack of adequate infrastructures. The problems are aggravated for the case of islands, which have limited resources and few possibilities of developing different types of supporting infrastructures.Many islands depend on tourism for their economic survival. Most of them however, cannot provide all the resources required to maintain a large seasonal population and in many cases basic requirements such as water and energy, as well as agricultural produce, need to be imported. The impact of large seasonal population increases in the community and the resulting socio-economic factors need to be carefully evaluated, as well as issues related to transportation and communication, all of which should be part of an overall strategy.Of primary importance in many cases is to ensure all year round economic activities in order to achieve a permanent and completely sustainable use of the islands' potential.This book contains papers dealing with projects, initiatives and experiences related to different island issues. By using the experience of economically developed island environments, it is possible to learn how to ensure the development of other island communities, not only to prevent depopulation but to encourage new settlement. Those projects will serve as guidelines for other initiatives in less developed islands, adapting those experiences to specific regional, cultural and socio-economic characteristics

Recently, there has been a disturbing increase in the number of natural disasters affecting millions of people, destroying property and resulting in loss of human life. These events include major flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes and many others. Today the world faces unparalleled threats from human-made disasters that can be attributed to failure of industrial and energy installations as well as to terrorism. Added to this is the unparalleled threat of emerging and re-emerging diseases, with scientists predicting events such as an influenza pandemic. This volume contains papers from the First International Conference on Disaster Management and Human Health Risk: Reducing Risk, Improving Outcomes, covering the following topics: Emergency preparedness and risk mitigation; Natural disasters; Analysis, monitoring and mitigation of natural and man-made disasters

Cover -- The Sustainable City VII: Urban Regeneration and Sustainability -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Prigogine Medal 2012 -- Contents -- Section 1: Urban strategies -- Urban sustainability: resilient regions, sustainable sprawl and green infrastructure -- Overcoming unsustainability: retrofitting American suburbs with high-density built environment -- Desire Lines: determining pathways through the city -- Post-industrial urban strategies -- In search of new paradigms to interpret and design the contemporary city -- A multi-scale, morphological interpretation of the sustainable city -- An urban growth model for strategic urban planning on a regional level: a proposed model prototype for Greater Cairo in the year 2050 -- Urbanizing the deserts of Dubai: an outdoor thermal comfort case study of Dubai International Academic City, UAE -- Urban complexity, scale hierarchy, energy efficiency and economic value creation -- Eco-city indicators: governance challenges -- A comparative study of DGNB, LEED and BREEAM certificate systems in urban sustainability -- High density suburbs redevelopment and social housing retrofitting for cities regeneration -- RE-URB/ARCH: urban and architectonic regeneration strategies: sustainability models -- Land use change and environmental sustainability: the case of Lagos metropolis -- Functional recovery in an urban industrial area - methods and tools to integrate efficiency and sustainability in the pre-design phase -- Integrative cities: when art and architecture become strategic -- Section 2: Eco-town planning -- Urban entropy vs sustainability: a new town planning perspective -- Energy assessment in town planning: urban energy maps -- Environmental sustainability and urban densification -- Shopping mall crisis and a new perspective in the framework of the polycentric multiuse metropolitan model

This book contains papers presented at The Sustainable City 2010 conference, which was the sixth edition of the International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. That event followed the very successful meetings held previously in Rio (2000), Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006) and Skiathos (2008) and proved one more time the necessity of this scientific forum to discuss the challenging situations that the urban areas are confronting nowadays.Innovative tools are required for understanding the high complexity of contemporary cities. It is urgent to promote a more scientific approach to urban studies, inspired by Prigogine's dissipative structures, and to highlight relations between different systems and between systems and the environment.This series of conferences addresses the multidisciplinary aspects of urban planning, a result of the increasing size of the cities, the amount of resources and services required and the complexity of modern society

One-third of the annual natural disasters and economic losses, and more than half of the associated victims are flood related. A burgeoning global population and growing wealth, particularly in the last two or three decades, have increased the risk and the demand for flood protection. These features, together with climate change predictions and urban development, are affecting the way flood risk is managed. Knowledge and scientific tools play a role of paramount importance in the strain of coping with flooding problems, along with capacity building in the context of political and administrative frameworks. Therefore, governments need to establish clear institutional, financial and social mechanisms and processes for flood risk management in order to ensure the safety of people and property and, thereby, contribute to flood defence, prevention and recovery. This volume contains papers presented at the second International Conference on Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response. The conference provides a forum for researchers, academics and practitioners actively involved in improving and interchanging knowledge and expertise in a wide range of technical and management issues related to flooding and its devastating effects. The scientific topics presented at the conference on Flood Recovery Innovation and Response 2010 included: Flood Risk Analysis; Flood Risk Management; Urban Flood Management; Flood Forecasting; Risk Assessment and Decision Making; Flood Case Studies; Community Resilience to Flooding