[Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements] Sustainable Human–Nature Relations (Environmental Scholarship, Economic Evaluation, Urban Strategies) ||

This book addresses sustainability thinking and the bigger picture, by taking into consideration how and from where contemporary schools of thought emerged approximately a quarter-century ago. Evidence from the literature illustrates a number of key concepts and techniques that have been tested and continue to be tested, within various multi-disciplinary fields, on societal functionality. Research into sustainable societies needs to be sound, ethical, and creative. A cross-sectoral, interdisciplinary examination of challenges and strategies is used to interlink sustainability thinking and human-nature relations. With an ever-growing number of people now concentrated within urban areas, providing not only environmental quality and livable space, but also security and resilient urban systems, is becoming increasingly important. This urbanization trend has overlapped with environmental degradation, consumption of natural resources, habitat loss, and overall ecosystem change. Consequently, the goal is for cleaner, safer societies – with higher standards of living – to excel in support of current and future generational communities. The book tackles these challenges by integrating environmental scholarship, economic evaluation, and urban strategies under one umbrella of thought. The relational paradigms presented include examples that correlate developed and developing countries, socioeconomics and community development, and governance of knowledge and education. As such, the book argues, furthering of knowhow should be accessible and shared in order to achieve maximum innovation and benefit. Sustainability thinking, after all, is a metric for intrinsic human-nature relations in terms of past performance, present development, and future goals. This book discusses this metric and offers novel approaches to growing societies and what we can do next. Foreword by Patricia Dale Foreword by Monika Bąk Foreword by Yi Xie Foreword by Sathish Kokkula Foreword by Benny Mantin Preface Contents Editor and Contributors Abbreviations Sustainability: Understanding and Insight Human-Nature Relations: The Unwanted Filibuster 1 Key Message, Objectives, and Organization of the Book 2 Why Protect Nature? 3 One Ship, Two Classes 3.1 Gaia Theory and Contemporary Issues 3.2 Linking the Global North and the Global South for Sustainable Life on Earth 3.3 Historicity, Mutation, and Inheritance of Conflict in Africa 4 The Economy: A Subsystem Indicator 5 Synopsis of the Chapters References Sociocultural-Carrying Capacity: Impact of Population Growth in Rapa Nui 1 Introduction 2 Problem Statement 2.1 Case of Rapa Nui 3 Theoretical Framework 3.1 Carrying Capacity 3.2 Sociocultural-Carrying Capacity 4 Methodology 5 Results 6 Conclusion References Territorial Integration of Foreigners: Social Sustainability of Host Societies 1 Introduction 2 Territorial Integration of Foreigners and the Host Societies’ Social Sustainability 3 Methodology: Measuring Residential Segregation and the Role of Mixed Couples 4 Case Study: Tuscany 5 Conclusion References Sustainable Land Reforms and Irregular Migration Management 1 Mapping Out the Root Cause 2 Beginning of Land Reform in the Post-colonial Era 3 Land Injustice and Marginalization as Migration Push Factors 4 The EU-Africa Partnership on Irregular Migration Management 4.1 Detrimental Effect of the EU-Africa Partnership on Migration Control 5 Land Reform as a Missing Agenda in the EU-Africa Partnership on Migration Management 6 Concept of Sustainable Land Reform 7 Conclusion References Role of the International Ecological Network, Emerald, in the Western Balkans’ Protected Areas 1 Introduction 2 The Emerald Network 3 Western Balkan Countries: Nature Protection by IUCN and National Legislation 4 Results 5 Discussion 6 Conclusion References Economic Evaluation: Perspective Ideas How Efficient is Urban Land Speculation? 1 Introduction 2 Literature Review 3 Methodology and Research Approach 3.1 Case Study Approach 3.2 Desk Review Research Approach 3.3 Methods 4 Results and Discussion 4.1 Developed Value of Land 4.2 Speculative Value of Land 4.3 Upshot of Speculation on Resource Allotment Value of Land 4.4 Arithmetical Result: Social Cost of Speculation 4.5 Improving Resources 5 Conclusion References Land Use Change Model Comparison: Mae Sot Special Economic Zone 1 Introduction 2 Methodology 2.1 Literature Review 2.2 Cellular Automata-Markov Model 2.3 Land Change Modeler 2.4 Study Process 3 Results 3.1 Land Use Change 3.2 Analysis of Land Use Change Prediction by CA-Markov Model and LCM 3.3 Comparative Results 4 Conclusion References Cohesion Policy for Europe 2020 1 Introduction 2 Understanding Cohesion Policy 2.1 Cohesion Reporting Since 2010 2.2 Implementation of Cohesion Policy: Europe 2020 2.3 Financial Sources for Cohesion Policy 3 Achieving Europe 2020 Targets 4 Support for Private Business 5 Discussion 6 Conclusion References Evaluating Green Infrastructure via Unmanned Aerial Systems and Optical Imagery Indices 1 Introduction 2 Case Study 3 Unmanned Aerial Systems as a Source of Instant Environmental Data 3.1 Why Use Unmanned Aerial Systems? 3.2 Green Area Detection Using Unmanned Aerial Systems Visible Imagery 3.3 Types of Spatial Results Using Unmanned Aerial Systems 4 Results: Case Study of the Unmanned Aerial Systems Survey 5 Flood Map 6 Conclusion References Urbanization and Sustainability Strategies Urban Sustainability: Integrating Ecology in City Design and Planning 1 Introduction 2 Urban Sustainability 2.1 Ecological Planning, Ecosystem Services, and Eco-cities 2.2 Sustainable Urban Strategies and Scholarship 2.3 Urban Green Infrastructure 2.4 Urban Ecological Corridors 2.5 Urban Biosphere Reserve 3 Case Examples 3.1 New York City: “Green Infrastructure Plan” 3.2 London: “City Plan 2036” 4 Conclusion: Sustainable Planning and Design Tools for Measuring, Modeling, and Valuing Ecosystem Services References Urbanization and Population Change: Banjar Municipality 1 Introduction 2 Autonomous Cities in Indonesia 2.1 Response to Globalization 2.2 Decentralization and Regional Autonomy 3 Methodology 3.1 Study Area and Geography 3.2 Data Source and Method 4 Results and Discussion 5 Conclusion References Glossary References Index