Urban Environmental Management And Technology (csur-ut Series: Library For Sustainable Urban Regeneration)

The importance of urban environmental management in the face of formidable challenges is being increasingly highlighted. This book offers a comprehensive overview of science and policy, with discussion of relevant traditional and contemporary technologies. Considering the complexity of urban environmental management, the book deals with environmental media such as water, waste, and energy from the individual building level to regional and global levels. In three major sections - Water Environment, Material Flow and Risk, Heat and Energy Management - environmental issues, policy needs, and countermeasures from currently available and newly developing technologies are addressed. Authors from a broad spectrum of disciplines, including civil engineering, architecture, and urban environmental engineering, bring together their different perspectives to make this book the first to deal with urban environmental management in a truly holistic manner. For this reason it is well suited to the needs and interests of undergraduate and postgraduate students, academic researchers, policy makers, urban planners, and private practitioners. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 2-2 Water Management in Sustainable Buildings....Pages 3-28 Urban Water Use and Multifunctional Sewerage Systems as Urban Infrastructure....Pages 29-46 Urban River Management: Harmonizing River Ecosystem Conservation....Pages 47-66 Development of Coastal Urban Regions with Sustainable Topographical Environments....Pages 67-87 Front Matter....Pages 90-90 Municipal Solid Waste Management for a Sustainable Society....Pages 91-105 Dismantlement of Buildings and Recycling of Construction Waste....Pages 107-128 Holistic Approaches for Impact Assessment in Urban Environmental Management....Pages 129-144 Risk Assessments in Urban Environment....Pages 145-156 Fate of Water-Related Pathogens in Urban Water Systems....Pages 157-172 Front Matter....Pages 174-174 Global Climate Change and Cities....Pages 175-194 Japanese Strategies for Global Warming Issues and Energy Conservation in Buildings....Pages 195-214 Management of Urban Heat Environment....Pages 215-238 Urban Environmental Management and Technology....Pages 243-243 Back Matter....Pages 239-242 "Considering the complexity of urban environmental management, the book deals with environmental media such as water, waste, and energy from the individual building level to regional and global levels. In three major sections - Water Environment, Material Flow and Risk, Heat and Energy Management - environmental issues, policy needs, and countermeasures from currently available and newly developing technologies are addressed. Authors from a broad spectrum of disciplines, including civil engineering, architecture, and urban environmental engineering, bring together their different perspectives to make this book the first to deal with urban environmental management in a truly holistic manner. For this reason it is well suited to the needs and interests of undergraduate and postgraduate students, academic researchers, policy makers, urban planners, and private practitioners."--Jacket This book examines the importance of urban environmental management in the face of formidable challenges. It offers a comprehensive overview of science and policy, with discussion of relevant traditional and contemporary technologies.