Vladimir Novotny, Jack Ahern, Paul Brown

Water Centric Sustainable Communities (eBook, ePUB)

Planning, Retrofitting, and Building the Next Urban Environment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The current literature compartmentalizes the complex issue of water and wastewater into its discrete components; technology, planning, policy, construction, economics, etc. Considered from the perspective of sustainability, however, water in the urban environment must be approached as a single resource that can be continuously reused and recycled. This book will be the first to capture all of the current work on this idea in a single, integrated, plan for designing the water-centric cities of the future. From new construction to the retrofitting of existing systems, this book presents the case for a new urban relationship to water, one with a more sustainable connection to the environment and the hydrological cycle. Through case studies of successfully planned and built systems around the world, the book will educate the reader about the need for a new approach to urban water management, and make the case that these changes are not only possible but imperative.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470642849
• Artikelnr.: 37298342

Autorenporträt

Vladimir Novotny is Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and Emeritus Professor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is also President of AquaNova, LLC. Jack Ahern is Professor of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, Massachusetts. Paul Brown is Executive Vice President at CDM in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is also Technical Director of the Neysadurai Centre for Integrated Water Resources and Urban Planning in Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE. I HISTORIC PARADIGMS OF URBAN WATER/STORMWATER/WASTEWATER
MANAGEMENT AND DRIVERS FOR CHANGE. I.1 Introduction. I.2 Historic
Paradigms: From Ancient Cities to the 20th Century. I.3 Drivers for Change
towards Sustainability. I.4 The 21st Century and Beyond. References. II
URBAN SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPTS. II.1 The Vision of Sustainability. II.2 The
Sustainability Concept and Definitions. II.3 Towards the Fifth Paradigm of
Sustainability. II.4 Cities of the Future--Water Centric Ecocities. II.5
Ecocity/Ecovillage Concepts. III PLANNING AND DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE AND
RESILIENT CITIES: THEORIES, STRATEGIES, AND BEST PRACTICES FOR GREEN
INFRASTRUCTURE. III.1 Introduction. III.2 Ecosystem Services. III.3
Planning for Resilient and Sustainable Cities. III.4 Best Practices for
Green Infrastructure. III.5 Discussion. References. IV STORMWATER POLLUTION
ABATEMENT AND FLOOD CONTROL--STORMWATER AS A RESOURCE. IV.1 Urban
Stormwater--A Problem or an Asset? IV.2 Best Management Practices to
Control Urban Runoff for Reuse. V WATER DEMAND AND CONSERVATION. V.1 Water
Use. V.2 Water Conservation. V.3 Substitute and Supplemental Water Sources.
VI WATER RECLAMATION AND REUSE. VI.1 Introduction. VI.2 Water Reclamation
and Reuse. VI.3 Water Quality Goals and Limits for Selecting Technologies.
VII TREATMENT AND RESOURCE RECOVERY UNIT PROCESSES. VII.1 Brief Description
of Traditional Water and Resource Reclamation Technologies. VII.2 Sludge
Handling and Resource Recovery. VII.3 Nutrient Recovery. VII.4 Membrane
Filtration and Reverse Osmosis. VII.5 Disinfection. VII.6 Energy and GHG
Emission Issues in Water Reclamation Plants. VII.7 Evaluation and Selection
of Decentralized Water Reclamation Technologies. VIII ENERGY AND URBAN
WATER SYSTEMS--TOWARDS NET ZERO CARBON FOOTPRINT. VIII.1 Interconnection of
Water and Energy. VIII.2 Energy Conservation in Buildings and Ecoblocks.
VIII.3 Energy from Renewable Sources. VIII.4 Energy from Used Water and
Waste Organic Solids. VIII.5 Direct Electric Energy Production from Biogas
and Used Water. VIII.6 Summary and a Look into the Future. VIII.7 Overall
Energy Outlook--Anticipating the Future. IX RESTORING URBAN STREAMS. IX.1
Introduction. IX.2 Adverse Impacts of Urbanization to Be Remedied. IX.3
Water Body Restoration in the Context of Future Water Centric (Eco)Cities.
IX.4 Summary and Conclusions. X PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF SUSTAINABLE
FUTURE COMMUNITIES. X.1 Integrated Planning and Management. X.2 Urban
Planning. X.3 Integrated Resources Management (IRM). X.4 Clusters and
Ecoblocks--Distributed Systems. X.5 System Analysis and Modeling of
Sustainable Cities. X.6 Institutions. XI ECOCITIES: EVALUATION AND
SYNTHESIS. XI.1 Introduction. XI.2 Case Studies. XI.3 Brief Summary.
References. APPENDIX. INDEX.