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Transforming Biocities

Author : Giuseppe E. Scarascia-Mugnozza
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031294661
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Book Synopsis Transforming Biocities by : Giuseppe E. Scarascia-Mugnozza

Download or read book Transforming Biocities written by Giuseppe E. Scarascia-Mugnozza and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global climate change and inequity. Following this principle, the authors propose multiple approaches for sustainable city growth. The discussed concepts are not only relevant for newly constructed cities, but offer transformative perspectives for existing settlements as well. Placing nature at the forefront of city planning is not an entirely new concept, so the authors build on established ideas like the garden city, green city, eco-city, or smart city. All chapters aim to highlight aspects to develop a city that is a resilient nature-based socio-ecological system. Many of these concepts were formed in an effort to copy the best traits of a forest ecosystem: a home for many different species that build complex communities. Much like many of our forests, urban areas are managed by humans for multifunctional purposes, using living and abiotic components. This viewpoint helps to understand the potential and limitations of sustainable growth. With these chapters, the authors want to inspire planners, ecologists, urban foresters and decision makers of the future.

Political Ecologies of Landscape

Author : Connolly, Creighton
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529214165
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Political Ecologies of Landscape written by Connolly, Creighton and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connolly uses ongoing urban redevelopment in Penang in Malaysia to provide stimulating new perspectives on urbanisation, governance and political ecology. The book deploys the concept of landscape political ecology to show how Penang residents, activists, planners and other stakeholders mobilize new relationships with the urban environment, to contest controversial development projects and challenge hegemonic visions for the city’s future. Based on six years of local research, this book provides both a dynamic account of region’s rapid reshaping and a fresh theoretical framework in which to consider issues of sustainable development, heritage and governance in urban areas worldwide.

The New Pastoralism

Author : Mark Titman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118336984
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The New Pastoralism written by Mark Titman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-06 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Pastoralism demonstrates how small-scale additions or conversions using planting and wildlife can bring about engaging, delightful and efficient structures and spaces. The book’s numerous contributors each showcase a particular Nature device that they used to enhance their built proposals. Images are provided with text as annotation. The prominent featured architects will include: Michael Sorkin, Nicholas Grimshaw, Ken Yeang, Kathryn Findlay and Mos Architecture. The other contributors will show small or medium sized built projects they have worked on. All contributors will showcase a building, structure or surface as either drawn proposal or built construction.

BiodiverCITY - a Matter of Vital Soil!

Author : Joyce van den Berg
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789462086562
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (865 download)

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Book Synopsis BiodiverCITY - a Matter of Vital Soil! by : Joyce van den Berg

Download or read book BiodiverCITY - a Matter of Vital Soil! written by Joyce van den Berg and published by Nai010 Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication represents a quest for biodiversity in the city. Declining biodiversity in the countryside has been in the spotlight for years. Healthy soil life is of vital importance. Biodiversity in the city appears to be hidden. How do you design a public space that is anchored in healthy soil? There is a world full of life beneath our feet. Hidden in the soil, up to 100 million species of micro-organisms work together with fungi and plant roots to form networks that ensure a healthy living environment. Without soil, we cannot survive. Yet we treat our living environment inattentively. The growing world population is moving to cities, annexing surrounding areas and literally squeezing the life out of the soil. The urban climate, urbanized environment and urban water balance are detrimental to healthy soil life. The (urban) soil is largely sealed off and this results in extreme flooding, heat and drought exhaustion, soil compaction and habitat fragmentation. The design of the city includes many underground measures. Every change leads to soil exhaustion. This has to change. BiodiverCITY formulates measures and resulting details that will result in healthy soil life. Part of the programming of the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism 2021 and Architecture Biennale Venice 2021

Optimization and Applicability of Bioprocesses

Author : Hemant J. Purohit
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811068631
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Optimization and Applicability of Bioprocesses by : Hemant J. Purohit

Download or read book Optimization and Applicability of Bioprocesses written by Hemant J. Purohit and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the sustainable management of resources requires a systematic approach that primarily involves the integration of green innovative biotechnological strategies and eco-engineering. It discusses how microbial community intelligence can be used for waste management and bio-remediation and explains how biological processes can be optimized by integrating genomics tools to provide perspectives on sustainable development. The book describes the application of modern molecular techniques such as fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH), highly sensitive catalyzed reporter deposition (CARD)-FISH, in situ DNA-hybridization chain reaction (HCR) and methods for detecting mRNA and/or functional genes to optimize bioprocessess. These techniques, supplemented with metagenomic analysis, reveal that a large proportion of micro-organisms still remain to be identified and also that they play a vital role in establishing bioprocesses.

Biodivercity. a Matter of Soil!

Author : Joyce van den Berg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789462086777
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Biodivercity. a Matter of Soil! written by Joyce van den Berg and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Landscape, Well-Being and Environment

Author : Richard Coles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134684347
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Landscape, Well-Being and Environment written by Richard Coles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-being is now firmly established as an overarching theme of key concern to all professionals that work, manage or design the environment. However, well-being is a complex multi-dimensional issue rooted in the ways that we encounter, perceive and interpret the environment. No single discipline can claim to have sufficient knowledge to fully explain the types of interactions that occur, therefore there is a need to draw together a wide range of professions who are exploring the consequences of their actions upon the well-being of individuals and communities. This edited work addresses the above, consisting of a collection of studies which embrace different aspects of environment, landscape and well-being to consider current approaches to well-being research and practice that fall outside the traditional concepts of well-being as part of medical research, making links with architecture, landscape design, environmental perception, social interaction and environmental sustainability. The contributors originally presented at the international conference, ‘Well-Being 2011’ jointly hosted by Birmingham City University and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA); the chapters have been developed to present a coherent series of themes reviewing a wide range of literature, presenting case studies appropriate to diverse audiences.

Advances in Terrestrial Isopod Biology

Author : Jasna ?trus
Publisher : PenSoft Publishers LTD
ISBN 13 : 954642630X
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (464 download)

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Book Synopsis Advances in Terrestrial Isopod Biology by : Jasna ?trus

Download or read book Advances in Terrestrial Isopod Biology written by Jasna ?trus and published by PenSoft Publishers LTD. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrestrial isopods (woodlice) are the only group of crustaceans fully adapted to life on land and with about 3,700 species known at present represent the largest suborder of Isopoda. They occur in almost any kind of terrestrial habitat, from littoral to high mountains, from forests to deserts, with some species adapted to live in subterranean environments and others secondarily having returned to water. Woodlice are particularly important from a biogeographical and an ecological point of view, since they have limited dispersal ability, are often endemic to small geographic areas, and are extremely diverse ecologically.ÿThey also represent en excellent model group of animals to study the physiological adaptations related to the transition from an aquatic to a terrestrial way of life. This special issue of ZooKeys includes a collection of 20 papers presented during the 8th International Symposium on Terrestrial Isopod Biology, which was held at Bled, Slovenia from 19th to 23rd June 2011. Contributions address a wide range of topics related to terrestrial isopods, such as systematics, biogeography, morphology, physiology, molecular biology, microbiology, and ecology. Two contributions are related to the state of the art and future perspectives on biomineralizations in crustaceans and ecotoxicology in soil fauna. This special issue will be of great value for anyone interested in the biology of crustaceans in general and of terrestrial isopods in particular, stimulating future research on this unique group of animals.

The Hospitality and Tourism Industry in ASEAN and East Asian Destinations

Author : Jinlin Zhao
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000164713
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Hospitality and Tourism Industry in ASEAN and East Asian Destinations written by Jinlin Zhao and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume addresses the growing interest to understand tourism and hospitality in Southeast and South Asia, two regions that have seen tremendous growth in international tourists in recent years. It explores the current development of hospitality and tourism industry in the regions of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan as well as other key countries in Southeast and South Asia. The Hospitality and Tourism Industry in ASEAN and East Asian Destinations: New Growth, Trends, and Developments provides updated findings and case studies that highlight opportunities and issues of tourism and hospitality development in ASEAN. Chapters cover such diverse topics as: Online marketing strategies Sustainable hospitality development Diversification efforts of the tourism industry Innovations in independent hotels Wildlife tourism in urban destinations The Vietnamese national park system Consumers’ positive and negative images of certain destinations Much more While academicians will benefit from the updated research findings summarized by the respected scholars, hospitality professionals will also find the book a valuable source of information as the chapters delve into the most recent topical and industry focused issues.

Landscape of Discontent

Author : Andrew Newman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452943893
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Landscape of Discontent written by Andrew Newman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d’Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the Mayor’s vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers. Drawing extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic research with northeast Paris residents, as well as an analysis of green architecture and urban design, Andrew Newman argues that environmental politics must be separated from the construct of urban sustainability, which has been appropriated by forces of redevelopment and gentrification in Paris and beyond. France’s turbulent political environment also provides Newman with powerful new insights into the ways in which multiethnic coalitions can emerge⎯even amid overt racism and Islamophobia⎯in the struggle for more just cities and more inclusive societies. A tale of multidimensional political efforts, Landscape of Discontent cuts through the rhetoric of green cities to reveal the promise that environmentalism holds for urban communities anywhere.

Leaf Plan

Author : Mosè Ricci
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1638401489
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Leaf Plan by : Mosè Ricci

Download or read book Leaf Plan written by Mosè Ricci and published by Actar D, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Leaf Plan. Towards the Ecological Transition presents innovative methodologies and practices to guide and support a sustainable urban development to cope with climate, social, economic changes. The book will illustrate comprehensive design approaches to address climate change, urban metabolism, temporary uses, landscape multifunctionality, cohabitation through new modes of urban design based on criteria of flexibility and adaptability. Trento is the experimental territory where the innovative process, methodologies and theoretical reflection have been tested above the framework of the three-year research project “TUT Trento Urban Transformation”. The book is structured around the five challenges (Ecological, Accessible, Smart, Welcoming and Beauty) proposed by the TUT research group for the Trento Leaf Plan, the new metabolic plan for the city of Trento. Beside the innovative field-test experimentations, the holistic methodological approach proposed by the book will be transferable and adapted in other metropolitan contexts to enhance the urban ecological transition. The publication, edited by the TUT research group, will include theoretical essays, critical selection of reference projects, operational tools, and interviews with experts in ecological transition, sustainable mobility, co-design approach, sharing, and urban resilience.

BiodiverCity

Author : Elliott Chang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book BiodiverCity written by Elliott Chang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecture has always been about people, but it was never really made for nature. The concrete jungle spreads, and it leaves very little space for wildlife to survive. It is time to admit that our isolated lifestyle is damaging the entire ecosystem, and the only way to reverse the effect is to start living with other species. How should architecture be designed to allow humans and fish to live together in harmony? Hello, my name is Elliott, and my love for architecture and wild animals have come together to create this thesis. The title is the combination of the words biodiversity and city, to design architecture that can change people’s perception of cohabitation and lead future cities to become BiodiverCity. In this thesis, I want to research, investigate, and explore ways of designing an architectural space where humans and wild animals can cohabitate in harmony.

Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter

Author : Maurizio Carta
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030858472
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter by : Maurizio Carta

Download or read book Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter written by Maurizio Carta and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores urban resilience through significant, original and rigorous academic research, utilising the experiences of town planners, architects and decision makers to create a charter on resilient communities. The second part of the book presents mini-essays discussing the strategic points of the paper, and enabling more casual readers with the ability to access information on urban resilience. The book then explores urban resilience through the work and understanding of the institutions responsible for regulating the professions of urban planner, educators, professionals, and those involved in communication. Providing numerous illustrations and examples, Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter will be of interest to researchers, postgraduates, architects, urban designers and planners alike.

Climates. Habitats. Environments.

Author : Ute Meta Bauer
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262046814
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Climates. Habitats. Environments. written by Ute Meta Bauer and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists and writers go beyond disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to address the fight for environmental justice, uniting the Asia-Pacific vantage point with international discourse. Modeling the curatorial as a method for uniting cultural production and science, Climates. Habitats. Environments. weaves together image and text to address the global climate crisis. Through exhibitions, artworks, and essays, artists and writers transcend disciplinary boundaries and linear histories to bring their knowledge and experience to bear on the fight for environmental justice. In doing so, they draw on the rich cultural heritage of the Asia-Pacific, in conversation with international discourse, to demonstrate transdisciplinary solution-seeking. Experimental in form as well as in method, Climates. Habitats. Environments. features an inventive book design by mono.studio that puts word and image on equal footing, offering a multiplicity of media, interpretations, and manifestations of interdisciplinary research. For example, botanist Matthew Hall draws on Ovid’s Metamorphoses to discuss human-plant interpenetration; curator and writer Venus Lau considers how spectrality consumes—and is consumed—in animation and film, literature, music, and cuisine; and critical theorist and filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli proposes “Water Sense” as a geontological approach to “the question of our connected and differentiated existence,” informed by the “ancestral catastrophe of colonialism.” Artists excavate the natural and cultural DNA of indigo, lacquer, rattan, and mulberry; works at the intersection of art, design, and architecture explore “The Posthuman City”; an ongoing research project investigates the ecological urgencies of Pacific archipelagos. The works of art, the projects, and the majority of the texts featured in the book were commissioned by NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Copublished with NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore

Urban Horticulture

Author : Dilip Nandwani
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319670174
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Urban Horticulture written by Dilip Nandwani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides comprehensive information on the rapidly developing field of urban horticulture for sustainable use of land resources and creating a better environment. It presents peer-reviewed chapters from leading international researchers in the field of horticulture technologies, environmental issues, urban horticulture, and landscaping and its role in society. It covers a wide array of topics on this subject and constitutes a valuable reference guide for students, professors, researchers, builders, and agriculturists concerned with urban horticulture, city planning, biodiversity, and the sustainable development of horticultural resources. Urban horticultural technologies facilitate the efficient use of available land in urban and residential areas, helping meet the demand for fresh fruits and vegetables to feed ever-growing urban populations. The amount of green space in urban areas is dwindling due to rising land prices, while the climbing numbers of multi-story buildings are producing various environmental and health issues. Technological advances provide tools and techniques for high-density and vertical cropping in small areas, promoting efficient and sustainable resource utilization. As such, urban horticulture is gaining importance in city planning – not only to bolster the food supply but also to improve the aesthetic value, environmental conditions, landscape, and business environment, while also reducing the consumption of fossil fuel in transportation.

Rooftop Urban Agriculture

Author : Francesco Orsini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319577204
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Rooftop Urban Agriculture written by Francesco Orsini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects. The interdisciplinary team of authors involved stresses the different approaches and the multi-faceted forms that rooftop farming may assume in any context. While rooftop farming experiences are sprouting all over the world the need for scientific evidence on the most suitable growing solutions, policies and potential benefits emerges. This volume brings together existing experiences as well as suggestions for planning future sustainable cities.

Flat Out Delicious

Author : Jenn Sharp
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 1771513055
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book Flat Out Delicious written by Jenn Sharp and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for a 2021 Taste Canada Award and four 2021 Saskatchewan Book Awards A robust and inspiring travel companion for both local and visiting food-lovers alike that reveals the stories, inspiration, and friendly faces of the people who craft great food in Saskatchewan. From the province’s southern grain fields to its northern boreal forests, from its city markets to its small-town diners, Saskatchewan is the humble heartland of some of the nation’s most delicious food. Author Jenn Sharp and photographer Richard Marjan spent four months travelling Saskatchewan, chatting at market stalls, in kitchens, bottling sheds, and stockrooms. Flat Out Delicious is the culmination of interviews with small-scale farmers and city gardeners, beekeepers and chocolatiers, ranchers, chefs, and winemakers. Together they tell the story of Saskatchewan’s unique food systems. The journey is organized into seven regions (including a chapter each for restaurant hotbeds Regina and Saskatoon), with essays that delve deeper—into traditional Indigenous moose hunts, wild rice farming in the remote north, and berry picking in the south. There are profiles of over 150 artisans, along with detailed maps, travel tips, and stunning photography, making the book the ideal companion for a road trip that involves plenty of stopping to eat along the way. You’ll meet a lettuce-grower who left a career in the city, and the small-town grad who worked his way up in the Saskatoon restaurant world; couples who are the first in their families to raise livestock, alongside new generations maintaining century-old operations. Whether you’re visiting for the first time or are Saskatchewan born and bred, prepare to be surprised by the abundance of personalities and culinary experiences to be found here in the land of living skies.