Eco-Cities: A Planning Guide by Yang, Zhifeng

Eco-Cities: A Planning Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138077065)

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Format: Paperback
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Eco-Cities: A Planning Guide by Yang, Zhifeng

Eco-Cities: A Planning Guide

$115.99
Eco-Cities: A Planning Guide by Yang, Zhifeng

Eco-Cities: A Planning Guide

$115.99
Format: Paperback
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This guide provides an overview of urban ecosystem structures, functions, and changes and discusses how to successfully accomplish eco-city planning based on government requirements. It adds a new dimension to the understanding and the application of the concept of urban sustainability, based on hypotheses about social and biogeophysical processes and through in-depth case studies. It presents three novel theories for socioeconomic metabolic models and discusses total urban ecosystem health using both the traditional environmental analysis method and emergy and exergy as holistic indicators.



Author: Zhifeng Yang
ISBN-10: 1138077062
ISBN-13: 9781138077065
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2017
Pages: 620
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d
By Zhifeng Yang
By Zhifeng Yang
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Zhifeng Yang is a professor and the dean of the School of Environment at Beijing Normal University. His research areas include urban ecological planning and management. He has authored more than 10 books on urban planning, water resources management, and ecological engineering, and has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles. Professor Yang is an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Informatics and the Journal of Environmental Sciences, and a guest editor of Ecological Modelling and Ecological Informatics. He is also an editorial member of the Journal of Hydrodynamics, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, and Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering in China.

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