Sustainable mega city communities
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Sustainable mega city communities
Butterworth-Heinemann, c2021
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Sustainable Mega City Communities scrutinizes the challenges encountered when designing, planning and constructing sustainable megacities. Chapters explain the role of national and local governments for the strategic planning, development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of standards of water, air, food and products used by the community. Other chapters cover Water Delivery Systems, Sanitation and Waste Disposal Systems, Power Systems, and Public Health Systems, new green technologies, practices, and standards predicated by the need for sustainable office building and housing.
Table of Contents
SECTION 1 Introduction
SECTION 2 Public policy: the international perspective: Overview1. Government: plans, goals, and strategies to be smart and healthy communities2. The economics of sustainable development3. Systems integrated mass transit to walking paths4. Security and protection for people and systems: Integrated approaches for decoupling urban growth from emissions pressures in megacities5. Future needs from the SMC plans e looking at Jiaxing, China: 40 years' development from numbers6. Future needs from the Smart Mega City (SMC) Plansd - smart green citys - the case of Istanbul
SECTION 3 Economic options: back to the future: In China, the future is now7. Finance, economics, and energy: SMC green development8. Circular economy: the next economics9. Options and planning for more sustainable development10. Global and international policies: UN Paris Accord UN G19 and G20
SECTION 4 Globalism and regionalism: overview11. Improving interconnectivity with multimodal transportation12. Leading historical cities13. Tokyo sustainable megacity: robust governance to maximize synergies
SECTION 5 Conclusion14. USA yesterday, today, and next the near future
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