Urban sustainability [electronic resource] : policy and praxis / Jay D. Gatrell, Ryan R. Jensen, Mark W. Patterson, Nancy Hoalst-Pullen, editors.
Gatrell, Jay D., editor.; Jensen, Ryan R., 1973- editor.; Patterson, Mark (Professor of geography), editor.; Hoalst-Pullen, Nancy. editor.
2016
HT166
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Title Urban sustainability [electronic resource] : policy and praxis / Jay D. Gatrell, Ryan R. Jensen, Mark W. Patterson, Nancy Hoalst-Pullen, editors.
ISBN 9783319262185 (electronic book)
3319262181 (electronic book)
9783319262161
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26218-5
Published Cham : Springer, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vi, 266 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-26218-5 doi
Call Number HT166
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76
Summary This book explores the environmental, economic, and socio-political dynamics of sustainability from a geographic perspective. The chapters unite the often disparate worlds of environment, economics, and politics by seeking to understand and visualize a range of sustainability practices on the ground and in place. In concert, the book provides an overview of a range of geotechnical applications associated with environmental change (water resources, land use & land cover change); as well as investigates more nuanced and novel examples of local economic development in cities. The diverse collection maps local practices from urban farming to evolving and thriving industries such as metal scrapping and craft beer. Additionally, the book provides an integrated geo-technical framework for understanding and assessing ecosystem services, explores the deployment of unmanned systems to understand urban environmental change, interrogates the spatial politics of urban green movements, examines the implications of revised planning practices, and investigates environmental justice. The book will be of interest to researchers, students, and anyone seeking to better understand sustainability at multiple scales in urban environments.
Bibliography, etc. Note ReferencesChapter 8: Poverty, Sustainability, & Metal Recycling: Geovisualizing the Case of Scrapping as a Sustainable Urban Industry in Detroit; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Why Is Scrap Metal in Demand?; 8.3 Who Are Scrappers, and What Do They Do?; 8.4 Metal Recycling and Urban Sustainability; 8.5 Growth and Change in Scrap Metal Markets; 8.6 Industrial Symbiosis; 8.7 Urban Metabolism; 8.8 Scrap Yards: Essential Nodes for Urban Metabolism; 8.9 Scrap Yard Site Selection; 8.10 The Negative Externalities of Scrap Metal Recycling; 8.11 Scrapping as a Green Job Creator: An Empirical Analysis
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 8, 2016).
Added Author Gatrell, Jay D., editor.
Jensen, Ryan R., 1973- editor.
Patterson, Mark (Professor of geography), editor.
Hoalst-Pullen, Nancy. editor.
Series Geotechnologies and the environment ; 14.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783319262161
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Introduction
Part 1. Environmental Change and Urban Morphology
Urban Stream Management
Ecosystem services assessment from the mountain to the sea: A multidisciplinary method for defining ecosystem service indicators across landscape units
Best Practices for Measuring Urban Forest Dynamics Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Data
Changing Urban Forest Dynamics in a Semi-Arid City
Mapping and Sustainability of Urban and Suburban Parks
Mapping stream removal and convergence in urban watersheds
Managing Sustainability in National Parks
Part 2 Economic Change, Industry, and Sustainable Local Alternatives
The Role of Social Networks in Building a Local Food System
Urban Mining
Where are the garden(er)s? Examining gardener motivations and community garden participation-sheds in Austin, Texas
Is sustainability brewing for microbreweries and brewpubs in the U.S.?
The Food Hub as a Strategy for Small Farmers
GIS, Transportation, and Sustainable Economic Development in Atlanta
Part 3 Socio-Political Change and Adaptation
Is Urban Sustainability possible in post-Katrina New Orleans
Mapping Environmental Justice: A framework for understanding sustainability at the neighborhood scale in Indianapolis
Unmanned Systems and Managing from Above
Urban Greening as a Social Movement
Decision making and sustainability in built environments
Conclusion. .

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