Download or read book D veloppement urbain durable et Agenda 21 local Analyse de la fili re du bois Lausanne written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La ville a un rôle primordial à jouer en matière de développement durable car son territoire est soumis à des évolutions qui risquent de compromettre gravement les équilibres économiques, écologiques et sociaux. Il est nécessaire aujourd ui de trouver des solutions pour diminuer l mpreinte écologique de la ville sur l nvironnement. Le retour du bois dans le milieu urbain s vère donc judicieux. Le bois est une matière première qui se régénère. Il pousse à nos portes, se renouvelle sans cesse et sa transformation demande moins d ́nergie que d utres matériaux. Cela permet d ́pargner les énergies fossiles et de diminuer les émissions de CO2. C st dans le domaine de la construction et de l ́nergie que se situent les potentiels les plus importants d tilisations du bois. En Suisse, où les forêts sont actuellement sous-exploitées, les démarches en faveur de l mploi du bois répondent à des attentes non seulement écologiques, mais aussi économiques et sociales. Loin de l mage nostalgique du chalet et du fourneau de nos grand-mères, ce matériau apparaît à présent comme résolument moderne et se dresse en concurrent sérieux face au béton, à l cier et au pétrole. Le cas de Lausanne est particulièrement intéressant car, à travers son Agenda 21, elle a réussi à mettre en place un véritable programme d ction permettant la revalorisation du bois local. Le but de ce travail est de voir en quoi la valorisation des forêts lausannoises et la réhabilitation du bois en ville, comme matériau de construction et source d ́nergie, constituent une stratégie efficace dans la quête d n développement urbain durable.
Download or read book D veloppement urbain durable et Agenda 21 local written by Virginie Perroud and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enjeux du d veloppement urbain durable written by Antonio da Cunha and published by EPFL Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inventions humaines, les villes constituent des miroirs du changement. Les espaces urbains sont au cœur des processus de globalisation, de transformation technologique et de recomposition économique et sociale des territoires. La qualité de leurs cadres de vie, l'organisation des mobilités et l'agencement de leurs formes, les incidences environnementales de leurs métabolismes, mais aussi leur gouvernance, constituent des enjeux d'une brûlante actualité. La ville n'est pas durable, mais elle peut contribuer à la durabilité. Comment inventer les villes de demain ? L'analyse des transformations urbaines récentes suggère une question majeure : comment rendre ta ville à la fois supportable pour la nature, et l'environnement urbain vivable pour l'homme ? Cette publication collective, élaborée dans le cadre lémanique du Programme interuniversitaire Sciences, Vie, Société, a pour objectif d'analyser les problématiques et les enjeux relatifs aux transformations des espaces urbains à l'aide du concept de développement urbain durable. Elle montre de quelle façon cette notion permet de renouveler le questionnement sur les formes, les structures et les dynamiques urbaines. L'éco-urbanisme pose de manière centrale les questions du dialogue entre les acteurs de la ville et de leur participation à la conception et à la mise en œuvre du projet urbain. Cette publication propose aussi un nouveau cadre d'analyse fondé sur la combinaison des politiques publiques et des droits de propriété permettant de dégager des pistes pour mieux gérer les ressources environnementales. Enfin, elle explore les enjeux des régulations politiques et institutionnelles dans les villes sous l'angle du développement urbain durable et de la gouvernance.
Download or read book Le developpement durable urbain et l Agenda 21 local written by Catherine Charlot-Valdieu and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enjeux du d veloppement urbain durable written by Antonio Da Cunha and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cit de l nergie et Agenda 21 deux d marches de d veloppement durable compl mentaires written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dans les années 1970, suite à une forte croissance économique, on observe l ́mergence de problèmes liés au chômage, à la pauvreté, à la pollution, à la raréfaction des ressources naturelles ou encore à la congestion urbaine, qui remettent en question le développement basé sur la croissance. C st dans ce contexte qu pparaît la notion de développement durable, qui vise à terme, à un équilibre entre les dimensions économique, environnementale et sociale. Il s git d ne nouvelle approche pour observer le développement du territoire. Le développement durable vise à intégrer les différentes politiques sectorielles de la ville afin de parvenir à une durabilité urbaine. Pour instaurer cette dimension transversale, les programmes de développement urbain durable fonctionnent comme des vecteurs de transmission. Ils permettent également de sensibiliser et d nformer les différents acteurs de la société, et de les intégrer dans ces processus qui se veulent participatifs. C st dans ce contexte que se situe notre travail, dont l bjectif est de comparer deux démarches de développement urbain durable, l genda 21 local et la Cité de l ́nergie, afin de déterminer dans quelle mesure elles peuvent être considérées comme complémentaires. Il s git de déterminer si un rapprochement entre les démarches d genda 21 local et de Cité de l ́nergie permet de renforcer le développement durable et les échanges entre les capitaux, ainsi que la notion de transversalité. Les programmes d ctions présentent des différences et des similitudes en ce qui concerne leur domaine d ctivité ou les acteurs impliqués. Nous observons également en quoi cela permet renforcer la communication.
Download or read book Agenda 21 local written by Stefan Frey and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spaces and Identities in Border Regions written by Christian Wille and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial and identity research operates with differentiations and relations. These are particularly useful heuristic tools when examining border regions where social and geopolitical demarcations diverge. Applying this approach, the authors of this volume investigate spatial and identity constructions in cross-border contexts as they appear in everyday, institutional and media practices. The results are discussed with a keen eye for obliquely aligned spaces and identities and relinked to governmental issues of normalization and subjectivation. The studies base upon empirical surveys conducted in Germany, France, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Download or read book Ecoregionalism written by Jon Marco Church and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive understanding of environmental regionalism at the international level, analyzing the concept and identifying recurring patterns from six in-depth case studies. While ecoregions or environmental regions are defined on ecological boundaries rather than administrative criteria, ecoregionalism is the idea that regional dynamics should cluster around ecoregions, while ecoregionalization is the tendency of regional dynamics to cluster around ecoregions. Focusing on the international level, this book presents six cases of ecoregional processes from around the world and the regional environmental agreements: two are terrestrial, the Alps and the Andes; two are marine, the Mediterranean Sea and the Baltic Sea; two are related to freshwater ecosystems: the Amu Darya in Central Asia and the Great Lakes in North America. The book analyzes both ecoregional processes focused on the environment, as well as intersectoral ecoregional processes. The case studies are analyzed based on the ecoregional governance framework, developed by the author for this book. Despite the diversity of context, the similarity of the governance system of the six cases is striking. Several recurring patterns have been identified, which may also extend to the subnational level. They are not design principles, but may be taken into consideration for the design or redesign of current and future regional environmental agreements and processes. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, natural resource management, spatial planning and international relations.
Download or read book Faecal Sludge Management written by Linda Strande and published by IWA Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is estimated that literally billions of residents in urban and peri-urban areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America are served by onsite sanitation systems (e.g. various types of latrines and septic tanks). Until recently, the management of faecal sludge from these onsite systems has been grossly neglected, partially as a result of them being considered temporary solutions until sewer-based systems could be implemented. However, the perception of onsite or decentralized sanitation technologies for urban areas is gradually changing, and is increasingly being considered as long-term, sustainable options in urban areas, especially in low- and middle-income countries that lack sewer infrastructures. This is the first book dedicated to faecal sludge management. It compiles the current state of knowledge of the rapidly evolving field of faecal sludge management, and presents an integrated approach that includes technology, management, and planning based on Sandecs 20 years of experience in the field. Faecal Sludge Management: Systems Approach for Implementation and Operation addresses the organization of the entire faecal sludge management service chain, from the collection and transport of sludge, and the current state of knowledge of treatment options, to the final end use or disposal of treated sludge. The book also presents important factors to consider when evaluating and upscaling new treatment technology options. The book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students, and engineers and practitioners in the field who have some basic knowledge of environmental and/or wastewater engineering.
Download or read book The Elgar Companion to Geography Transdisciplinarity and Sustainability written by Fausto O. Sarmiento and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from top geographers, this Companion frames sustainability as exemplar of transdisciplinary science (critical geography) while improving future scenarios, debating perspectives between rich North/poor South, modern urban/backwards rural, and everything in between. The Companion has five sections that carry the reader from foundational considerations to integrative trends, to resources use and accommodation, to examples highlighting non-traditional pathways, to a postscript about cooperation of the industrialized Earth and a prognosis of the road ahead for the new geographies of sustainability.
Download or read book Telecoupling written by Cecilie Friis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive exploration of the emerging concept and framework of telecoupling and how it can help create a better understanding of land-use change in a globalised world. Land-use change is increasingly characterised by a spatial disconnect between its main environmental, socioeconomic and political drivers and the main impacts and outcomes of those changes. The authors examine how this separation of the production and consumption of land-based resources is driven by population growth, urbanisation, climate change, and biodiversity and carbon conservation efforts. Identifying and fostering more sustainable, just and equitable modes of land use and intervening in unsustainable ones thus constitute substantial, almost overwhelming challenges for science and policy. This book brings together leading scholars on land-use change and sustainability to systematically discuss the relevance of telecoupling research in addressing these challenges. The book presents an overview of the telecoupling approach, reflects on a number of the most pressing issues surrounding land-use change today and discusses the agenda for advancing understanding on sustainable land-use change through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.
Download or read book Linking Restoration and Ecological Succession written by Lawrence R. Walker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book integrates practical information from restoration projects around the world with the latest developments in successional theory. It recognizes the critical roles of disturbance ecology, landscape ecology, ecological assembly, invasion biology, ecosystem health, and historical ecology in habitat restoration. It argues that restoration within a successional context will best utilize the lessons from each of these disciplines.
Download or read book Gharial Conservation in Nepal written by Tirtha Man Maskey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Greener Cities in Africa written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2012 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Global Plan of Action addresses new challenges, such as climate change and food insecurity, as well as novel opportunities, including information, communication and molecular methodologies. It contains 18 priority activities organized in four main groups: In situ conservation and management; Ex situ conservation; Sustainable use; and Building sustainable institutional and human capacities.
Download or read book Redefining Prosperity written by Isabelle Cassiers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society today faces a difficult contradiction: we know exactly how the physical limits of our planet are being reached and exactly why we cannot go on as we have before – and yet, collectively, we seem unable to reach crucial decisions for our future in a timely way. This book argues that our definition of prosperity, which we have long assimilated with the idea of material wealth, may be preventing us from imagining a future that meets essential human aspirations without straining our planet to the breaking point. In other words, redefining prosperity is a necessary and urgent task. This book is the fruit of a long debate among 15 scholars from diverse fields who worked together to bring the depth and nuance of their respective fields to questions that affect us all. The result is a rich, transdisciplinary work that illuminates the philosophical and historical origins of our current definition of prosperity; identifies the complex processes that gave rise to the problems we face today; elucidates the ways in which our contemporary environmental, social, nutritional, economic, political, and cultural crises are interconnected; and explores why a half-century of economic growth has neither increased life satisfaction in the West nor vanquished world poverty. Approaching these broad-ranging questions from the specific standpoints of their disciplines, each of the authors offers thoughts for the future, considering possible escape routes and proposing changes to the way we live, behave, and organise society and public action – changes that actually respond, in an equitable way, to our deepest aspirations. Ultimately, in laying the groundwork for a public debate on this subject, this book poses a question to its readers: what is your definition of prosperity, and what can be done to promote it?
Download or read book The Horizontal Metropolis Between Urbanism and Urbanization written by Paola Viganò and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the Horizontal Metropolis concept, and of the theoretical, methodological and political implications for the interdisciplinary field in which it operates. The book investigates the contemporary emergence of a new type of extended urbanity across regions, territories and continents, up to the global scale. Further, it explores the diffusion of contemporary urban conditions in an interdisciplinary and original manner by analyzing essential case studies. Offering extensive content on the Horizontal Metropolis concept, the book presents a range of approaches intended to transcend various inherited spatial ontologies: urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, and society/nature. The book is intended for all readers interested in the emergence and development of new approaches in cultural theory, urban and design education, landscape urbanism and geography.
