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Towards a Liveable and Sustainable Urban Environment: Eco-Cities in East Asia
- Publication Year:
- 2010
- Edition:
- 1st
- Author:
- Lye, Liang Fook; Chen, Gang
- Publisher:
- World Scientific Publishing Co, Inc.
- ISBN:
- 978-9-81-428776-0
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This book comprises of papers from a workshop organized by the East Asian Institute on Eco-cities in East Asia on 27 February 2009 in Singapore.
With cities rapidly encroaching onto surrounding lands, the notion of “eco-city” proposes an innovative yet pragmatic approach to designing, building and operating cities in a way that the destructive impact of human urban activity upon nature will be significantly reduced.
Contributed by scholars, officials and environmental specialists from Japan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, the papers in this book focus on how individual governments in these countries undertake eco-city projects. The book also highlights best practices that are useful to policy makers and anyone else who seeks to learn from the experiences of other countries in order to reduce their ecological footprints.
With cities rapidly encroaching onto surrounding lands, the notion of “eco-city” proposes an innovative yet pragmatic approach to designing, building and operating cities in a way that the destructive impact of human urban activity upon nature will be significantly reduced.
Contributed by scholars, officials and environmental specialists from Japan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, the papers in this book focus on how individual governments in these countries undertake eco-city projects. The book also highlights best practices that are useful to policy makers and anyone else who seeks to learn from the experiences of other countries in order to reduce their ecological footprints.
Details
- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- World Scientific Publishing Co, Inc.
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Lye, Liang Fook; Chen, Gang
- ISBN:
- 978-9-81-428776-0
- Specialty:
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- Earth & Geological Sciences
- Environmental Sciences
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 1st
- Pages:
- 232
- Publication Year:
- 2010