Urban facilities management: A systemic process for achieving urban sustainability

Institutional Barriers to the Application of Urban Village as a Tool for Achieving Urban Sustainability in Developing Countries - the Case of Asheghabaad, Isfahan, Iran.

Interpreting Sustainability for Urban Forests

Incisive interpretations of urban-forest sustainability are important in furthering our understanding of how to sustain the myriad values associated with urban forests. Our analysis of earlier interpretations reveals conceptual gaps. These interpretations are attached to restrictive definitions of a sustainable urban forest and limited to a rather mechanical view of maintaining the biophysical ...

A methodology to assess sustainability of urban stormwater management

Urban stormwater management (USWM) in developed countries is undergoing a significant evolution. Centralized systems are giving place to distributed facilities, mainly to cope with flooding caused by fast urban growth and with water bodies’ quality degradation. This evolution has to face inertias from existing structures, but it relies on the idea that new strategies are more sustainable than o...

Urban water sustainability

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Urban planning, urban Management & Urban Air Pollution and solutions for solving it

In response to the facts that some Asian developing countries were experiencing the fastest rate of industrialisation and urbanisation, several international initiatives called for a better and ‘sustainable’ urban management. Development of management tools including strategic environmental assessment (SEA), life cycle assessment (LCA), cost benefit analysis (CBA), and environmental managemen...