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Description for Urban Land
Hardback. The author brings together the different aspects of the development, utilization, abandonment and degradation of urban land by discussing the causes of such degradation, the strategies of investigation and the techniques of remediation of urban land. Num Pages: 336 pages, 26 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: RNF; RNP; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 840.
Urban land is an environmental key topic considering the increasing urbani sation of our world. The amounting pressure on resources especially in the urban environment demand awareness across technical and political sectors and solid concepts for workable solutions. This book will address those people, who are key in coping with the challenges of sustainable urban land use management: Professionals in the growing field of urban land recycling and graduate students from different disciplines including urban planning, environmental sciences and geotechnics. Processes that lead to urban land degradation include the extraction of resources, their transformation into goods, the production of waste ... Read more
Urban land is an environmental key topic considering the increasing urbani sation of our world. The amounting pressure on resources especially in the urban environment demand awareness across technical and political sectors and solid concepts for workable solutions. This book will address those people, who are key in coping with the challenges of sustainable urban land use management: Professionals in the growing field of urban land recycling and graduate students from different disciplines including urban planning, environmental sciences and geotechnics. Processes that lead to urban land degradation include the extraction of resources, their transformation into goods, the production of waste ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540438458
SKU
V9783540438458
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Urban Land
From the reviews: "... this is the book that we have been waiting for ... this book should grace the shelves of every public and private bureau associated with urban land use issues across Europe." Prof. Alan Simson, The Leeds School of Art, Architecture and Design (Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 2, 2004: 173) ... Read more