Title:	Sustainable Urban Environments An Ecosystem Approach
Authors:	Bueren, Ellen van Ellen van Bueren Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Delft University of Technology Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft The Netherlands e.m.vanbueren@tudelft.nl Laure Itard OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Delft University of Technology Jaffalaan 9, 2628 BX Delft The Netherlands l.c.m.itard@tudelft.nl Hein van Bohemen Former Lecturer Ecological Engineering at Delft University of Technology; now Eco Engineering Consultancy Holierhoek 36 2636 EK Schipluiden The Netherlands h.bohemen@kpnplanet.nl Henk Visscher OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment Delft University of Technology Jaffalaan 9, 2628 BX Delft The Netherlands h.j.visscher@tudelft.nl
Keywords:	Architecture
Issue Date:	2012
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Urban environments are bulk consumers of energy, water and materials and contribute to problems such as resource depletion, pollution and climate change. Considering urban environments as ecosystems helps us to understand the relation- ships between the many factors in the urban environment that together contribute to unsustainable development. It enables us to model the flows going in, through and out of cities or urban systems and to identify opportunities for making them more efficient, while being aware of influences from outside the systems that may influence the systems’ performance. By providing a basic understanding of urban areas as systems this book will help (future) designers, builders, planners and managers of (parts of) our urban systems to analyse them and to identify appropriate solutions.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/48858
ISBN:	978-94-007-1294-2
Appears in Collections:	Environmental and Development Studies

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