Megacities 2050: Environmental Consequences of Urbanization Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Landscape Architecture to Support City Sustainable Development /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Vasenev, Viacheslav I. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Dovletyarova, Elvira (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Chen, Zhongqi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Valentini, Riccardo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Geography,
• Subjects: Urban geography.; Sustainable development.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Environmental management.; Soil science.; Soil conservation.; Pollution.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Sustainable Development.; Urban Ecology.; Environmental Management.; Soil Science & Conservation.; Pollution, general.

This interdisciplinary proceedings book addresses highly relevant topics in urbanization and its environmental impacts and presents case studies revealing the negative environmental consequences of the anthropogenic and technogenic pressures. Urbanization is an important trend in current land-use ch...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction (paper 1)
• Part 1: Air quality and green house gas emissions (papers 2+3)
• Part 2: Urban soils at the multiple scales (papers 4-9)
• Part 3: Urban forests and green infrastructure (papers 10-13)
• Part 4: Advanced technologies in monitoring, assessment, design and management of urban ecosystems (papers 14-18).