TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monto, M.
TI  - Sustainability and human settlements
U1  - 338.927 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  -  Urban ecology (Sociology)
KW  - Urbanization -- Environmental aspects
KW  - Sustainable development
N1  - Chapter One Conceptions of Sustainability and Urban Sustainable Development; Cities Urbanisation and the Sustainable Development Debate; Understanding the Implications of Sustainable Development and Sustainability; Sustainable Development --
Concepts and Debates; Applying the Concept of Sustainability to Cities; A Framework for Sustainability and Sustainable Development for Cities; Sustainability and Urbanisation in Asia; Urban Practices --
Environmental Management and the Growth of Human Settlements; Situating Singapore in the Sustainability Debate. Clarifying the Implications of Sustainability and Sustainable Development for CitiesChapter Two Urban Sustainable Development Initiatives --
Responses of Cities and City Governments; Initiatives of Local Authorities in Support of Agenda 21; Regional Differences; Initiatives by Small Cities in Developing Countries; Initiatives of Cities in Developed Countries; Melbourne's initiatives for Thriving and Sustainable City; Initiatives of Smaller Cities; Processes in Urban Sustainable Development initiatives; Chapter Three Sustainability Indicators for Cities; Debating the Usefulness of indicators. Spatialising and Scaling indicatorsAssessing Urban Sustainability and its Policy Relevance; Indicators and a Sustainable Development index for Cities; Urban Sustainable Development indicators and index; Chapter Four Singapore --
Assessing the Progress Towards Sustainability; Transformation of a City-State --
Physical and Economic Agendas; Economic Objectives in the Development of Singapore; Going Beyond the Garden City Framework --
Time for a New Analog?; Shifting to the Deveiopment of the Environment City rather than Sustainabiiity; The Role of Civil Society in Nature Conservation. Strategies of Environmental PlanningFocus on the Built Environment; Managing the impact of Rapid Urbanisation and Industrialisation; Role of Sustainability in Environmental Pianning and Management; Chapter Five Urban Environmental Quality; Infrastructural Framework for Controls; Monitoring Framework for Controls; Legal and Enforcement Framework for Controls; Air Pollution Controls; Vehicular Emission Control; Water Pollution Controls; Managing Water Resources; Air Quality; Water Quality; Urban Environmental Quality and indicators of Sustainability. Chapter Six Housing --
Relating Urban Basic Needs to Urban Sustainable DevelopmentUrban Housing issues; Housing Health and the Environment; Sustainability issues in the Choice of Housing and Urban Form; Urban Sprawl ond Sustainability; Urban Travellng and Commuting Patterns; Housing Poiicy in Singapore; Challenge of Sustainability; Chapter Seven Population and Urban Sustainable Development; Urban Population Densities; Population Planning in Singapore and implications for Sustainability; ""Stopping at Two"" Policy Outcome; The Demographic Transition and the Ageing of the Singapore Population
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