Creating Sustainable Communities in a Changing World

Contributions from 50 authors
Editors: Philip E.J. Roetman and Christopher B. Daniels
Foreword: Barbara Hardy
262 pages
ISBN: 978-1-86333-335-1

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Making our communities sustainable is a complex and contentious issue. We need well-reasoned information in order to make sensible decisions that will mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of human activities, while advancing social equity and prosperity. In this book we provide many multidisciplinary perspectives on sustainability. Expert authors discuss and analyse how we can build, plan, travel, educate, manage resources (including waste), and power our communities in more sustainable ways, changing how we relate to, and interact with, the natural environment. The reader will develop their understanding of sustainability and how we can transform our communities as the climate changes and our society grows.

Contents:

Foreword
Barbara Hardy

1. Introduction
   Christopher B. Daniels and Philip E.J. Roetman
2. Can we measure sustainability?
   Kathryn Davidson
3. Responding to a changing climate
   Jon Kellett and Stephen Hamnett
4. Local capacity for carbon reduction
   Cathryn M. Hamilton
5. Zero waste and zero emission cities: transforming cities through sustainable design and behaviour change
   Steffen Lehmann
6. Developing a prefabricated low-carbon construction system using timber for multistorey inner-city housing
   Steffen Lehmann
7. Circulating resources, embodied energy and buildings
   Stephen Pullen
8. Ecological Footprinting: what it means and how to put the concept to best use
   John Boland and Manju Agrawal
9. An introduction to the waste input-output model: a methodology to evaluate sustainable behaviour around
   food
waste?
Christian John Reynolds, John Boland, Kirrilly Thompson and Drew Dawson
10. Social inclusion, climate change and sustainable communities
    Lou Wilson and Keri Chiveralls
11. The complexities of social sustainability: balancing tradition and change in a UNESCO World Heritage site
    Matthew Rofe, Diana Mohamad and Azizan Marzuki
12. The myth of affordable housing and sustainable urban development
    Alpana Sivam and Sadasivam Karuppannan
13. Delivering sustainability through construction and project management: principles, tools and practices
    Nicolas Chileshe
14. Sustainable transport, travel demand management, and electric vehicles
    Michael A.P. Taylor, Rocco Zito and Michelle Philp
15. Sustainable transport planning and urban communities
    Nicholas Holyoak
16. Low-emission mobility
    Peter J. Pudney
17. Meeting the needs of our future cities for goods movement
    Raluca Raicu
18. Zero-energy housing
    Stephen R. Berry and Wasim Y. Saman
19. Concentrated solar power generation and high-temperature energy storage
    Frank Bruno, Wasim Y. Saman and Ming Liu
20. Sustainability of industry-scale nanomanufacturing
    Peter Majewski, Lee Luong, Ke Xing and Yousef Amer
21. Urban biodiversity
    Sandra G. Taylor, Philip E.J. Roetman and Christopher B. Daniels
22. Health benefits of healthy ecosystems
    Lovisa M. Rosnäs, Marina M.C.J. Louter, G.U. Sofia Orre-Gordon and Phil Weinstein
23. Urban open space and health: the evidence base
    Jon Kellett and Mathew Rofe
24. Beyond nature conservation: the importance of parks to a sustainable society
    Delene L. Weber
25. Behaviour change and the tourism springboard to sustainability
    Barbara A. Koth
26. Education for sustainable development: improving curriculum design in higher education
    Ian Clark and Yvonne Zeegers
27. Educating engineers for sustainable practice
    Julie E. Mills, Anh L.H. Tran, Elizabeth J. Smith and James Ward
28. Educating for sustainability: a vehicle for engaging primary and middle education students in science
    Kathryn Paige and David Lloyd
29. The benefits of citizen science in research, education and community engagement
    Philip E.J. Roetman and Christopher B. Daniels
30. Conclusion
    Christopher B. Daniels and Philip E.J. Roetman

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