Author: Francesca Di Pietro
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030748820
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Faced with the growing demand for nature in cities, informal greenspaces are gaining the interest of various stakeholders - residents, associations, public authorities - as well as scientists. This book provides a cross-sectorial overview of the advantages and disadvantages of urban wastelands in meeting this social demand of urban nature, spanning from the social sciences and urban planning to ecology and soil sciences. It shows the potential of urban wastelands with respect to city dwellers’ well-being, environmental education, urban biodiversity and urban green networks as well as concerns regarding urban wastelands’ in relation to conflicts, and urban marketing. The authors provide a global insight through case studies in nine countries, mainly located in Europe, Asia and America, thus offering a broad perspective.
Author: François Ost
Publisher: Publications Fac St Louis
ISBN: 9782802800903
Category : Natural areas
Languages : fr
Pages : 312
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Author: Sandra L. Walker
Publisher: Publications Fac St Louis
ISBN: 9782802800859
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Recent years have witnessed a proliferation of laws regulating the environment. Such laws aim to protect the environment of the legislating country and increasingly, the environment beyond its borders. While the objectives of these rules appear to be laudable ones, environmental regulation is frequently criticized as trade-restrictive and protectionist. In addition, attempts to regulate foreign production processes are attacked as interfering with the sovereign right of foreign countries to determine their own standards of environmental management. Environmental protection goals may also hinder international trade and consequently become vulnerable to legal challenge under international trade law. The manner in which international trade law weights the competing objectives of environmental protection and trade liberalization is the subject of this book. The experience of the European Economic Community in this regard provides a useful backdrop against which the treatment of environmental regulation under the GATT can be both examined and improved. The author concludes the GATT reforms, such as the incorporation of environmental principes into GATT jurisprudence, are critical to ensuring the legality of legitimate environmental protection measures. Such efforts would serve to safeguard both the environment and a more stable international trading system. The study was financed by the Brussels Capital Region through the Visiting Scientist's Programme.
Author: Valerie Dewaelheyns
Publisher: Gompel&Svacina
ISBN: 9463710450
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Challenges of sustainability and transition need innovative tools for the understanding, mapping, designing and governing of manmade sites and territories. Complementary to standard land use categories, such as housing and agriculture, this book of essays introduces eleven ‘interface categories’, labels for land use interactions, transitions, mixes, and spatial and temporal positions in between. Authors from different disciplines describe and illustrate how this set of interfaces resonates with their own projects, challenges and agendas, and how it sheds light on new land use agents, on unregistered forms of land occupation, and on opportunities for socio-economic and ecosystem services. The concept of interfaces encourages the development of adapted modes of planning and management for urban, rural or natural environments, and on different spatial scales.
Author: European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions
Publisher: Commission of the European Communities
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Recoge: 1.Impressions from Istambul - 2.Sustainable cities for Europe - 3.Keynote - 4.Fragments of a urban discourse in Europe: utopias and eutopias - 5.Building sustainable futures in small and medium-sized cities in Europe - 6.Sustainability, sustanaible development and the search from the european sustainable - 7.Visions and actions from Freiburg.
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 858
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Author: Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
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Category : Metallurgy
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Author: Council of Europe
Publisher: Conseil de l'Europe
ISBN: 9789287151872
Category : Political Science
Languages : fr
Pages : 182
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