Urban Environmental Management and Technology

The importance of urban environmental management in the face of formidable challenges is being increasingly highlighted. This book offers a comprehensive overview of science and policy, with discussion of relevant traditional and contemporary technologies. Considering the complexity of urban environmental management, the book deals with environmental media such as water, waste, and energy from the individual building level to regional and global levels. In three major sections - Water Environment, Material Flow and Risk, Heat and Energy Management - environmental issues, policy needs, and countermeasures from currently available and newly developing technologies are addressed. Authors from a broad spectrum of disciplines, including civil engineering, architecture, and urban environmental engineering, bring together their different perspectives to make this book the first to deal with urban environmental management in a truly holistic manner. For this reason it is well suited to the needs and interests of undergraduate and postgraduate students, academic researchers, policy makers, urban planners, and private practitioners.

This book examines the importance of urban environmental management in the face of formidable challenges. It offers a comprehensive overview of science and policy, with discussion of relevant traditional and contemporary technologies.

Water Environment.- Water Management in Sustainable Buildings.- Urban Water Use and Multifunctional Sewerage Systems as Urban Infrastructure.- Urban River Management: Harmonizing River Ecosystem Conservation.- Development of Coastal Urban Regions with Sustainable Topographical Environments.- Material Flow and Risk.- Municipal Solid Waste Management for a Sustainable Society.- Dismantlement of Buildings and Recycling of Construction Waste.- Holistic Approaches for Impact Assessment in Urban Environmental Management.- Risk Assessments in Urban Environment.- Fate of Water-Related Pathogens in Urban Water Systems.- Heat and Energy Management.- Global Climate Change and Cities.- Japanese Strategies for Global Warming Issues and Energy Conservation in Buildings.- Management of Urban Heat Environment.- Heat and Energy Management.- Urban Environmental Management and Technology.