
This book covers urban sustainability, encompassing the overarching themes of core ideas, climate, cross-cutting concerns, advanced technologies, challenges, and solutions with reference to paradigms of climate change. It addresses green urbanism with detailed emphasis on urban infrastructure and explores strategies for managing common urban environmental issues. It unveils various social and cultural issues related to sustainable urban development, inclined towards equity, poverty, and public health and offers guidance on how to create more sustainable, resilient, and liveable urban environments.
Explores a comprehensive account of urban-scale carbon neutrality
Provides thoughts about carbon neutrality's possible pathways, challenges, and related research
Covers impact of carbon neutrality-based policies on people, their awareness and potential role in influencing policies
Includes biophilic cities, green gentrification, ghetto, and geospatial advancement in sustainability
Offers a combination of theory and case studies that can highlight the versatility of the concepts discussed
This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in civil and environmental engineering.
Tanu Kumari is currently pursuing her PhD at the Integrative Ecology Laboratory of Banaras Hindu University. The area of her doctoral research is riparian ecology under the flooding scenario. While taking part in several national and international conferences, workshops, and seminars, she has published interesting and relevant research articles related to sustainability and climate change.
Pramit Verma is currently working in the field of urban ecology and sustainable energy. He has done postdoctorate work at Nicolaus Copernicus University. He completed his PhD from Banaras Hindu University, India. He has also worked in the field of urban climate disaster risk reduction and management. He has published several research articles while participating in various national and international conferences, workshops and seminars.
Pardeep Singh is presently working as an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Science at the University of Delhi. He obtained his doctorate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in 2017. The area of his doctoral research is degradation of organic pollutants through various indigenous isolated microbes and by using various types of photocatalytic. He has published more than 35 papers in the international journals in the fields of waste management.