Interdisciplinary Approaches to Public Policy and Sustainability, Rituparna Das, Nivedita Mandal

Indrajit Pal, Jason Von Meding, Chutinan Klinmalai

Chapter 2: Earthquake Risk Assessment in Momase Region of Papua New Guinea using GIS

Tingneyuc Sekac, Sujoy Kumar Jana, Indrajit Pal and Dilip Kumar Pal

Chapter 3: Spatio-Temporal Variability of Landslides in the Sikkim Himalaya, India

Singh, A, Ranjan, R. and Tewari, V.

Chapter 4: Geo Spatial Approach for likelihood damage assessment of buildings due to seismic hazard in urbanized areas

Ganapathy Pattukandan Ganapathy, Saravana Ganesh Manoharan

Chapter 5: Perspective of Science and Technology in Disaster Management and Mitigation

Chapter 6: Application of remote sensing & GIS in flood vulnerability assessment - A case study of Lower Ajay Basin, India

Chapter 7: Stable Isotopes and Groundwater Dynamics of the Shallow Ping River Alluvial System in Kamphaeng Phet Riverbank Filtration (RBF) Prospecting Site, Upper Central Thailand

Nitipon Noipow, Kiattipong Kamdee, Supalak Kongsri, Wutthikrai Kunsawat, Chakrit Saengkorakot, Chunyapuk Kukusamude, Patchariya Chanruang, Ocpasorn Occarach, Arpakorn Wongsit, Vanachawan Hunyek and Wattanapong Montree

Chapter 8: Risk identification, Assessment and Management of a Building Information Modelling (BIM) implemented project

Raju Sarkar, Karan Narang, Prajya Sharma, Indrajit Pal

Chapter 9: Identification of arsenic hazard locations and impact on children - A case study on Baruipur Block, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal

Paramita Chaudhuri, Pritam Aitch, Amit Dutta

Chapter 10: Effect of Changing Vegetation coverage and Metereological Parameters on the Hazard Characteristics of Indian Sundarban Region and its Impact

Papia Guha, Pritam Aitch and Gupinath Bhandari

Chapter 11: The study of the Impact of Wastewater from Outfall in River Ganga, West Bengal on the Growth and Morphological Parameters of Spinacia Oleracea

Sayanti Kar, Indrajit Ghosh, Amitava Ghosh, Pritam Aitch, Gupinath Bhandari

Chapter 12: Modeling of Flood Susceptibility and Risk Assessment based on GIS and Analytical hierarchy Process-A Aase Study of Adayar River Basin, Tamilnadu, India

S. Saravanan and S. Sivaranjani

Leki Dorji, Raju Sarkar, Arun Gurung, Ugyen Lhachey, Vasker Sharma, Tshewang and Ritesh Kurar

Chapter 14: Sustainability, Development and Disaster Risk in Rural Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene in Western Nepal

Chandra Bhaka Bista

Chapter 15: Sustainable Development through Disaster Risk Management in India: A Case Study of Chandigarh

Rajiv Gupta and Namita Gupta

Chapter 16: Integrated Strategic Environmental Assessment: Nepal's Earthquake Reconstruction & Sustainable Development Approach Addressing Environment and Disaster Risk

Purna Chandra Lal Rajbhandari and Karen Sudmeier

Chapter 17: Disaster resilient and sustainable development in Nepal (issues, challenges, opportunities, an experience of sharing of Himalayan country, Nepal)

Charles Pradhan

Chapter 18: Sustainable Development Through Public Private Partnership: An Approach to Eco-Tourism Hedging Risk to Disaster with Resilience

Biswajit Das, Bhubaneswari Bisoyi, Mangalika Mohapatra

Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice responds to the crises of sustainability in the world today by going back to basics. It makes four major contributions to thinking about and acting upon cities. It provides a means of reflexivity learning about urban sustainability in the process of working practically for positive social development and projected change. It challenges the usually taken-for-granted nature of sustainability practices while providing tools for modifying those practices. It emphasizes the necessity of a holistic and integrated understanding of urban life. Finally it rewrites existing dominant understandings of the social whole such as the triple-bottom line approach that reduce environmental questions to externalities and social questions to background issues. The book is a much-needed practical and conceptual guide for rethinking urban engagement.

Covering the full range of sustainability domains and bridging discourses aimed at academics and practitioners, this is an essential read for all those studying, researching and working in urban geography, sustainability assessment, urban planning, urban sociology and politics, sustainable development and environmental studies.

Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice responds to the crises of sustainability in the world today by going back to basics. It makes four major contributions to thinking about and acting upon cities. It provides a means of reflexivity learning about urban sustainability in the process of working practically for positive social development and projected change. It challenges the usually taken-for-granted nature of sustainability practices while providing tools for modifying those practices. It emphasizes the necessity of a holistic and integrated understanding of urban life. Finally it rewrites existing dominant understandings of the social whole such as the triple-bottom line approach that reduce environmental questions to externalities and social questions to background issues. The book is a much-needed practical and conceptual guide for rethinking urban engagement.

Covering the full range of sustainability domains and bridging discourses aimed at academics and practitioners, this is an essential read for all those studying, researching and working in urban geography, sustainability assessment, urban planning, urban sociology and politics, sustainable development and environmental studies.

Accessible and engaging, the book examines the 'old' sustainability of the past and looks to the future, considering how economic, ecological and social sustainability should be defined if we are to solve the entwined environmental, economic and social crises. It considers if meaningful sustainability is the same as a 'sustainable development' based on endless growth, examining the difficult but central issues of overpopulation and overconsumption that drive unsustainability. The book also explores the central role played by society's worldview and ethics, along with humanity's most dangerous characteristic - denial. Finally, it looks to the future, discussing the 'appropriate' technology needed for sustainability, and suggesting nine key solutions.

This book provides a much-needed comprehensive discussion of what sustainability means for students, policy makers and all those interested in a sustainable future.