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Sustainable Urban Water Environment

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  • Ashantha Goonetilleke
  • Tan Yigitcanlar
  • Godwin A. Ayoko
  • Prasanna Egodawatta

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This multi-disciplinary book provides practical solutions for safeguarding the sustainability of the urban water environment. Firstly, the importance of the urban water environment is highlighted and the major problems urban water bodies face and strategies to safeguard the water environment are explored. Secondly, the diversity of pollutants entering the water environment through stormwater runoff are discussed and modelling approaches for factoring in climate change and future urban and transport scenarios are proposed. Thirdly, by linking the concepts of sustainable urban ecosystems and sustainable urban and transport development, capabilities of two urban sustainability assessment models are demonstrated.

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  • Ashantha Goonetilleke & Tan Yigitcanlar & Godwin A. Ayoko & Prasanna Egodawatta, 2014. "Sustainable Urban Water Environment," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 14894.
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    7. Tan Yigitcanlar & Jamile Sabatini-Marques & Cibele Lorenzi & Nathalia Bernardinetti & Tatiana Schreiner & Ana Fachinelli & Tatiana Wittmann, 2018. "Towards Smart Florianópolis: What Does It Take to Transform a Tourist Island into an Innovation Capital?," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(12), pages 1-32, November.
    8. Raziyeh Teimouri & Sadasivam Karuppannan & Alpana Sivam & Ning Gu, 2019. "Social sustainability with Urban Green Space (UGS) planning," Journal of Advances in Humanities and Social Sciences, Dr. Yi-Hsing Hsieh, vol. 5(5), pages 236-247.
    9. Yigitcanlar, Tan & Han, Hoon & Kamruzzaman, Md. & Ioppolo, Giuseppe & Sabatini-Marques, Jamile, 2019. "The making of smart cities: Are Songdo, Masdar, Amsterdam, San Francisco and Brisbane the best we could build?," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    10. Kamruzzaman, Md. & Deilami, Kaveh & Yigitcanlar, Tan, 2018. "Investigating the urban heat island effect of transit oriented development in Brisbane," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 116-124.
    11. Tan Yigitcanlar & Md. Kamruzzaman & Suharto Teriman, 2015. "Neighborhood Sustainability Assessment: Evaluating Residential Development Sustainability in a Developing Country Context," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(3), pages 1-33, March.
    12. Szopik-Depczyńska, Katarzyna & Kędzierska-Szczepaniak, Angelika & Szczepaniak, Krzysztof & Cheba, Katarzyna & Gajda, Waldemar & Ioppolo, Giuseppe, 2018. "Innovation in sustainable development: an investigation of the EU context using 2030 agenda indicators," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 251-262.
    13. Amirafshar Vaeztavakoli & Azadeh Lak & Tan Yigitcanlar, 2018. "Blue and Green Spaces as Therapeutic Landscapes: Health Effects of Urban Water Canal Areas of Isfahan," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(11), pages 1-20, November.
    14. Yigitcanlar, Tan & Kamruzzaman, Md., 2018. "Does smart city policy lead to sustainability of cities?," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 73(C), pages 49-58.
    15. Fei Wang & Ning Gu, 2021. "Impact of ecological security on urban sustainability in Western China—A case study of Xi’an," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 48(5), pages 1314-1339, June.
    16. Tatyana Tolstykh & Leyla Gamidullaeva & Nadezhda Shmeleva & Yuri Lapygin, 2020. "Regional Development in Russia: An Ecosystem Approach to Territorial Sustainability Assessment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-22, August.
    17. Murat Yalçıntaş & Melih Bulu & Murat Küçükvar & Hamidreza Samadi, 2015. "A Framework for Sustainable Urban Water Management through Demand and Supply Forecasting: The Case of Istanbul," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(8), pages 1-18, August.

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