Human Settlements: Urbanization, Smart Sector Development, and Future Outlook (Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements)

✍ Scribed by Giuseppe T. Cirella (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The answers to the questions of why and how people live where they live as well as how they maintain and integrate with one another are fundamental human settlement issues rooted in history and culture. Human settlements are historically linked to resource availability, fortification, and the mythos of civilizations. Cities play a central role in redefining the interface between human beings and nature. They have revolutionized the human experience by taming natural surroundings and building environments that are human-centric―often narrowing human life outside the experience of wilderness or the untamed. This book is divided into three parts, it examines urban development trends, explores perspectives in energy efficiency and agriculture security, and considers policy development and future scenarios in human-nature relations. It is a compendium of multidisciplinary work that challenges the directions of modernity and offers reference to alternatives. Authors come from a diverse background and international context to address common overarching theories facing current geography-specific problems. An interconnected overtone of the book attempts to link accelerated urbanization and settlement location to how societies are maintained and integrated. Human settlements are shaped by human ecology and the relationship between humans and their interaction with their environment. Two sectors central to human survival are specifically explored: energy and agriculture. Cutting-edge, smart development looks at the latest findings that reflect the on-going debate facing these sectors. A human settlement metric is envisioned in terms of the past, present, and future. This book is a unique attempt to combine a rethinking about human settlements for scientists, policy-makers, public officials, and people committed to improving urban life, society-wide. Possible agents to resolving human settlement problems include international cooperation and various mechanisms that interlacethe international community. Methodological and applied aspects of sustainable management focus on topics such as adaptive knowledge sharing, renewable energy, climate change, agricultural planning, and policy development. An emphasis on scientific and technological advancement, from a bottom-up mapping of society, elucidates a better understanding of the role of knowledgeable societies in which need is considered alongside how such need can be sustained―advancing towards a more promising future.

✦ Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Foreword
Preface
Contents
Editor and Contributors
Abbreviations
Urban Development Trends
Human Settlements: Urban Challenges and Future Development
1 Human Ecology: Urban Morphology and Landscape Ecology
2 Green Cities, Urban Agriculture, and Sustainable Energy
3 Human Settlements in Relation to Energy Needs
4 Agriculture and Human Settlements
5 Cities: The North Versus the South
6 Informal Settlements: Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
References
Adaptive Knowledge Sharing in Turbulent Times: Urban Disaster Risk and Knowledge Management
1 Introduction
2 Knowledge Sharing in the Age of Complexity
2.1 Knowledge Sharing Channels, Knowledge Sharing Behavior and Locality, and Multiplicity of Knowledge
3 DRRM and Social Networks
4 Case Research from Marikina City
5 Conclusion: Key Features of an Adaptive Knowledge Sharing in a Complex DRRM System
References
Understanding the Disaster Risk of Human Settlements: Case Research
1 Introduction
2 Conceptual Framework: PAR Model
3 How Progression of Vulnerability Affects Losses: Two Cases
3.1 Aceh Tsunami
3.2 Haiti Earthquake
4 Problem Solution
5 Conclusion
References
Research and Development Within Public Transport Systems
1 Introduction
2 Sustainable Transport: Background
3 Systematic Review of Public Transportation Systems
3.1 Public Survey
3.2 Behavior Patterns Applied to Different Types of Public Transport to the Environment and Society
4 Conclusion
References
Perspectives in Energy Efficiency and Agriculture Security
Energy Transition in Maritime Transport: Solutions and Costs
1 Introduction
2 Hybrid and Electric Ship Propulsion
3 Costs of Implementing Hybrid Propulsion
4 Cost of Implementing On-Shore Power
5 Conclusion: Electrification of Ports
References
Sustainability and Renewable Energy Education: Children of the Next Generation
1 Introduction
2 Environmental Education: Children of the Next Generation
3 Academy—Holon Institute of Technology
3.1 Faculty of Engineering
3.2 Social Involvement Unit at the Dean of Students Office
4 Action Learning Course
4.1 Solar Energy
4.2 Wind Energy
4.3 Waste and Recycling
4.4 Soil Contamination
5 “Green Ambassadors” Methodology
6 Conclusion
References
Fostering Sustainable Development: Green Energy Policy in the European Union and the United States
1 Introduction
2 Climatological Rationale
2.1 Regulations and Policies
2.2 Emissions Trading
2.3 OECD Climate Focus
3 European Regulations and Policies Related to Decreasing Emissions
4 American Environmental Regulations and Policies on Emission Reduction
5 Conclusion and Comparative Findings
References
Shelterbelt Planning in Agriculture: Application from Bulgaria
1 Introduction
2 Overview of Agriculture in Bulgaria and History of Windbreak Construction
3 Agricultural Landscape and Climate Change
4 Windbreak Characteristics
5 Windbreaks Planning
6 Conclusion
References
Synchronizing Agricultural Trade Regulations: Case Study from Subang Regency
1 Introduction
2 Decentralization in Indonesia
3 Data Collection
4 Case Study Results
4.1 Supply Chain Analysis
4.2 Indonesian Regulation and Policies of Food Crops and Horticulture
4.3 Strategic Planning and Program Development
5 Budgetary Allocation of Indonesia’s Agriculture Sector
6 Conclusion
References
Policy Development and Future Scenarios
Environmental Safety in the Sustainable Development Goals: Public Survey
1 Global Outlook: Energy, Air Pollution, and Climate Change in the Sustainable Development Goals
2 Public Survey on Environmental Safety: Empirical Case Research from Hungary
2.1 Methodology of the Survey
2.2 Household and Lifestyle of the Respondents
2.3 Results on Energy Preference, Air Pollution, and Climate Change
3 Comparative Results
3.1 Results on Environmental Safety
3.2 Comparative Differences
4 Conclusion
References
Sustainable Development Goals, Conflict, and Fragility: Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon
1 Introduction
2 Theorization of Change
3 SDG 16: Addressing Conflict, Fragility, and Instability
4 Violent Conflict, Fragility, and Vulnerability as Hindrances of SDGs
4.1 The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon
4.2 The Anglophone Crisis Versus the Achievement of SDGs
5 Attempts to Address the Anglophone Crisis Within the SDGs Framework
6 Conclusion
References
The Pearl’s Social and Environmental Failures: Development Challenges
1 Introduction: Projects of Doom
2 Literature Review
2.1 Social Failures: Urban Design and Sociology
2.2 Environmental Failures
2.3 Qatar’s New Developments
3 Case Methodology
4 Piecing Together the Solutions
4.1 Social Theme
4.2 Environmental Theme
5 Conclusion
References
Changing Dynamics with COVID-19: Future Outlook
1 Introduction
2 COVID-19: Demographic Outlook to De-Urbanize Mega-Cities
3 Post-COVID-19: Steps Forward
4 Conclusion
References
Glossary
Index