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Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation - Manual for Practice and Study (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
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Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation - Manual for Practice and Study (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
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These days human beings have a profound influence on aspects of the
planetary ecosystem, e.g. on climate change and biodiversity, to
name only two. This manual is intended to help practitioners, who
are dealing with human-based rural and urban settlement-ecosystems,
in the key steps towards their realization (design, implementation,
and operation) and helpful for all, who are concerned about
ensuring their practical sustainability. The ecosystem-approach is
holistic and integrative, encompassing various disciplines like
architecture, landscape architecture, environmental engineering,
social sciences, life sciences, ecology, and management. It also
considers issues such as energy-savings, ecological cycles, reuse,
natural resources, socio-cultural background, real participation,
and holistic quality management. Thus it not only explains the
general concept, the steps of realization and the respective
involved stakeholders, but also gives hints and tools for
practitioners. The information, recommendations and tools are
directed to the following target groups, among others: * Local
planning authorities (giving hints for the procedure and the
involved stakeholders) * Designers (holistic approach, procedures,
tools) * Regulatory bodies, licensing and financing authorities
(requirements for approach and procedures) * Construction and
implementing firms and institutions (recommendations, tools) *
Operating bodies (hints for operation, tools) The experiences are
based on a joint German-Ghanaian program at Valley View University,
the biggest private university in Ghana, intended to help realize
the vision of a truly holistic ecological university. It was
financed originally by the German Ministry of Education and
Research and recently by the German Ministry for the Environment in
the frame of the Climate Change Initiative of the Federal
Government of Germany.
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