Urban Sustainability and River Restoration: Green and Blue Infrastructure

Name: Urban Sustainability and River Restoration: Green and Blue Infrastructure
Brand: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
SKU: 9781119244967
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By (author): Katia Perini Paola Sabbion

Urban Sustainability and River Restoration: Green and Blue Infrastructure considers the integration of green and blue infrastructure in cities as a strategy useful for acting on causes and effects of environmental and ecological issues. River restoration projects are unique opportunities for sustainable development and smart growth of communities, providing multiple environmental, economic, and social benefits.This book analyzes initiatives and actions carried out and developed to improve environmental conditions in cities and better understand the environmental impact of (and in) dense urban areas in the United States and in Europe. See more

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Weight: 703g
Dimensions: 168 x 246mm
Publication Date: 03 Feb 2017
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781119244967

About Katia PeriniPaola Sabbion

Katia Perini is adjunct professor and postdoctoralresearch fellow at the Scuola Politecnica Università degli Studi di Genova Department of Architectural Sciences. Her research focuses on environmental sustainability and on integration of vegetation as means to restore the environmental quality of urban areas. She has been a guest researcher at the Delft University of Technology (CITG Department of Materials & Environment). She was selected as a Fulbright grantee under the Fulbright-Schuman Program with a research project regarding the sustainability of urban areas with New York City as case study; the research was conducted at the Urban Design Lab of the Earth Institute of Columbia University (NY USA). Paola Sabbion is lecturer and post-doc researcher at the University of Genoa Polytechnic School Department of Sciences for Architecture. She has researched degraded landscapes and was winner of a Research Fellowship at UrbanLab Municipality of Genoa Urban Planning Office with the advisory of Richard Burdett London School of Economics. Paola works as tutor at different international workshops to the students of the Master's degree in Landscape Architecture (i.e.: Workshop: Grossraschen Lake District Cottbus (Germany) in collaboration with IBA - Internationale Bauausstellung and Workshop: Mies van der Rohe: Mediterranean Cities in collaboration with UNIGE and UPC Barcelona). In 2012 Paola is winner of a PhD grant based on funds from MIUR (Ministero Istruzione Università Ricerca) by Italian government.