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Human Settlements, Urbanization, Smart Sector Development, and Future Outlook, edited by Giuseppe T. Cirella

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non fiction

Human Settlements

electronic resource

dictionaries

1267751745

edited by Giuseppe T. Cirella

Springer eBooks.Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements,, 2198-2554

Urbanization, Smart Sector Development, and Future Outlook

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 interlace the 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.--, Provided by publisher

Human settlements: Urban challenges and future development -- Adaptive knowledge sharing in turbulent times: Urban disaster risk and knowledge management -- Understanding the disaster risk of human settlements: Case research -- Research and development within public transport systems -- Energy transition in maritime transport: Solutions and costs -- Sustainability and renewable energy education: Children of the next generation -- Fostering sustainable development: Green energy policy in the European Union and the United States -- Shelterbelt planning in agriculture: Application from Bulgaria -- Synchronizing agricultural trade regulations: Case study from Subang regency -- Environmental safety in the Sustainable Development Goals: Public survey -- Sustainable Development Goals, Conflict, and Fragility: Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon -- The Pearl's social and environmental failures: Development challenges -- Changing dynamics with COVID-19: Future outlook.