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Urban Environmental Management
UEM Components
Urban Economy and the Industrial Sector
Urban Planning and Development
Urban Communities and Participation
Special Focus
Bibliographies
Country Specific Documents
Urban Environmental Management
Highlighting the basic issues and interdisciplinarity of urban environments, and cities in the big picture.
Introduction: Urban Environmental Management
Networking for Urban Environments
WRI: World Resources 1996-97
- Focus on Urban Environment
Three components of Environmental Planning
Environmental Planning and Management (EPM) Guidebook
Environmental Impact Assessment
Major Issues in Designing Programmes to Improve Environmental Quality in Cities
The City and the Natural Environment
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Professor Joel Tarr
Rapid Urban Environmental Assessment
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Nathaniel von Einsedel
Book Reviews
SUSTAINING CITIES: Environmental Planning and Management in Urban Design
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Josef Leitman
UEM Components
Information, health, water, architecture ... how do they all blend into the urban environment?
Environmental Management Tools
Information and Urban environments
Urban Health and Environment: The Indian Scene
Water, water everywhere ...
Slide Show: Environmentally sensitive buildings in the tropics
Anthills and green buildings
Air Pollutant Removal By House Plants
Urban Planning and Development
Everything starts with a plan, a vision.
The Use of Space in the Information/Communication Age - Processing the Unplannable
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Urban Economy and the Industrial Sector
Going beyond the physical environment to understand the key process and pressures on an urban area.
Eco-Controlling for Environmental Management
Implementing an Environmental Management System (ISO 14001)
EIA: Policies for Creating Environmentally Sound Industries
Report by the Committee on Kinki Industrial Structure for the 21st Century:
Urban Environments
Urban Communities and Participation
But it is and will always be, the ordinary citizen and the community that will have the final word. How can this be induced and implemented?
Urban Lifestyles: Understanding the Green Consumer.
Notes on "Quality of Life"
Community Groups and Planning Action: The Need for Citizen's Participation in Decision Making
Monitoring and Evaluation: Encouraging Participation
Essential Activities for Community Participation
Participatory Action Research: A menu of methods
Participatory learning techniques
Ten Steps in Building People's Organizations
Homogeneity and Heterogeneity: What makes a community tick??
UCD: Getting Closer to the People
Facilitating Community Participation
Principles of Conflict Resolution.
Special Focus
Areas of focus identified by UEMRI as key to understanding the problems and prospects of urban areas an its effects on the global environment.
Trialogue between climate change, biodiversity and desertification
UEM and the Deep Blue Sea: Commemorating OCEAN98
Urban Environments and COP3
The Environmental Colours of Microfinance
Organizational, informational and electronic networking of NGOs
Special Theme:
Urban Governance
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Capacity Building
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Environmental Impact Assessment
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Local Agenda 21
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Nuclear Energy
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Sustainable Transportation
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Eco-Tourism
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Urban Waste Management
Special Theme:
Water Resources
Bibliographies
Read up and become armchair experts
The Urban Environment: A Sourcebook for the 1990s
Bibliography: Urban Environments
British Columbia Models of Community Participation and Examples of Management
Citizen Participation in Resource Management
Community and Sustainability
Composite Environmental Indices Project Reference List - Urban Issues
Country Specific Documents
Environmental information and country profiles on UEM issues
Chile:
CHIP Environmental Report
China P.R.:
Chongqing Urban Environment Project
Ecuador:
The Urban Environment: A Strategic Management Framework
Norway:
Urban environmental quality
UK:
Sussex University - Sustainable Cities Programme
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