Stedelijke Milieuplanning Ebook

Originally published in 1997, this text provides a groundbreaking overview of innovative methods and techniques for measuring and managing the environmental effects of urban land uses on other urban activities. This second edition is fully revised and updated. Originally published in 1997, Urban Environmental Planning provides a groundbreaking overview of innovative methods and techniques for measuring and managing the environmental effects of urban land uses on other urban activities. Fully revised and updated, this second edition brings together a team of leading environmental planners and policy makers from the US, UK, Europe and SE Asia to address the central questions confronting sustainable urban development. Typical questions include: How can you measure and manage the negative environmental effects of intrusive urban activities such as manufacturing and transport on sensitive land uses including residential and recreational areas? Can a balance be found between reducing these effects through means such as separating conflicting land uses? While other sources identify the need for effective programmes to improve urban environmental quality, this volume describes and assesses analytical methods and implementing programmes practised by leading communities around the world.

Sustainable development requires new behaviours with regard to the environment, both in the natural and artificial spheres, with the aim of protecting the well-being of present and future generations. It is in this sense that international documents and Brazilian domestic legislation have altered the discipline of the environment and cities in order to guarantee the realisation of fundamental human rights. In this context, planning has become an essential democratic tool for public management, as it makes it possible to establish priorities, recognise local needs and provide solutions that are in line with the reality of each region, meeting the most essential needs of the population. Environmental planning and urban planning, by proposing solutions to the problems of environmental degradation and urban disorder, are indispensable instruments for realising the principle of human dignity and the fundamental and social rights guaranteed in the Brazilian Constitution of 1988.