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Sustainable Development and Planning: V contains the proceedings of the latest in a series of biennial conferences on the topic of sustainable regional development that began in 2003. Organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology, the conference series provides a common forum for all scientists specialising in the range of subjects included within sustainable development and planning. It has become apparent that planners, environmentalists, architects, engineers, policy makers, and economists have to work together in order to ensure that planning and development can meet our present needs without compromising future generations.
The topics covered by the papers included in Sustainable Development and Planning: V include: Regional Planning; City Planning; Sustainability in the Built Environment; Cultural Heritage; Environmental Management; Resources Management; Social and Political Issues; Rural Developments; Sustainable Solutions in Developing Countries; Transportation; Container Maritime Transport; Energy Resources.
Section 1: Regional planning
- Maritime and coastal spatial planning: the case of Greece and the Mediterranean
- Limits and possibilities for the promotion of sustainable development: the case of Northwest Region Fluminense
- Abu Dhabi efforts in facing global warming challenges through urban planning
- Primary sector waste indicators for regional planning
- Promoting sustainable development in the minerals industry: the phosphate project in Saudi Arabia
- Towards a sustainable system: application of temporal analysis on flood risk management
Section 2: City planning
- The small world of stakeholder groups: cascading concepts for urban change
- The strength of the urban form
- Future projects on water resources for a sustainable urban development: a case study of Surat city of India
- Conceptual spatio-temporal data modelling and land use change
Section 3: Sustainability in the built environment
- Real estate crisis and sustainability in Spain
- Urban sprawl: can it be sustainable? An analysis on energy performances of different urban forms
- Sustainable aspects of traditional Ottoman neighbourhoods in modern Turkish urban settlements
- From scoring to orienting: the development of a compass for evaluating sustainable urban development at the neighbourhood scale
- Whole-building design for a green school building in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
- Eco-industrial parks: technologies and procedures for low environmental impacts
- Overview of current energy policy and standards in the building sector in Iran
- Integrating passive cooling techniques for sustainable building performance in hot climates with reference to the UAE
- Visualization of the thermal environments of RC and composite-wall constructions
- Lowering the sink temperature for a desert solar air conditioning system
- Innovative approaches to urban water management in developing countries
- A study of the impacts of existing artificial optical radiation at student housing sites
- An overview of safety effects on pedestrians at modern roundabouts
- Re-design for change: environmental and financial assessment of a dynamic renovation approach for residential buildings
- Development of a sustainable construction system for temporary structures
Section 4: Cultural heritage
- The impact of urban sprawl on the heritage areas through the urban fabric of cities
- Investigating the sustainable fabric of the historical city of Marvast
- Evaluation of the conservation activities in the historical settlement Tenedos-Bozcaada Island
- Literary tourism as a promoter of cultural heritage
- The soundscape of cities: a new layer in city renewal
Section 5: Environmental management
- The evaluation of ecological sustainable development capacities in Kashan: an historic city of Iran
- Trading system of environmental loads: interregional cap and trade system using an ecological footprint
- A scale for architectural design compactness: a mathematical approach
- Bumblebees as potential indicators for the evaluation of habitat quality
- Environmental management options for mitigation of congestion impacts in the Ataturk Urban forest of Bursa, Turkey
- Monte Carlo analysis and its application within the valuation of technologies
- Assessment method for the ecological status of Estonian coastal waters based on submerged aquatic vegetation
- Evaluation of oil shale mining heritage in Estonia
- Remediation of coastal sandy soils polluted by petroleum leaks
- Integrated sustainable anaerobic treatment for low strength wastewater
Section 6: Resources management
- A national parkless Northern Ireland: the tourism resource paradox and the implications for sustainability
- The development of seaweed farming as a sustainable coastal management method in Indonesia: an opportunities and constraints assessment
- Economic valuation of sport fisheries in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico
Section 7: Social and political issues
- Sustainability in projects: an analysis of relevant sustainability aspects in the project management process based on the three pillars model
- Public involvement in sustainable development: a public participation process in the Sidi Gaber railway station development project, Alexandria, Egypt
- Asset management of public facilities in an era of climate change: application of the dynamic computable general equilibrium model
- Shared responsibility for post-Kyoto
- Paying the price: nationalisation of private property or restoring the commons?
- Participation of children: an alternative to building new cities
- Reducing greenhouse gases using the pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) system
Section 8: Rural developments
- Assessment of a sustainable rural development model: best practices in Comala, Colima, Mexico
- Irrigation and territory in the southeast of Spain: evolution and future perspectives within new hydrological planning
- The relationship between rice and the housing of rice-growers in the north of Iran
- The use of donkeys for transport: the case of Khartoum State, Sudan
Section 9: Sustainable solutions in developing countries
- A policy framework for sustainability in developing countries: applying value chain theory to a society's hierarchy of needs
- Evaluating stakeholders preferences: reconciling heritage and sustainability
- Empirical analysis of the linkages between the manufacturing and other sectors of the Nigerian economy
- Challenging limitations for achieving decentralization in terms of participatory planning in developing countries, case study: Egypt
- Nigeria's industrial development: issues and challenges in the new millennium
Section 10: Transportation
- Planning sustainable e-mobility
- Functional and dysfunctional urban mass transportation systems in the greater Gauteng region of South Africa
- The second Mexican toll road program: learning from the experience
- Calibration of a method for selecting roundabouts as a function of the inner island treatment
- Signal setting in an urban area: a procedure with day-to-day dynamic and stability constraints
- Optimal planning of selective waste collection
Section 11: Container maritime transport (Special session chaired by F. Russo)
- Container maritime transport on an international scale: a procedure for aggregate estimation of demand variables
- Container maritime transport on an international scale: a model to simulate the demand flow in the Mediterranean basin
- Container maritime transport on an international scale: a choice model of service and hub port
- Container maritime transport on an international scale: data envelopment analysis for transhipment port
Section 12: Energy resources
- Financing sources and policies for renewable energies
- Energy and the implication of residential cooling in hot climates: a case study for developing an effective solution for residential cooling energy demand in Kuwait
- Enhanced aquifer thermal energy storage for cooling and heating of Shinshu University building using a nested well system
- Modeling energy savings in low income residencies
- Fuel economy and emissions analysis of conventional diesel, diesel-electric hybrid, biodiesel and natural gas powered transit buses
- Street lighting power reduction potential in Lithuanian cities
- Biomass pellets production with industrial and agro-industrial wastes
- Bioethanol production from oilseed rape straw hydrolysate by free and immobilised cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Latent heat thermal energy storage systems in lightweight construction: review of PCM applications in Solar Decathlon houses
- Testing for oil saving technological changes in ARDL models of demand for oil in G7 and BRICs
