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Urban Transformations

Sustainable Urban Development Through Resource Efficiency, Quality of Life and Resilience

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Editors:
  1. Sigrun Kabisch

    1. Department of Urban and Environment Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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  2. Florian Koch

    1. Department of Urban and Environment Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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  3. Erik Gawel

    1. Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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  4. Annegret Haase

    1. Department of Urban and Environment Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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  5. Sonja Knapp

    1. Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany

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  6. Kerstin Krellenberg

    1. Department of Urban and Environment Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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  7. Jaime Nivala

    1. Centre for Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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  8. Andreas Zehnsdorf

    1. Centre for Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

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  • The book contains contributions on technical and social and environmental solutions for implementing urban transformations. A benefit for the audience is easy access to research which has been realized in a broad array of disciplines and to widen the view on possible paths for sustainable urban transformations. The book contains three major parts besides the introduction and the outlook/reflection section
  • The book provides a well elaborated and deliberately framed understanding of urban transformations. Each of the three mentioned parts of the book deals with one of the main conceptual approaches which we perceive pivotal for our understanding of urban transformation – resource efficiency, resilience and quality of life. All chapters within one part closely relate to the respective conceptual frame. This leads to a high coherence between the articles of each chapter and allows the reader to get more comprehensive insights on the three parts resource ee communication across disciplinary boundaries visible and accessible for the reader
  • fficiency, resilience and quality of life
  • The book contains a mix of different case studies, theoretical works, as well as shorter articles which all deal with recent issues of urban transformations. This mix of contributions is carefully edited and contributes to a complex, yet straight-forward understanding of urban transformations. Therefore, the customer gets not only individual research results on urban environmental issues but also the result of interdisciplinary discussions and a conceptualization of urban transformations
  • This book presents interdisciplinary urban-environmental work in a specific way. Interdisciplinarity is provided by the chapters in different ways – be it through direct co-authorship of social and natural as well as technical scholars or through the deliberate hints towards anchor points of a chapter’s results for an interdisciplinary context. In doing so, the book combines different ways to mak

Part of the book series: Future City (FUCI, volume 10)

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The book addresses urban transformations towards sustainability in light of challenges of global urbanization processes and the consequences of global environmental change. The aim is to show that urban transformations only succeed if both innovative scientific solutions and practice-oriented governance approaches are developed. This assumption is addressed by providing theoretical insights and empirical evidence pointing particularly at 3 concepts or qualities which are determined here as being central for achieving urban sustainability: resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience. Urban case studies from several international research projects illustrate our conceptual approach of urban transformations towards sustainable development. Thus, the book reaches far beyond a mere additive description of single case studies. It incorporates the results of condensed synthesis, resulting from comparisons and evaluations. It provides, based on cross-cutting reflection of single casesand different scales and methods of analysis, general and transferable findings. They do not only consider the scientific sphere but deliberately go beyond it discussing transferability of knowledge into practice, governance options and the feasibility of policy strategies in order to pave the way for sustainable urban transformations to happen today and in the future.

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Conceptual Approaches of Sustainable Urban Transformations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Exploring the Extent, Selected Topics and Governance Modes of Urban Sustainability Transformations

      • Dieter Rink, Sigrun Kabisch, Florian Koch, Kerstin Krellenberg
      Pages 3-20

    3. Linking Transition Theories with Theories of Institutions – Implications for Sustainable Urban Infrastructures Between Flexibility and Stability

      • Norman Bedtke, Erik Gawel
      Pages 21-44

    4. Efficiency–Equity–Trade–Off as a Challenge for Shaping Urban Transformations

      • Erik Gawel, Christian Kuhlicke
      Pages 45-60

    5. On the Connection Between Urban Sustainability Transformations and Multiple Societal Crises

      • Annegret Haase, Norman Bedtke, Chloe Begg, Erik Gawel, Dieter Rink, Manuel Wolff
      Pages 61-76

    6. How to Measure Progress Towards an Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable City? Reflections on Applying the Indicators of Sustainable Development Goal 11 in Germany and India

      • Florian Koch, Sohail Ahmad
      Pages 77-90

  3. Urban Resources and Governance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-92
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    2. Sustainable Transformation of Urban Water Infrastructure in Amman, Jordan – Meeting Residential Water Demand in the Face of Deficient Public Supply and Alternative Private Water Markets

      • Christian Klassert, Erik Gawel, Katja Sigel, Bernd Klauer
      Pages 93-115

    3. The TEEB Approach Towards Sustainable Urban Transformations: Demonstrating and Capturing Ecosystem Service Values

      • Bernd Hansjürgens, Miriam Brenck, Robert Bartz, Ingo Kowarik
      Pages 117-132

    4. Green Infrastructure for Increased Resource Efficiency in Urban Water Management

      • Jaime Nivala, Andreas Zehnsdorf, Manfred van Afferden, Roland A. Müller
      Pages 133-143

    5. Sustainable Urban Water Governance – Main Aims, Challenges and Institutional Approaches in Germany and Beyond

      • Moritz Reese, Erik Gawel
      Pages 145-171

    6. Transitioning the Heat Supply System – Challenges with Special Focus on Bioenergy in the Context of Urban Areas

      • Volker Lenz, Cornelia Rönsch, Kay Schaubach, Sebastian Bohnet, Daniela Thrän
      Pages 173-196

    7. From Shrinkage to Regrowth: The Nexus Between Urban Dynamics, Land Use Change and Ecosystem Service Provision

      • Annegret Haase, Manuel Wolff, Dieter Rink
      Pages 197-219

    8. Potentials of Urban Brownfields for Improving the Quality of Urban Space

      • Ellen Banzhaf, Thomas Arndt, Jan Ladiges
      Pages 221-232

  4. Quality of Life and Ecosystem services

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-234
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    2. Local Residential Quality from an Interdisciplinary Perspective: Combining Individual Perception and Micrometeorological Factors

      • Sigrun Kabisch, Maximilian Ueberham, Uwe Schlink, Daniel Hertel, Abdelrhman Mohamdeen
      Pages 235-255

    3. Socio-Spatial Distribution of Airborne Outdoor Exposures – An Indicator for Environmental Quality, Quality of Life, and Environmental Justice: The Case Study of Berlin

      • Annegret Kindler, Heinz-Josef Klimeczek, Ulrich Franck
      Pages 257-279

    4. What Really Matters in Green Infrastructure for the Urban Quality of Life? Santiago de Chile as a Showcase City

      • Ellen Banzhaf, Sonia M. Reyes-Paecke, Francisco de la Barrera
      Pages 281-300

    5. Do Urban Biodiversity and Urban Ecosystem Services Go Hand in Hand, or Do We Just Hope It Is That Easy?

      • Sonja Knapp, Dagmar Haase, Stefan Klotz, Nina Schwarz
      Pages 301-312
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Urban and Environment Sociology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Sigrun Kabisch, Florian Koch, Annegret Haase, Kerstin Krellenberg

  • Department of Economics, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Erik Gawel

  • Department of Community Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research-UFZ, Halle (Saale), Germany

    Sonja Knapp

  • Centre for Environmental Biotechnology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

    Jaime Nivala, Andreas Zehnsdorf

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Urban Transformations

  • Book Subtitle: Sustainable Urban Development Through Resource Efficiency, Quality of Life and Resilience

  • Editors: Sigrun Kabisch, Florian Koch, Erik Gawel, Annegret Haase, Sonja Knapp, Kerstin Krellenberg, Jaime Nivala, … Andreas Zehnsdorf

  • Series Title: Future City

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59324-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59323-4Published: 22 January 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72894-0Published: 22 January 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59324-1Published: 08 January 2018

  • Series ISSN: 1876-0899

  • Series E-ISSN: 1876-0880

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 384

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Applied Ecology, Urban Studies/Sociology, Environmental Management, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Economics, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts

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