Towards A Liveable And Sustainable Urban Environment: Eco-cities In East Asia

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Towards A Liveable And Sustainable Urban Environment: Eco-cities In East Asia is written by Liang Fook Lye and published by World Scientific. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 981446662X (ISBN 10) and 9789814466622 (ISBN 13).

With cities rapidly encroaching onto surrounding lands, the notion of “eco-city” proposes an innovative yet pragmatic approach to designing, building and operating cities in a way that the destructive impact of human urban activity upon nature will be significantly reduced.This book comprises of papers from a workshop organized by the East Asian Institute on Eco-cities in East Asia on 27 February 2009 in Singapore. Contributed by scholars, officials and environmental specialists from Japan, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines, the papers focus on how individual governments in these countries undertake eco-city projects. The book also highlights best practices that are useful to policy makers and anyone else who seeks to learn from the experiences of other countries in order to reduce their ecological footprints.