The Water-Sustainable City: Science, Policy and Practice

by David Lewis Feldman

Cities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water from increasingly distant outlying rural areas, thus disrupting their social fabric and environment. In addition, increasing urbanization due to population growth, economic change, and sprawl places huge burdens upon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783478551
• ISBN13: 9781783478552
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 224 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.1" x 9.2"