World population and the number of city dwellers are steadily growing. Globalization and digitalization lead to an increased competition for skilled and creative labor and other economic resources. This is true not only for firms, but increasingly also for cities. The book elaborates on...

PART I: Background and Concept -- 1. Innovative Environmental Management Tools For the Agri-Food Chain -- PART II: Integrated Management Systems (IMS) -- 2. The Integration of Quality Management and Environmental Management Systems -- 3. A Model of Integrated Management System for Agri-Food...

Introduction -- Current Situation in the Study Area -- Feasibility Evaluation Sewage Treatment with New Technology -- Comprehensive Evaluation Model of Socio-economic and Environmental Policies -- Comprehensive Simulation Results Analysis -- Conclusion.

Examines the urban development and the policy and planning processes that have resulted from the socio-economic, political, and institutional transformations characterizing the move to markets and democracy. This book illustrates the urban phenomena with case studies, sensitive to historical...

Introduction -- Part I: Complexity, Cognition and Cities -- 1. What makes cities complex? -- 2. Evolving a Plan: Design and Planning with Complexity -- 3. Self-organization and design as complementary pair -- 4. Cultivating complexity: The need for a shift in cognition -- 5. The fourth...

Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Globalized Space Versus Refuge of Locality? Beyond the Global Cities discourse -- 3 Rethinking the City: Actor-Network Theory and the Creation of Urban Connections -- 4 Urban Intensities: Architecture, Design, Affect -- 5 Rethinking Innovation: The Urban...

The book addresses the sustainability of cities in the context of sustainability science and its application to the city boundary. In doing so it investigates all the components of a city on the basis of sustainability criteria. To achieve sustainability it is essential to adopt an integrated...

This book contains the contributions presented at the international workshop 'The Dynamics of Complex Urban Systems: an interdisciplinary approach' held in Ascona, Switzerland in November 2004. Experts from several disciplines outline a conceptual framework for modeling and forecasting the...