Environment, Construction and Sustainable Development

This book offers a complete overview of the issues affecting the construction industry in the light of environmental concern and change. The two-volume set is divided into an analysis of the environmental issues and an analysis of engineering solutions.
* Wide-ranging, comprehensive, structured treatment of a vast subject
* The only book to cover both theory and practice across all relevant issues
* International coverage, with case studies from Europe, America, Asia and Africa

Environment, construction and sustainable development is an important contribution to the worldwide debate on sustainable development and the first to focus comprehensively on construction. It takes note of historical precedents and analyses future prospects in the light of inequitable use of resources and increasing demographic and socio-economic problems.

Volume 1 gives a detailed treatment of built development in a variety of geographical situations. Volume 2 explains further how each field of civil engineering can be related directly to natural resources and the environment. The two volumes are split into four parts dealing with effects of construction on resources, describing examples of these themes, identifying appropriate practical construction solutions and recognizing the economic and political realities that are faced in their implementation. It gives new emphasis to established solutions in recurrent situations and an integrated analysis of new options available for tackling problems in sustainable development.

This book will appeal to students and post-graduates of geography or civil engineering, and professionals in land use, transportation planning and earth and environment sciences.