Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation

A. Otte 
 R. Perfler 
 L. Richard 
 D. Simmering

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dc.contributor.author	A. Otte R. Perfler L. Richard D. Simmering
dc.contributor.editor	Gunther Geller Detlef Glu¨cklich
dc.date.accessioned	2019-03-26T06:23:04Z
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-22T06:48:38Z
dc.date.available	2019-03-26T06:23:04Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-22T06:48:38Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-642-28261-4
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.215.13.25/handle/123456789/57755
dc.description	These days human beings have an incredible influence on the planetary ecosystem, on climate change, on biodiversity, to name only two. Many of the ecosystems on the planet nowadays are more or less dominated by humans and that is true especially for the ecosystems, where men are living in, rural and urban settlements. Therefore it is most important to design and operate this kind of systems in a way that is really sustainable, which means long-term-functioning in harmony with the planetary system and human and non-human its inhabitants. How to design and operate elements of the human ecosystems like houses, bridges, roads, sewer lines, factories is known to engineers, architects, managers. There is some understanding about ecosystems, especially natural ones and partly about their design and operation. However there is a deficiency in understanding rural and urban settlements as human ecosystems in a holistic way and nearly no experience in designing and operating them in a holistic and sustainable way. This is especially true for the area of information, its understanding and application in rural and urban settlements. Some of the aspects being acceptance, commitment, decision-making, quality management, organizational structures, sociocultural background, training and education, to name only some few. To try to close this gap this manual gives an explanation of the general principles of this rural and urban ecosystems and some holistic concepts and provides some methods, procedures and tools for their design, construction and operation. The experiences it is utilising are based principally on a practical showcase, namely the ecological development of Valley View University (VVU), the biggest private university in Ghana, and its campus.
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Springer	en_US
dc.subject	Operation	en_US
dc.title	Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US