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Communication across and integration of disciplines in the urban-water sector seems today more imperative than ever before. Water is a strategic and shrinking resource. It is probably the world''s most valuable resource and clean water has even been touted as the ''next oil''. Control of water - from access to management -  has always been a

Communication across and integration of disciplines in the urban-water sector seems today more imperative than ever before. Water is a strategic and shrinking resource. It is probably the world's most valuable resource and clean water has even been touted as the 'next oil'. Control of water - from access to management - has always been a highly politicised affair. The complexities that surround it are proving to be major challenges as the world continues to urbanise and human habits of mass consumption and pollution deplete natural resources and destroy natural eco-systems. Water issues are increasingly high on the international agenda – particularly in desert, tropical and sub-tropical regions. Water and Urban Development Paradigmsincludes the papers presented at the International Conference on Water and Urban Development Paradigms: Towards an Integration of Engineering, Design and Management Approaches (Leuven, Belgium, 15-19 September 2008), and intends to bridge the gap between the disciplines of water management, ecology and the approaches of engineering, urban design and spatial planning. The volume explores a number of themes, discussing the historical relationship between water systems and human settlements, and related management problems regarding urban floods, water use and water sanitation.The aim of Water and Urban Development Paradigms is to contribute to the better integration of approaches currently considered in the separate disciplines of water management, water engineering, urban planning and design, and aquatic ecology - and lead to the emergence of new, more effective water and urban development paradigms. The book will be of special interest to scientists and professionals in the fields of architecture, urban planning, water resources engineering, water supply and sanitation, flood protection, among related fields; to public and non-governmental organizations active in urban planning and the water sector, and to university teachers and students in architecture, urbanism and planning, water and sanitation engineering.

Communication across and integration of disciplines in the urban-water sector seems today more imperative than ever before. Water is a strategic and shrinking resource. It is probably the world''s most valuable resource and clean water has even been touted as the ''next oil''. Control of water - from access to management -  has always been a

How forest urbanism can address the contemporary socio-ecological crisisA radical redefinition of how humanity occupies the earth — through forests, agriculture, and settlement — and rearticulates environmental stewardship by intertwining ecologies and urbanisms, this publication brings together essays by scholars in forestry, urbanism and other disciplines, designers, practitioners and policy makers. It explores the multifaceted notion of forest urbanisms, including a conceptual framing essay; contributions from the sciences such as bioscience engineering, architecture, urbanism and public policy; contemporary forest urbanism projects and explorative essays that make tangible an agenda for the 21st century. With descriptions of both built and non-built projects from around the globe, the essays show how such projects substantiate a radical shift in humankind’s occupation of the world, where ecologies and urbanisms converge and agriculture, forests, and settlements are integrated.Forest Urbanisms extends growing research on a new nature–culture relationship, the necessity for trees in cities, and a rebalancing of ecology and urbanism.Contributing authors: Chiara Cavalieri (UC Louvain), Cecil Koninendijk (Nature Based Solutions Institute), Rik De Vreese (European Forest Institute), Bart Muys (KU Leuven), Colleen Murphy-Dunning (Yale University), Bureau Bas Smets, Kongjian Yu (Turenscape), Wim Wambecq and Joris Moonen (MIDI), Embyá Paisagens & Ecossistemas, EFFEKT, TCL, aldayjover architecture and landscape, Björn Bracke (KU Leuven / Kollektif Landscape), Koenraad Danneels (KU Leuven), Marlène Boura (Biotope Environnement, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale), Swagata Das (KU Leuven), Kamni Gill (University of Manitoba), Alejandra Parra-Ortiz (University of Montreal), Gina Serrano-Aragundi (EPA Barranquilla Verde), Jörg Rekittke (University College Dublin), Takako Tajima (University of Southern California), Jamie Vanucchi (Cornell University), Maria Goula (Cornell University)Ebook available in Open Access.