Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 10th Urban Environment Symposium [Paperback]

The 10th Urban Environment Symposium (10UES) was held on 911 June 2010 in Gothenburg, Sweden. UES aims at providing a forum on the science and practices required to support pathways to a positive and sustainable future in the urban environment. The UES series is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global Sustainability (The AGS).

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Papers by leading experts are presented in sections on ?Sustainable Urban Develoment and Urban Planning; Air Quality and Human Health; Urban Waters; and Urban Soil Contamination and Treatment.

SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN PLANNING: Transport and Environmental Regulation -Common attitudes and social change, by A. Abidi.- ?Environmental impact assessment of urban mobility plan: a methodology including socioeconomic consequences, by? P. Mestayer, A. Abidi, M.Andr? et al..- Assessment model of territorial articulation in rural areas. Application to four Spanish comarcas, by A. Tol?n-Becerra, I. Otero-Pastor, X. Lastra-Bravo, P. P?rez-Mart?nez.- ?Model of territorial distribution of CO2 emissions reduction target in the transport sector, by A. Tol?n-Becerra, P. P?rez-Mart?nez, X. Lastra-Bravo, I. Otero-Pastor.- Impact of land use and transport policies on carbon emissions in London and Wider South East Region of UK, by A. Namdeo, G. Mitchell, T. Hargreaves.- Carbon sequestration in shrinking cities  potential or a drop in the ocean?, by M.W. Strohbach, E. Arnold, S. Vollrodt, D. Haase.- Urban Sprawl, Food Security and Sustainability of Yogyakarta City, Indonesia, by Irham.- ?The Local Food System as a Strategy for the Rural-Urban Fringe Planning  a Pathway towards Sustainable City Regions, by D.W. Adrianto.- AIR QUALITY AND HUMAN HEALTH: A case study of chemical weather forecasting in the area of Vienna, Austria, by M. Hirtl, M. Piringer, B.C. Kr?ger.- ?Micrometeorological effects on urban sound propagation: A numerical and explƒY