Building Sustainable Cities - Social, Economic and Environmental Factors

This book describes a broad view of sustainability as a crucial factor for the success of its implementation. Not only the environmental aspects of the sustainable cities´ development are reviewed but the economic and social aspects of it, as highlighted in the UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 (make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable).

Nowadays, researchers, students, and stakeholders are highly involved in sustainability issues. Because of this, they need a guiding document to help them develop and implement sustainability programs at the level of companies and institutions.

In this book, the authors discuss and explain basic concepts of sustainability-related to social, economic and environmental aspects, as well as strategies for its implementation.

Aldo Alvarez-Risco is a Full-Time Researcher at the Universidad de San Martín de Porres in Perú in Sustainability Unit Research. He is also PhD at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Doctor in Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Master in Pharmacology and Pharmacist at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and Master Pharmaceutical Care at Universidad de Granada.

Marc A. Rosen is a Professor at University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, where he served as founding Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. He is Editor-in-Chief of various journals and Director of Oshawa Power and Utilities Corporation. Dr. Rosen is an active teacher and researcher in energy technology, sustainable energy and the environmental impact of energy systems.

Shyla Del-Aguila-Arcentales is a Researcher in Sustainability area, and a Pharmacist at Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana. Her research is in Bio-business, Audit, Environmental Management, Import-Export Management, which is linked to the ancestral knowledge of medicinal plants in the jungle regarding their traditional uses.

Dora Marinova is a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council's Panel on Centres of Research Excellence in Population Health. Her research interests cover innovation models, including the evolving global green system of innovation and the emerging area of sustainometrics. Dora is Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Education Economics and Development (published by Inderscience, Switzerland) and Transformations: An Interdisciplinary Journal (published by EBSCO, USA).