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A City in Blue and Green [electronic resource] : The Singapore Story / by Peter G. Rowe, Limin Hee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019Edition: 1st ed. 2019Description: IX, 152 p. 1 illus. online resourceContent type:
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  • 9789811395970
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 338.927 23
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Contents:
Introduction -- Early Days -- Visions of Clean and Green -- Water Resources and Independence -- Gardens, Parks and Green Reserves -- Ways Forward -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
In: Springer Nature eBookSummary: This open access book highlights Singapore's development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a liveable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about a unique and thoroughgoing approach to large-scale and potentially transferable water sustainability, within largely urbanized circumstances, which can be achieved, along with complementary roles of environmental conservation, ecology, public open-space management and the greening of buildings, together with infrastructural improvements.
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Introduction -- Early Days -- Visions of Clean and Green -- Water Resources and Independence -- Gardens, Parks and Green Reserves -- Ways Forward -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.

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This open access book highlights Singapore's development into a city in which water and greenery, along with associated environmental, technical, social and political aspects have been harnessed and cultivated into a liveable sustainable way of life. It is also a story about a unique and thoroughgoing approach to large-scale and potentially transferable water sustainability, within largely urbanized circumstances, which can be achieved, along with complementary roles of environmental conservation, ecology, public open-space management and the greening of buildings, together with infrastructural improvements.

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