Sustainable Development and Planning: V

Contents Section 1: Regional planning Maritime and coastal spatial planning: the case of Greece and the Mediterranean; Limits and possibilities for the promotion of sustainable development: the case of Northwest Region Fluminense; Abu Dhabi efforts in facing global warming challenges through urban planning; Primary sector waste indicators for regional planning; Promoting sustainable development in the minerals industry: the phosphate project in Saudi Arabia; Towards a sustainable system: application of temporal analysis on flood risk management Section 2: City planning The small world of stakeholder groups: cascading concepts for urban change; The strength of the urban form; Future projects on water resources for a sustainable urban development: a case study of Surat city of India; Conceptual spatio-temporal data modelling and land use change Section 3: Sustainability in the built environment Real estate crisis and sustainability in Spain; Urban sprawl: can it be sustainable? An analysis on energy performances of different urban forms; Sustainable aspects of traditional Ottoman neighbourhoods in modern Turkish urban settlements; From scoring to orienting: the development of a compass for evaluating sustainable urban development at the neighbourhood scale; Whole-building design for a green school building in Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates; Eco-industrial parks: technologies and procedures for low environmental impacts; Overview of current energy policy and standards in the building sector in Iran; Integrating passive cooling techniques for sustainable building performance in hot climates with reference to the UAE; Visualization of the thermal environments of RC and composite-wall constructions; Lowering the sink temperature for a desert solar air conditioning system; Innovative approaches to urban water management in developing countries; A study of the impacts of existing artificial optical radiation at student housing sites; An overview of safety effects on pedestrians at modern roundabouts; Re-design for change: environmental and financial assessment of a dynamic renovation approach for residential buildings; Development of a sustainable construction system for temporary structures Section 4: Cultural heritage The impact of urban sprawl on the heritage areas through the urban fabric of cities; Investigating the sustainable fabric of the historical city of Marvast; Evaluation of the conservation activities in the historical settlement Tenedos-Bozcaada Island; Literary tourism as a promoter of cultural heritage; The soundscape of cities: a new layer in city renewal Section 5: Environmental management The evaluation of ecological sustainable development capacities in Kashan: an historic city of Iran; Trading system of environmental loads: interregional cap and trade system using an ecological footprint; A scale for architectural design compactness: a mathematical approach; Bumblebees as potential indicators for the evaluation of habitat quality; Environmental management options for mitigation of congestion impacts in the Ataturk Urban forest of Bursa, Turkey; Monte Carlo analysis and its application within the valuation of technologies; Assessment method for the ecological status of Estonian coastal waters based on submerged aquatic vegetation; Evaluation of oil shale mining heritage in Estonia; Remediation of coastal sandy soils polluted by petroleum leaks; Integrated sustainable anaerobic treatment for low strength wastewater Section 6: Resources management A national parkless Northern Ireland: the tourism resource paradox and the implications for sustainability; The development of seaweed farming as a sustainable coastal management method in Indonesia: an opportunities and constraints assessment; Economic valuation of sport fisheries in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico Section 7: Social and political issues Sustainability in projects: an analysis of relevant sustainability aspects in the project management process based on the three pillars model; Public involvement in sustainable development: a public participation process in the Sidi Gaber railway station development project, Alexandria, Egypt; Asset management of public facilities in an era of climate change: application of the dynamic computable general equilibrium model; Shared responsibility for post-Kyoto; Paying the price: nationalisation of private property or restoring the commons?; Participation of children: an alternative to building new cities; Reducing greenhouse gases using the pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) system Section 8: Rural developments Assessment of a sustainable rural development model: best practices in Comala, Colima, Mexico; Irrigation and territory in the southeast of Spain: evolution and future perspectives within new hydrological planning; The relationship between rice and the housing of rice-growers in the north of Iran; The use of donkeys for transport: the case of Khartoum State, Sudan Section 9: Sustainable solutions in developing countries A policy framework for sustainability in developing countries: applying value chain theory to a society's hierarchy of needs; Evaluating stakeholders preferences: reconciling heritage and sustainability; Empirical analysis of the linkages between the manufacturing and other sectors of the Nigerian economy; Challenging limitations for achieving decentralization in terms of participatory planning in developing countries, case study: Egypt; Nigeria's industrial development: issues and challenges in the new millennium Section 10: Transportation Planning sustainable e-mobility; Functional and dysfunctional urban mass transportation systems in the greater Gauteng region of South Africa; The second Mexican toll road program: learning from the experience; Calibration of a method for selecting roundabouts as a function of the inner island treatment; Signal setting in an urban area: a procedure with day-to-day dynamic and stability constraints; Optimal planning of selective waste collection Section 11: Container maritime transport (Special session chaired by F. Russo) Container maritime transport on an international scale: a procedure for aggregate estimation of demand variables; Container maritime transport on an international scale: a model to simulate the demand flow in the Mediterranean basin; Container maritime transport on an international scale: a choice model of service and hub port; Container maritime transport on an international scale: data envelopment analysis for transhipment port Section 12: Energy resources Financing sources and policies for renewable energies; Energy and the implication of residential cooling in hot climates: a case study for developing an effective solution for residential cooling energy demand in Kuwait; Enhanced aquifer thermal energy storage for cooling and heating of Shinshu University building using a nested well system; Modeling energy savings in low income residencies; Fuel economy and emissions analysis of conventional diesel, diesel-electric hybrid, biodiesel and natural gas powered transit buses; Street lighting power reduction potential in Lithuanian cities; Biomass pellets production with industrial and agro-industrial wastes; Bioethanol production from oilseed rape straw hydrolysate by free and immobilised cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Latent heat thermal energy storage systems in lightweight construction: review of PCM applications in Solar Decathlon houses; Testing for oil saving technological changes in ARDL models of demand for oil in G7 and BRICs