Springer Nature in the Built Environment: Global Politico-Economic, Geo-Ecologic and Socio-Historical Perspectives

A good understanding of the status quo is necessary for the success of efforts to develop and maintain nature in built space. Accordingly, this book conducts an environmental scan of the context of these efforts in global perspective. In particular, it develops and employs a novel environmental scanning model (ESM) designed to rigorously analyze the political, economic, social, technological, ecological, cultural and historical (PESTECH) contexts of initiatives to promote biodiversity in the built environment. The focus is on four specific substantive areas of environmental policy, namely forestry, water, food, and energy. The units of analysis roughly correspond with the major United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) regions of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa, Middle-East and North Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Western Europe, North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean. From the Back Cover A good understanding of the status quo is necessary for the success of efforts to develop and maintain nature in built space. Accordingly, this book conducts an environmental scan of the context of these efforts in global perspective. In particular, it develops and employs a novel environmental scanning model (ESM) designed to rigorously analyze the political, economic, social, technological, ecological, cultural and historical (PESTECH) contexts of initiatives to promote biodiversity in the built environment. The focus is on four specific substantive areas of environmental policy, namely forestry, water, food, and energy. The units of analysis roughly correspond with the major United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) regions of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa, Middle-East and North Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Western Europe, North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean. About the Author Ambe J. Njoh is a Professor of Environmental Science & Policy at the University of South Florida (USF), USA. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Planning Studies from the University of London’s Bartlett Development Planning Unit, Bartlett School of Architecture & Planning. Prior to earning the Ph.D., Njoh had completed a Masters of City & Regional Planning (MCRP) from the School of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma, and a Diploma in Civil Engineering Technology from the Advanced School of Public Works in Cameroon. Before becoming part of the teaching staff at USF, he served as Transit Planning Manager at the Florida Department of Transportation, Tallahassee, Florida. He was the Pioneer Director of the Urban & Regional Planning Program at USF from 2009 to 2014. Professor Njoh has written 11 books, and more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and technical reports. Many of his peer-reviewed publications are on community participation in water and sanitation service provisioning, renewable energy policy and systems, and land use policy. His two most recent books are Urban Planning and Public Health in Africa published by Ashgate (2014), and French Urbanism in Foreign Lands, published by Springer (2016).