Ecocities Now

Introduction.- Part I. Socially Just and Ecologically Sustainable Cities.- Chapter 1. Supporting Informal Areas Resilience: Reinforcing Hidden Green Potentials for a Better Quality of Life.- Chapter 2. Assessing Urban Forest Values using a Combination of LiDAR, TSI, and i-Tree Eco field data.- Chapter 3. Use of Biochar to Improve Stormwater Runoff Quality.- Part II. Climate Action.- Chapter 4. Rethinking the territory, Concepción Chile. A resilient and strategic planning for a vulnerable urban coastal system.- Chapter 5. Willingness to use non-motorized transport is underestimated.- Chapter 6. Informal Solutions Towards Personal Net Zero.- Part III. Circular Economy.- Chapter 7. Making cement from demolished concrete: a potential circular economy through geopolymer chemistry.- Chapter 8. A hybrid model for sustainable urban metabolism in metropolitan communities.- Part IV. Informal Solutions for Sustainable Development.- Chapter 9. Elements of community capacity building in post-earthquake reconstruction of Nepal.- Chapter 10. Developing a decentralized and integrated water management System for Neighborhood Communities within Indonesia's informal urban Settlements.- Conclusion.

Jennie Moore, Ph.D. is Director, Institute Sustainability at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and leads its Ecocity Centre of Excellence. She was the program convenor for the 2019 Ecocity World Summit and a founding coordinator of Vancouver's EcoCity Network. She is a core advisor to the International Ecocity Standards and creator of the ecoCity Footprint Tool that helps cities and citizens identify pathways to sustainability. With over twenty years of public service, Dr. Moore was Metro Vancouver's first Air Quality Planner in charge of climate action, first Demand Side Management Planner curbing consumption to address bioregional capacity, and first manager of the Sustainable Region Initiative developing a sustainability framework to guide regional plans.

Sahar Attia, Ph.D. is Professor of Architecture, Urban Design and Planning in the Department of Architecture at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, where she also previously served as Chair of the Architecture Department. She has forty years of experience practicing urban planning, community development, architecture, and urban design in the academic and professional field, and she is MD of Associated Consultants, Head of Planning /urban design and Community Development sector and also works as an Urban Development Consultant. Dr. Attia was a member of the Ecocity World Summit 2019 program committee and is on the Board of Directors of Ecocity Builders, the international not-for-profit organization that oversees the Ecocity World Summit conference series.

Adel Farid Abdel-Kader, Ph.D. is a senior executive advisor with over twenty-five years of experience in environment, sustainable development, and disaster risk reduction. He consults to governments, international organizations, industry, and not-for-profit organizations and was a member of the 2019 Ecocity World Summit program committee. He was CEO and founder of the Toronto-based Trend Green Knowledge Inc. Previously,