TOWARDS A NEW VISION FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN PARKS A CASE STUDY OF ALAIN WILDLIFE PARK IN ABU DHABI | ||
| The International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering | ||
| Article 58, Volume 9, 9th International Conference on Civil and Architecture Engineering, May 2012, Pages 1-14 PDF (1.39 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/iccae.2012.44395 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ghada Mohamed Rehan | ||
| Associate professor Faculty of engineering, Helwan university. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| ABSTRACT The interest of all human societies with environment has grown recently especially after lifestyle associated with dangerous environmental crisis, such as loss of biodiversity and shrinking green space, air and water pollution , global w arming and the depletion of non-renewable resources, which prompted the call for a sustainable alternative model works to achieve harmony between the achievement of development objectives on the one hand and the protection of the environment and sustainabi lity on the other hand The UN Conference on Environment and Development include a set of criteria and indicators that reflect the positive outlook for the sustainability of human settlements development to create an environment based high -efficiency. Urban parks are considered one of the important mechanisms for achieving sustainable urban development from this standpoint this research focuses on the study of urban parks and their role in achieving sustainable development. It then concentrate on a case stu dy of one of the sustainable success environmental parks in Abu Dhabi (Al Ain park) as a model for environmental and identify the advantages to find out extent of application of each to sustainable development criteria in order to get cleaner and green environment in the future follow the highest standards of sustainable development. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Sustainable Development; Environmental sustainability; indicators of sustainability; urban parks; sustainable parks; elements; standard; levels of urban parks | ||
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