Goa 2100: The transition to a sustainable RUrban design

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-65

  Revi, A ^a   Prakash, S ^a,b   Mehrotra, R ^a   Bhat, K G ^a   Gupta, K ^a,c   Gore, R ^a,c  

^a TARU   (India)

^b UIA (International Union of Architects)   (India)

^c Urban Design Research Institute in Mumbai   (India)

Author keywords

Rural urban; Sustainable cities; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN DESIGN;

ASIA; EURASIA; GOA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33645582273     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247806063941     Document Type: Article

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1. See www.igu.org or http://www.gas.or.jp/wgc2003/jp/05_sp_eng/sp2/ new20030606.htm for more details.
2. The jury included a former vice-president of the World Bank, the chair of the Bundestag environment committee and world famous environmental scientist, the mayor of Curitiba (a city in Brazil that has pioneered sustainable development in cities) and university professors from Japan, South Korea and the UK; see http://www.gas.or.jp/wgc2003/jp/05_sp_eng/sp2/
3. See www.unchs.org under programmes; also http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/
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5. http://www.ipcc.ch/
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8. http://www.rivm.nl/en/; http://www.ciesin.org
9. An integration and documentation of this process will be an important step towards achieving closure of this project and benchmarking it to similar exploratory planning tools, e.g. GEONAMICA®
10. AtKisson, Alan (2005), "Introducing Rurbanism; the Goa 2100 project", adapted from project documents produced by the Goa 2100 design team and reprinted from Karlson "Charlie" Hargroves and Michael Harrison Smith (editors), The Natural Advantage of Nation. Business Opportunities, Innovation and Governance in the 21st Century, Earthscan Publications, London, 448 pages.
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12. Khazan land is estuarine marshland used to cultivate salt-tolerant rice varieties using brackish river water, and hence with little or no irrigation.
13. A communidad is the traditional Goan village community-based management institution.
14. Low footprint, high material and energy efficient technology applied to public transport, based on Amory Lovins' "Hypercar" model.
15. See, for instance, Alvares, C (2002), Fish Curry and Rice; A Source Book on Goa, Its Ecology and Lifestyle, The Goa Foundation, Goa;
16. also Hall, M (1992), Window on Goa; A History and Guide, Quiller Press, London, 214 pages.
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