CONTENTS
Preface vii
Expert Commentary: From Government to Governance in
Spatial Planning and Information Science 1
Walter T. de Vries
Chapter 1 Sustainable Energy Development and
Climate Change Mitigation 7
Dalia Streimikiene and Remigijus Čiegis
Chapter 2 A Resource Dependency Perspective on the Sustainable
Development of Local Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI’s) 69
Walter T. De Vries
Chapter 3 The Habitats Directive as a Driver for Sustainable
Development in the Coastal Zone: The Example of the
Humber Estuary 109
Roger K. A. Morris and Peter Barham
Chapter 4 Sustainable Development in Oil Pipelines Industry
Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process 139
Prasanta Kumar Dey
Chapter 5 Sustainable Development of the Space Environment 167
Mark Williamson
Chapter 6 Energy, Water and Sustainable Development 189
Abdeen Mustafa Omer
Chapter 7 Representations and Behaviours of Farmers with
Regard to Sustainable Development:
A Psycho-environmental Approach 207
Elisabeth Michel-Guillou and Karine Weiss
Chapter 8 Advances in Laser Remote Sensing of Forests 223
Michael A. Wulder, Christopher W. Bater,
Nicholas C. Coops, Yasumasa Hirata, and Tatsuo Sweda
Chapter 9 Sustainable Development in Oil Extraction:
The Rights of Future Generations 235
Sabry A. Abdel Sabour
Chapter 10 Formulation and Development of Policy for Sustainable
Development: Using the Life Cycle Approach for
Integration of Environmental Considerations 253
Sumiani Yusoff
Index 267