TOWARDS A NEW VISION FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN PARKS A CASE STUDY OF ALAIN WILDLIFE PARK IN ABU DHABI

Document Type : Original Article

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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.

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