Screen LibraryScaling urban environmental challenges：from local to global and back
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| Group Author: | ; |
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| Published: |
Earthscan,
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| Publisher Address: | London Sterling, VA |
| Publication Dates: | 2007. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 366 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
1844073238 (pbk.) 9781844073238 (pbk.) 184407322X (hbk.) 9781844073221 (hbk.) |
| Index Number: | X321 |
| CLC: |
X321 X21 |
| Call Number: | X321/S282 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Scaling the urban environmental challenge / Peter J. Marcotullio and Gordon McGranahan -- Urban transitions and the spatial displacement of environmental burdens / Gordon McGranahan -- Variations of urban environmental transitions : the experiences of rapidly developing Asia Pacific cities / Peter J. Marcotullio -- In pursuit of a healthy urban environment in low- and middle-income nations / David Satterthwaite -- Improving urban water and sanitation services : health, access and boundaries / Kristof Bostoen, Pete Kolsky and Caroline Hunt -- Poverty and the environmental health agenda in a low-income city : the case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana / Jacob Songsore and Gordon McGranahan -- Dynamics of growth and process of degenerated peripheralization in Delhi : an analysis of socio-economic segmentation and differentiation in micro-environment / Amitabh Kundu -- Motorization in rapidly developing cities / Yok-shiu F. Lee -- A comparative perspective on urban transport and emerging environmental problems in middle-income cities / Jeff Kenworthy and Craig Townsend -- Fixing environmental agendas in Mexico / Priscilla Connolly -- In pursuit of the sustainable city / Graham Haughton -- The metabolism of urban affluence : notes from the greater Manchester city-region / Joe Ravetz -- Locating the 'local agenda' : preserving public interest in the evolving urban world / Jeb Brugmann. |