Urbanization and Sustainability
Subtitle: Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change
Publisher: Springer; Springer Science + Business Media
Published: Dec 23, 2012
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9789400756656
Description: Case studies explore the Million Trees initiative in Los Angeles; the relationship of cap-and-trade policy, public health, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice in Southern California; Urbanization, vulnerability and environmental justice in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and São Paulo, and in Antofagasta, Greater Concepción and Valparaiso in Chile; Sociospatial patterns of vulnerability in the American southwest; and Urban flood control and land use planning in Greater Taipei, Taiwan ROC.
Notes: Source title: Urbanization and Sustainability: Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change (Human-Environment Interactions (3))