Scaling urban environmental challenges
Subtitle: from local to global and back
By: edited by Peter J. Marcotullio and Gordon McGranahan
Contributors: Marcotullio, Peter, 1957-; McGranahan, Gordon
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9781844073238; 9781844073221
Subjects: Urbanization -- Environmental aspects; Cities and towns -- Growth; Urban ecology; Sustainable development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Scaling the urban environmental challenge / Peter J. Marcotullio and Gordon McGranahan; title: Urban transitions and the spatial displacement of environmental burdens / Gordon McGranahan; title: Variations of urban environmental transitions : the experiences of rapidly developing Asia Pacific cities / Peter J. Marcotullio; title: In pursuit of a healthy urban environment in low- and middle-income nations / David Satterthwaite; title: Improving urban water and sanitation services : health, access and boundaries / Kristof Bostoen, Pete Kolsky and Caroline Hunt; title: 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; title: Dynamics of growth and process of degenerated peripheralization in Delhi : an analysis of socio-economic segmentation and differentiation in micro-environment / Amitabh Kundu; title: Motorization in rapidly developing cities / Yok-shiu F. Lee; title: A comparative perspective on urban transport and emerging environmental problems in middle-income cities / Jeff Kenworthy and Craig Townsend; title: Fixing environmental agendas in Mexico / Priscilla Connolly; title: In pursuit of the sustainable city / Graham Haughton; title: The metabolism of urban affluence : notes from the greater Manchester city-region / Joe Ravetz; title: Locating the 'local agenda' : preserving public interest in the evolving urban world / Jeb Brugmann