Broschiertes Buch

Urbanization and Sustainability

Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change

Herausgegeben: Boone, Christopher G; Fragkias, Michail

Beschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Human-Environment Interactions 3
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-94-007-9210-4
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 343g
• ISBN-13: 9789400792104
• ISBN-10: 9400792107
• Artikelnr.: 42207830

Rezensionen

From the reviews:
"This collection of 11 essays is a fine contribution to the burgeoning body of literature concerned with environmental issues. Editors Boone and Fragkias have assembled a useful and intriguing mixture of essays with the ultimate goal of achieving an interdisciplinary synthesis for further discussion and contemplation. ... Those based in the disciplines of geography and sociology will be most intrigued by the scholarship offered in this text. ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (P. Gamsby, Choice, Vol. 50 (11), July, 2013)