Consuming Cities

Elander, Ingemar; Gleeson, Brendan; Lidskog, Rolf; Low, Nicholas

'An excellent, upper-level undergraduate text.' - Environment and Planning A'A rich feast of empirical material on the urban environment to date ... good value for money'' - Cities

• 1. Cities as Consumers of the World's Environment Brendan Gleeson and Nicholas Low; 2. The Rio Declaration and Subsequent Global Initiatives Ingemar Elander and Rolf Lidskog; 3. A Rough Road Out of Rio: The Right-Wing Reaction in the United States Against Global Environmentalism Timothy W Luke; 4. Contradictions at the Local Scale: Local Implementation of Agenda 21 in the USA Robert W Lake; 5. Britain: Unsustainable Cities Andrew Blowers and Stephen Young; 6. Sustainability and Urban Policy in Germany: Retrospect and Prospect Anke Valentin and Joachim Spangenberg; 7. Japenese Urban Policy: Challenges of the Rio Earth Summit Fukashi Utsunomiya and Toshio Hase; China's Urban Environmental Sustainability in a Global Context Yongyuan Yin and Mark Wang; 9. Agenda 21 and Urban India Asesh Kumar Maitra and Arvind Krishan;10. After Rio: Environmental Policies and Urban Planning in Sweden Rolf Lidskog and Ingemar Elander; 11. Poland: On the Way to a Market Economy Tadeusz Markowski and Helena Rouba; 12. Consuming Cities and Environmental Policy in Australia Peter Christoff and Nicholas Low; 13. Jakarta, Indonesia; Kampug Culture or Consumer Culture? Lea Jellinek; 14. After Rio: Urban Environmental Governance? Nicolas Low, Brendan Gleeson, Ingemar Elander and Rolf Lidskog