Urbanization and Sustainability

Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change

AvChristopher G Boone,Michail Fragkias

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

Del i serien Human-Environment Interactions

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-12-23
Mått:155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Human-Environment Interactions
Antal sidor:204
Upplaga:2013
Förlag:Springer
ISBN:9789400756656

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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)

Innehållsförteckning

Contents.- 1. Urbanization and Sustainability: The ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice, and Global Environmental Change.- 2. What is a City? An Essential Definition for Sustainability.- 3. Ecology and Environmental Justice: Understanding Disturbance Using Ecological Theory.- 4. Connecting Environmental Justice, Sustainability, and Vulnerability.- 5. Urban Ecology and Nature’s Services Infrastructure: Policy Implications of the Million Trees Initiative of The City of Los Angeles.- 6. Risky Business: Cap-and-Trade, Public Health, and Environmental Justice.- 7. Urbanization, Environmental Justice and Social-Environmental Vulnerability in Brazil.- 8. Environmental Inequality in São Paulo City: An Analysis of Differential Exposure of Social Groups to Situations of Environmental Risk.- 9. Climate Change Adaptation and Socio-Ecological Justice in Chile’s Metropolitan Areas: The Role of Spatial Planning Instruments.- 10. Double Exposure in the Sunbelt: The Sociospatial Distribution of Vulnerability in Phoenix, Arizona.- 11. Climate Change, Urban Flood Vulnerability and Responsibility in Taipei.- Index.