| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cities as consumers of the world's environment / Brandan Gleeson and Nicholas Low -- The Rio Declaration and subsequent global initiatives / Ingemar Elander and Rolf Lidskog -- A rough road out of Rio : the right-wing reaction in the United States against global environmentalism / Timothy W. Luke -- Contradictions at the local scale : local implementation of Agenda 21 in the USA / Robert W. Lake -- Britain : unsustainable cities / Andrew Blowers and Stephen Young -- Sustainability and urban policy in Germany : retrospect and prospect / Anke Valentin, Martin Gürtler and Joachim H. Spangenberg -- Japanese 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 -- Agenda 21 and urban India / Asesh Kumar Maitra and Arvind Krishan -- After Rio : environmental policies and urban planning in Sweden / Rolf Lidskog and Ingemar Elander -- Poland : on the way to a market economy / Tadeusz Markowski and Helena Rouba -- Recent Australian urban policy and the environment : green or mean? / Peter Christoff and Nicholas Low -- Jakarta, Indonesia : kampung culture or consumer culture? / Lea Jellinek -- After Rio : urban environmental governance? / Nicholas Low [and others]. |
| Summary |
Exploring cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact, this text examines the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a difference. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Sustainable development.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Sustainable development. (OCoLC)fst01139731
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Urban ecology (Sociology) (OCoLC)fst01733718
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| Added Author |
Low, Nicholas.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Consuming cities. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 (DLC) 99018549 |
| ISBN |
0203984617 (electronic bk.) |
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9780203984611 (electronic bk.) |
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0415187699 (Paper) |
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0415187680 (hbk.) |
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9780415187688 |
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