Urbanization and sustainability : linking urban ecology, environmental justice and global environmental change / Christopher G. Boone, Michail Fragkias, editors.
2013
307.1416 U72 2013
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Title
Urbanization and sustainability : linking urban ecology, environmental justice and global environmental change / Christopher G. Boone, Michail Fragkias, editors.
ISBN
9789400756656
9400756658
9400756658
Imprint
Dordrecht ; New York : Springer Science + Business Media, c2013.
Language
English
Description
xv, 201 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Call Number
307.1416 U72 2013
System Control No.
(OCoLC)828424060
(OCoLC)828424060
(OCoLC)828424060
Summary
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.
Note
Papers from an International Human Dimension Programme on Global Environmental Change (IDHP) conference held in Bonn, Germany, in 2009.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Towards a new framework for urbanization and sustainability / Michail Fragkias, Christopher G. Boone
What is a city? An essential definition for sustainability / Peter J. Marcotullio, William Solecki
Ecology and environmental justice: understanding disturbance using ecological theory / Steward T.A. Pickett, Christopher G. Boone, Mary L. Cadenasso
Connecting environmental justice, sustainability, and vulnerability / Christopher G. Boone, Michail Fragkias
Urban ecology and nature's services infrastructure: policy implications of the Million Trees initiative of the city of Los Angeles / Stephanie Pincetl
Risky business: cap-and-trade, public health, and environmental justice / Manuel Pastor, Rachel Morello-Frosch, James Sadd, Justin Scoggins
Urbanization, environmental justice, and social-environmental vulnerability in Brazil / Andrea Ferraz Young
Environmental inequality in São Paulo City: an analysis of differential exposure of social groups to situations of environmental risk / Humberto P.F. Alves, Ricardo Ojima
Climate change adaptation and socio-ecological justice in Chile's metropolitan areas: the role of spatial planning instruments / Jonathan R. Barton
Double exposure in the Sunbelt: the sociospatial distribution of vulnerability in Phoenix, Arizona / Bob Bolin, Juan Declet Barreto, Michelle Hegmon
Climate change, urban flood vulnerability, and responsibility in Taipei / Li-Fang Chang, Karen C. Seto, Shu-Li Huang.
What is a city? An essential definition for sustainability / Peter J. Marcotullio, William Solecki
Ecology and environmental justice: understanding disturbance using ecological theory / Steward T.A. Pickett, Christopher G. Boone, Mary L. Cadenasso
Connecting environmental justice, sustainability, and vulnerability / Christopher G. Boone, Michail Fragkias
Urban ecology and nature's services infrastructure: policy implications of the Million Trees initiative of the city of Los Angeles / Stephanie Pincetl
Risky business: cap-and-trade, public health, and environmental justice / Manuel Pastor, Rachel Morello-Frosch, James Sadd, Justin Scoggins
Urbanization, environmental justice, and social-environmental vulnerability in Brazil / Andrea Ferraz Young
Environmental inequality in São Paulo City: an analysis of differential exposure of social groups to situations of environmental risk / Humberto P.F. Alves, Ricardo Ojima
Climate change adaptation and socio-ecological justice in Chile's metropolitan areas: the role of spatial planning instruments / Jonathan R. Barton
Double exposure in the Sunbelt: the sociospatial distribution of vulnerability in Phoenix, Arizona / Bob Bolin, Juan Declet Barreto, Michelle Hegmon
Climate change, urban flood vulnerability, and responsibility in Taipei / Li-Fang Chang, Karen C. Seto, Shu-Li Huang.
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Series
Human-environment interactions (Springer (Firm)) ; v. 3.
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