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Scaling urban environmental challenges : from local to global and back / edited by Peter J. Marcotullio and Gordon McGranahan.

Other author/creatorMarcotullio, Peter, 1957-
Other author/creatorMcGranahan, Gordon.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan,
Descriptionxviii, 366 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subject(s)
Contents Scaling the urban environmental challenge / Peter J. Marcotullio and Gordon McGranahan -- Urban transitions and the spatial displacement of environmental burdens / Gordon McGranahan -- Variations of urban environmental transitions : the experiences of rapidly developing Asia Pacific cities / Peter J. Marcotullio -- In pursuit of a healthy urban environment in low- and middle-income nations / David Satterthwaite -- Improving urban water and sanitation services : health, access and boundaries / Kristof Bostoen, Pete Kolsky and Caroline Hunt -- Poverty and the environmental health agenda in a low-income city : the case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana / Jacob Songsore and Gordon McGranahan -- Dynamics of growth and process of degenerated peripheralization in Delhi : an analysis of socio-economic segmentation and differentiation in micro-environment / Amitabh Kundu -- Motorization in rapidly developing cities / Yok-shiu F. Lee -- A comparative perspective on urban transport and emerging environmental problems in middle-income cities / Jeff Kenworthy and Craig Townsend -- Fixing environmental agendas in Mexico / Priscilla Connolly -- In pursuit of the sustainable city / Graham Haughton -- The metabolism of urban affluence : notes from the greater Manchester city-region / Joe Ravetz -- Locating the 'local agenda' : preserving public interest in the evolving urban world / Jeb Brugmann.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2006021887
ISBN1844073238 (pbk.)
ISBN9781844073238 (pbk.)
ISBN184407322X (hbk.)
ISBN9781844073221 (hbk.)

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