Sustainability, the environment and urbanization / / edited by Cedric Pugh

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Earthscan, , 1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.1/416
• Soggetto topico: Sustainable development - Developing countries; Urbanization - Environmental aspects - Developing countries; Environmental policy - Developing countries
• Altri autori: PughCedric D. J
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; The 1980s rethinking on environmental stability; Institutions and the urban environment; International policy and institutional conditions in the 1990s; Examples of progress; The scope and themes of the following chapters; 1 Sustainable Development and Cities; What is to be sustained?; A framework for considering sustainable development and cities; What is currently unsustainable?; Global warming and cities; Linking global and local sustainability ; 2 The Idea of Healthy Cities and its ApplicationHealth in urban areas; The concept of healthy cities; Case studies; Conclusion; 3 Towards Sustainable Infrastructure for Low-income Communities; Abstract; Introduction; The state of urban infrastructure; The development of infrastructure systems; The bottom rung of the improvement ladder; Learning from experience; The way ahead in infrastructure development; 4 Sustainability, Poverty and Urban Environmental Transitions; Urban environmental transitions; From environmental health to sustainability: evidence from a three-city study ; The environmental problems of unserviced households and their neighbourhoodsConclusion; 5 Sustainability and Sustainable Cities; Abstract; Introduction; The history; Sustainability and some applications; Conceptual significance in economics; Ideas and research in sustainable cities; Multi-institutional theory and practice; Conclusions; Annex: the Coase theory and its extension in the new institutional economics (NIE); 6 Urban Sustainability and Social Cohesion; Sustainability and flexibility; Pressures for change; The political economy of urban sclerosis ; Social exclusion and social sustainabilitySclerosis in the static city; Sclerosis in the dynamic city; Conclusion; 7 Sustainability and Methodologies of Environmental Assessment for Cities; Environmental impact of cities; Assessment techniques; Strategic environmental assessment (SEA); Project level environmental impact assessment; Environmental audit (EA); Cost-benefit analysis (CBA); Hedonic pricing; The travel cost method; The contingent valuation method (CVM); Pricing methods; Overall perspective on environmental assessment; Conclusion; 8 Conclusions ; Knowledge: creation, destruction and developmentPolitical economy; Urban sustainable development; Final word; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The 1992 Rio Summit and subsequent literature and debate has focused on 'green' issues such as biodiversity, climate change and marine pollution. Much less has been written concerning the 'brown' agenda: factors such as poor sanitation and water quality, air pollution and housing problems which are particularly prevalent in Third World cities. Sustainability, the Environment and Urbanisation provides a comprehensive overview of the brown agenda, with case studies and examples from a number of Southern countries. It looks at the broad economic context behind the problems and covers the conceptu
• Titolo autorizzato: Sustainability, the environment and urbanization
• ISBN: 1-138-17999-X; 1-315-07080-4; 1-134-17446-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807479903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II