Consuming Cities / / Ingemar Elander [and three others] |
Autore | Elander Ingemar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified] : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 304.2 |
Soggetto topico | Human geography |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Cities as Consumers of the World's Environment Brendan Gleeson and Nicholas Low; -- 2. The Rio Declaration and Subsequent Global Initiatives Ingemar Elander and Rolf Lidskog; -- 3. A Rough Road Out of Rio: The Right-Wing Reaction in the United States Against Global Environmentalism Timothy W Luke; -- 4. Contradictions at the Local Scale: Local Implementation of Agenda 21 in the USA Robert W Lake; -- 5. Britain: Unsustainable Cities Andrew Blowers and Stephen Young; -- 6. Sustainability and Urban Policy in Germany: Retrospect and Prospect Anke Valentin and Joachim Spangenberg; -- 7. Japenese 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; -- 9. Agenda 21 and Urban India Asesh Kumar Maitra and Arvind Krishan;10. After Rio: Environmental Policies and Urban Planning in Sweden Rolf Lidskog and Ingemar Elander; -- 11. Poland: On the Way to a Market Economy Tadeusz Markowski and Helena Rouba; -- 12. Consuming Cities and Environmental Policy in Australia Peter Christoff and Nicholas Low; -- 13. Jakarta, Indonesia; -- Kampug Culture or Consumer Culture? Lea Jellinek; -- 14. After Rio: Urban Environmental Governance? Nicolas Low, Brendan Gleeson, Ingemar Elander and Rolf Lidskog. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910476799203321 |
Elander Ingemar | ||
[Place of publication not identified] : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Consuming cities : the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio Declaration / / edited by Nicholas Low. [et al.] |
Autore | Elander Ingemar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Taylor & Francis, 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina |
304.2/09173/2
307.76 |
Altri autori (Persone) | LowNicholas |
Soggetto topico |
Sustainable development
Urban ecology (Sociology) |
Soggetto non controllato |
ecologically
sustainable development rio declaration ecological modernisation conference sustainability global |
ISBN |
1-134-66111-8
1-280-16454-9 0-203-98461-7 9786610164547 1-283-70797-7 1-134-66112-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; 1 Cities as consumers of the world's environment; Introduction; Sustainable development and the changing model of growth; The discourse of urban sustainable development; The model of economic development; The urban environment in the global economy; The demographic context: destabilised population growth; The economic context: marketisation, poverty and spatial polarisation; The political-cultural context: neo-liberal ascendancy and 'competitive cities'; Environmental distribution
Ecological distributionConclusion; References; 2 The Rio Declaration and subsequent global initiatives; Introduction; Global environmental governance; Different approaches to environmental governance; Agenda, 21, Habitat II and the partnership approach; The rationale of partnership; From environmental threat to sustainable development; From Earth Summit to City Summit and beyond; Human Settlements; Beyond Habitat; Sustainable development and urban policy; Agenda 21 and global environmental governance: concluding remarks; References; 3 A rough road out of Rio; Introduction The Earth Summit and its promiseThe official American opposition to Rio; Antiglobalism and ultranationalism in the USA; Anti-statism as anti-environmentalism; Conclusions: rough road ahead; References; 4 Contradictions at the local scale; Introduction; Adoption of local Agenda 21 programs in the USA; Motivations for initiating Local Agenda 21 programs; Local Agenda 21 program characteristics; Discussion; Conclusion; Notes; References; 5 Britain: unsustainable cities; Britain in international context; Urbanisation and the construction of social inequality; The social impact of urban planning British cities and the Rio processAction at the National Level; Action at the level of the city; Progress on LA21; Other impacts at the level of the city; The significance of Rio; Factors affecting progress on LA21; The conditions for sustainable urban development; Note; References; 6 Sustainability and urban policy in Germany; Introduction; Sustainable development at national level; Federal gavernment policy; Development co-operation: the BMZ; National urban planning of the BMBau; Environmental policy of the BMU; Civil society activities; New networks (http://www.oneworldweb.de/forum) New organisations: Germanwatch (http://www.germanwatch.org)New campaigns: sustainable Germany; The general framework of local authorities in Germany; Scope for policy development; The idea of a 'leitbild'; The institutionalisation of Local Agenda 21 in German municipalities; The issues of Local Agenda 21 in German municipalities; Problems of implementation of Local Agenda 21 in Germany; Structural changes at local level after the Rio Declaration; Changes at the inter-municipal level: the networks; Structural changes within the municipality; Summing up; Note; References 7 Japanese urban policy |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910765992403321 |
Elander Ingemar | ||
Taylor & Francis, 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Urban Renewal, Governance and Sustainable Development: More of the Same or New Paths? |
Autore | Elander Ingemar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (170 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Research & information: general
Environmental economics |
Soggetto non controllato |
just city
climate just city 'the right to the city' climate change adaptation power equity urban planning deliberative democracy ecological reflexivity reflexive governance participation regulation risk transparency public-private partnership Nordic governance housing future proof cities sustainability urban development Doughnut Economics sustainable city local political engagement citizen citizenship resident inclusiveness exclusiveness social innovation social enterprise policy analysis problem representation individual activation social sustainability climate litigation separation of powers legitimacy consumption degrowth geography register data voluntary simplicity Sweden urban resilience crisis flexibility innovation knowledge production |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Urban Renewal, Governance and Sustainable Development |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910576871503321 |
Elander Ingemar | ||
MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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