Handbook of cities and the environment / edited by Kevin Archer, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Central Washington University, USA, Kris Bezdecny, Department of Geosciences and Environment, California State University, Los Angeles, USA.
Material type: TextCopyright date: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : EE, Edward Elgar Publishing, c2016Description: viii, 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781784712259 (hbk.)
- 304.2091732 HAN 23 010031
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Kris Bezdecny -- Urban imaginaries of city and nature / John Rennie Short -- Re-naturing cities: great promises, deadlock...and new beginnings? / Erik Swyngedouw and Maria Kaika -- Urban resilience, the local and the politics of the Anthropocene: reflections on the future of the urban environment / Lazaros Karaliotas and Giovanni Bettini -- North American and European sustainable urbanism: toward a theoretical model for sustainable urban design / Rafael E. Pizarro -- Sustainable urban futures: contested transitions and creative pathways / Joe Ravetz -- Towards an urban metabolic analysis of the informal city / Louise Guibrunet and Vanesa Castán Broto -- Urbanization, climate change, and regional integration in the Mekong / Richard M. Friend and Pakamas Thinphanga -- Urban resilience to climate change challenges in Africa / Robert H. Wilson and Todd G. Smith -- Urban flooding, vulnerability, and justice / Donald Houston -- The group and ideological bases of local sustainability policies and programs / Kent E. Portney and Jeffrey M. Berry -- Green space in urban sustainability plans: trends and best practices / Lisa Benton-Short, Melissa Keeley and Jennifer Rowland -- Mending fences: constituting urban subjects through envronmental stewardship / Nate Gabriel -- "Restoring" Seattle's river: competing conceptions of the Duwamish socio-nature / Kevin Archer and Kris Bezdecny -- City sensing and urban aesthetics / Jennifer Kitson and Jonathan Bratt -- Making Moorhen / Ryan Jones -- The new urban assertions: no prospect there / Kathryn Davidson and Brendan Gleeson -- Sustainability and the city / Timothy W. Luke.
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