Consuming cities : the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio Declaration /

Consuming cities : the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio Declaration / edited by Nicholas Low. [et al.]. - 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages)

1. Cities as consumers of the world's environment 2. The Rio Declaration and subsequent global initiatives 3. A rough road out of Rio: the right-wing reaction in the United States against global environmentalism 4. Contradictions at the local scale : local implementation of Agenda 21 in the USA 5. Britain : unsustainable cities 6. Sustainability and urban policy in Germany : retrospect and prospect 7. Japanese urban policy : challenges of the Rio Earth Summit 8. China's urban environmental sustainability in a global context 9. Agenda 21 and urban India 10. After Rio : environmental policies and urban planning in Sweden 11. Poland : on the way to a market economy 12. Recent Australian urban policy and the environment : green or mean? 13. Jakarta, Indonesia : kampung culture or consumer culture? 14. After Rio : urban environmental governance?

9780203984611 9781134661077 9781134661114 9781134661121

10.4324/9780203984611 doi


Urban ecology (Sociology)
Sustainable development.

HT241 / .C66 2000

304.2091732 / C758