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) 
<br/><br/>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? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780203984611 9781134661077 9781134661114 9781134661121 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4324/9780203984611   doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Urban ecology (Sociology)<br/>Sustainable development.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT241  / .C66 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>304.2091732  / C758