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  title info:
    title: Urbanization and Sustainability
    sub title: Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change
  name:
    name part: Boone, Christopher G.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Fragkias, Michail.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 204 p. online resource.
  abstract: “The grand challenge for the coming decades will be to transform the ways we think about and act upon the relationship between people and the environment in order to transition towards a sustainable future.” – from the preface Urbanization and Sustainability: Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change stems from a 2009 workshop on linking ecology, environmental justice, and global environmental change that the editors organized for the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP), an international scientific initiative that catalyzes and coordinates research on the human dimensions of environmental change. The book addresses key themes of the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Programme, a core project of the IHDP. The book draws together three major themes: Global Environmental Change, incorporating a range of interactions between societies and ecosystems; Urbanization, because urbanization processes will drive and respond to challenges of environmental change; and Justice, because the most vulnerable members of society bear a disproportionate burden of the ill effects of environmental change and urbanization. Case studies explore the Million Trees initiative in Los Angeles; the relationship of cap-and-trade policy, public health, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice in Southern California; Urbanization, vulnerability and environmental justice in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and São Paulo, and in Antofagasta, Greater Concepción and Valparaiso in Chile; Sociospatial patterns of vulnerability in the American southwest; and Urban flood control and land use planning in Greater Taipei, Taiwan ROC. The editors proceed from the proposition that sustainability means more than surviving – it is about envisioning a desirable, plausible future and working towards that goal.
  table of contents: Contents -- 1. Urbanization and Sustainability: The ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice, and Global Environmental Change -- 2. What is a City? An Essential Definition for Sustainability -- 3. Ecology and Environmental Justice: Understanding Disturbance Using Ecological Theory -- 4. Connecting Environmental Justice, Sustainability, and Vulnerability -- 5. Urban Ecology and Nature’s Services Infrastructure: Policy Implications of the Million Trees Initiative of The City of Los Angeles -- 6. Risky Business: Cap-and-Trade, Public Health, and Environmental Justice -- 7. Urbanization, Environmental Justice and Social-Environmental Vulnerability in Brazil -- 8. Environmental Inequality in São Paulo City: An Analysis of Differential Exposure of Social Groups to Situations of Environmental Risk -- 9. Climate Change Adaptation and Socio-Ecological Justice in Chile’s Metropolitan Areas: The Role of Spatial Planning Instruments.- 10. Double Exposure in the Sunbelt: The Sociospatial Distribution of Vulnerability in Phoenix, Arizona -- 11. Climate Change, Urban Flood Vulnerability and Responsibility in Taipei -- Index.
  note: edited by Christopher G. Boone, Michail Fragkias.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Science
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environment, general
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Geography, general
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change Management and Policy
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  subject:
    topic: Science, general
  classification: GE1-350
  classification: 333.7
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Human-Environment Interactions ; 3
  identifier: 9789400756663
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5666-3
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    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20151204185727.0
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