Urban Eco-Communities in Australia Real Utopian Responses to the Ecological Crisis or Niche Markets? /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Cooper, Liam (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Baer, Hans A. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Sociology, Urban.; Human geography.; Urban ecology (Biology).; Sustainable development.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Human Geography.; Urban Ecology.; Sustainable Development.

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts. Engaging directly with debates on urbanisation, sustainability and utopia, it presents two detailed ethnographic case studies of inner urban Australian eco-communities in Adelaide and Melbo...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Building the Future: Real Ecotopian Models in the Age of Climate Change
• 3 Christie Walk: An Urban Eco-Village in an Increasing Hot City
• 4 WestWyck: An Urban Eco-Village in the World's Putatively Most Liveable City
• 5 Enacting Real Ecotopia in the City: Ontological and Ecological Characteristics and Contradictions
• 6 Prefiguring Ecopolis: Ecotopian Cities or Niche Markets?
• 7 Conclusion.