Overview
- Offers a global perspective on environmental justice and urbanization in the face of environmental change
- Includes a wide range of case study research on global environmental change and cities of various sizes
- Provides lessons for equitable, sustainable practices in response to environmental change in the urban century
Part of the book series: Human-Environment Interactions (HUEN, volume 3)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
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“This collection of 11 essays is a fine contribution to the burgeoning body of literature concerned with environmental issues. Editors Boone and Fragkias have assembled a useful and intriguing mixture of essays with the ultimate goal of achieving an interdisciplinary synthesis for further discussion and contemplation. … Those based in the disciplines of geography and sociology will be most intrigued by the scholarship offered in this text. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (P. Gamsby, Choice, Vol. 50 (11), July, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urbanization and Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change
Editors: Christopher G. Boone, Michail Fragkias
Series Title: Human-Environment Interactions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5666-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5665-6Published: 23 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9210-4Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5666-3Published: 24 December 2012
Series ISSN: 2214-2339
Series E-ISSN: 2452-1744
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 204
Topics: Environment, general, Social Sciences, general, Geography, general, Climate Change Management and Policy, Sustainable Development, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary