Urbanization and sustainability : linking urban ecology, environmental justice and global environmental change / Christopher G. Boone, Michail Fragkias, editors.
Publisher:
Springer Science + Business Media,
Copyright Date:
c2013
Description:
xv, 201 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Papers from an International Human Dimension Programme on Global Environmental Change (IDHP) conference held in Bonn, Germany, in 2009. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Climate change, urban flood vulnerability, and responsibility in Taipei / Li-Fang Chang, Karen C. Seto, Shu-Li Huang. What is a city? An essential definition for sustainability / Peter J. Marcotullio, William Solecki -- Ecology and environmental justice: understanding disturbance using ecological theory / Steward T.A. Pickett, Christopher G. Boone, Mary L. Cadenasso -- Connecting environmental justice, sustainability, and vulnerability / Christopher G. Boone, Michail Fragkias -- Urban ecology and nature's services infrastructure: policy implications of the Million Trees initiative of the city of Los Angeles / Stephanie Pincetl -- Risky business: cap-and-trade, public health, and environmental justice / Manuel Pastor, Rachel Morello-Frosch, James Sadd, Justin Scoggins -- Urbanization, environmental justice, and social-environmental vulnerability in Brazil / Andrea Ferraz Young -- Environmental inequality in São Paulo City: an analysis of differential exposure of social groups to situations of environmental risk / Humberto P.F. Alves, Ricardo Ojima -- Climate change adaptation and socio-ecological justice in Chile's metropolitan areas: the role of spatial planning instruments / Jonathan R. Barton -- Double exposure in the Sunbelt: the sociospatial distribution of vulnerability in Phoenix, Arizona / Bob Bolin, Juan Declet Barreto, Michelle Hegmon -- Climate change, urban flood vulnerability, and responsibility in Taipei / Li-Fang Chang, Karen C. Seto, Shu-Li Huang.
Summary:
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.
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