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100 1 _aBoone, Christopher G.
_eeditor.
245 1 0 _aUrbanization and Sustainability
_h[electronic resource] :
_bLinking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change /
_cedited by Christopher G. Boone, Michail Fragkias.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2013.
300 _aXV, 201 p. 30 illus., 10 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 1 _aHuman-Environment Interactions ;
_v3
505 0 _aContents -- 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.
520 _a“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.
650 0 _aEnvironmental sciences.
650 0 _aScience (General).
650 0 _aGeography.
650 0 _aClimatic changes.
650 0 _aSustainable development.
650 0 _aSocial sciences.
650 1 4 _aEnvironment.
650 2 4 _aEnvironment, general.
650 2 4 _aSocial Sciences, general.
650 2 4 _aGeography (general).
650 2 4 _aClimate Change.
650 2 4 _aSustainable Development.
650 2 4 _aScience, general.
700 1 _aFragkias, Michail.
_eeditor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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830 0 _aHuman-Environment Interactions ;
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