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Consuming cities : the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio Declaration / edited by Nicholas Low. [et al.]. - 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages)

1. Cities as consumers of the world's environment -- 2. The Rio Declaration and subsequent global initiatives -- 3. A rough road out of Rio: the right-wing reaction in the United States against global environmentalism -- 4. Contradictions at the local scale : local implementation of Agenda 21 in the USA -- 5. Britain : unsustainable cities -- 6. Sustainability and urban policy in Germany : retrospect and prospect -- 7. Japanese urban policy : challenges of the Rio Earth Summit -- 8. China's urban environmental sustainability in a global context -- 9. Agenda 21 and urban India -- 10. After Rio : environmental policies and urban planning in Sweden -- 11. Poland : on the way to a market economy -- 12. Recent Australian urban policy and the environment : green or mean? -- 13. Jakarta, Indonesia : kampung culture or consumer culture? -- 14. After Rio : urban environmental governance?

ISBN: 9780203984611 (e-book : PDF) 9781134661077 (e-book: Mobi) 9781134661114 (e-book: ePub) 9781134661121 (e-book: PDF) (hardback) (paperback)

Standard No.: 10.4324/9780203984611 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Sustainable development.

LC Class. No.: HT241 / .C66 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 304.2091732 / C758