Economic Growth Versus The Environment

The risks of current air pollution in world-cities seem to have vanished under the dazzling atmosphere of international competitiveness and growing higher standards of living. Yet, the trend for air pollution persists. This book presents the bewildering contradiction between successful economic regional growth and environmental degradation that leads to human ill health.

This is an interdisciplinary text that has a politically- and economically-argued case for analyzing the physical and social problem of air pollution and ill health in the context of globalization and local risks.

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Cherni (environmental science and technology, Imperial College, London) looks at the connections between economic growth and urban air pollution and subsequent human health problems. The focus is on the concrete physical consequences of the way the environment is socially affected at the global and local level. Several chapters are devoted to a discussion of growth and pollution in Houston, Texas. Cherni also highlights a number of flaws in regulations on industrial emissions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Judith A. Cherni is Fellow Research Lecturer, Department of Environment and Technology in Imperial College, London