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Overview
"Sustainabile Cities in Developing Countries" addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability on the one hand with the pressing challenges facing some of the worlds most underdeveloped areas. World-renowned experts in the burgeoning field of urban studies and contributors from the United Nations and World Health Organization (WHO) apply current 'sustainability' discourse to the developing sphere of urban studies.A comprehensive range of perspectives are brought to bear on the issues from economics, political science, theories of health, the impact of the built environment, the appraisal of environmental assets through to the very conceptual foundations of sustainability. All the key contemporary developments are dealt with: the growth in international law and agreements on controlling greenhouse gases; the effect of reforms in finance, governance and methods of appraisal on the areas of waste management; the theoretical advances in the community development aspects of health and the neighbourhood environment guided by the experiences of the World Bank, WHO and UNEP.
This is a guidebook for those responsible for re-shaping cities for the next millennium.
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Editorials
Planning Theory and Practice
Offers insights to those practitioners pondering the practicalities of the integration of sustainability goals into urban development. In particular, there is a good concluding chapter bringing the diverse, often overlapping, themes of the nine chapters into one well-summarized chapter. This eases the path of the reader in linking the richness of the dialogue.Book Details
Published
October 18, 2000
Publisher
Earthscan Ltd
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781853836244