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Summary
Summary
Sustainable 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.
Table of Contents
Reflections on Sustainable Urban Development |
Legal Reform and the Urban Environment |
Sustainability in Cities: Concept, Practice and Potential |
Inequalities in Health: Reflections on Theory and Practice |
Health, Governance and the Environment |
Localisation of Agenda 21 |
The Environment in Shanghai: Evaluation and Future Agendas |
Sustainability and the Improvement of Housing in Squatter Settlements |
Conclusion and Perspectives for the Millenium |