The Citizens at Risk: From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities

ISBN-13: 9781853835629 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 216 str.

Gordon McGranahan; Pedro Jacobi; Jacob Songsore

Opis

An account of the changing nature of urban environmental risks. At different levels, it addresses: the challenge of improving health conditions in deprived urban settlements; the challenge of sustainable urban development in a globalizing world; and environmental justice and urban development.

Spis treści

Preface * Introduction * Urban Affluence and Shifting Environmental Burdens * Urban Water: From Health to Sustainability * Shifting Environmental Challenges in Accra, Jakarta and Sao Paulo * Organizing Environmental Improvements in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Plans, Markets, Local Collective Action and Beyond * Techniques for Assessing Local Environmental Problems in Deprived Neighbourhoods * Gender and Local Environmental Management in Accra * Urban Environmental Justice in a Changing World * References * Index