Sustainable Cities in Developing Countries - Hardcover

Pugh, Cedric

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853836249 ISBN 13: 9781853836244

Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2001

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Cedric Pugh is Professor of International Urban Economic Development at Sheffield Hallam University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853836249
• ISBN 13: 9781853836244
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256