Contents: Introduction; Policy: Policy and politics in urban environmental management; Creating metropolitan environmental strategies; Issues of inequality in managing water supply in Asian cities; Environmental management in the Cape Metropolitan Area; The National Urban Parks programme in Santiago, Chile; The governance of waste management in African cities; What's health got to do with it? Using environmental health to guide priority-setting towards equitable environmental management in cities. Management: Management of the urban environment; Air pollution in São Paulo: the challenge for environmental co-responsibility and innovative crisis management; Sustainable urban development and the urban poor in Rio de Janeiro; Solid waste management in Copenhagen; The social nature of floods in Buenos Aires: rainfall increase or higher vulnerability?; Solid waste management in Colombo; The working group approach to environmental management under the Accra sustainable programme; The development of a systematic approach to urban environmental planning and management in Thailand. Organization and Politics: Organization and politics in urban environmental management; Beyond the myths of the new environmental localism; Local-international partnerships in metropolitan environmental management: Latin American experiences; The local agenda 21 process in the United Kingdom: lessons for policy and practice in stakeholder participation; Negotiating the local-central government relationship: experience from flood hazard management; Decentralization, local autonomy and metropolitan influence: the case of Salvador, Brazil; Controversy over the preservation of a metropolitan area's fresh water reservoirs: legal instruments and the politics of environmental management in Istanbul, Turkey; research-management as an approach to solving environmental conflicts in metropolitan areas: a case study of the Manizales-Villamaria Conurbation, Columbia; Community based environmental management in urban Tanzania.