The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas
The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas
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Author(s): Atkinson, Adrian
ISBN No.: 9781138343528
Pages: 311
Year: 201906
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 201.99
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1. The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas: An Introduction. Adrian Atkinson and Julio D. Dávila. Part 1. Policy. 2. Policy and Politis in Urban Environmental Management.


Edésio Fernandes. 3. Creating Metropolitan Environmental Strategies. Kalyan Biswas . 4. Issues of Inequality in Managing Water Supply in Asian Cities. P. B.


Anand. 5. Environmental Management in the Cape Metropolitan Area. Amanda Younge. 6. The National Urban Parks Programme in Santiago, Chile. Sergio F. León Balza.


7. The Governnace of Waste Management in African Cities. J. M. Lusugga Kironde. 8. What's Health Got to Do with It? Using Environmental Health to Guide Priority-setting Towards Equitable Environmental Management in Cities. Carolyn Stephens.


Part 2. Management. 9. Management of the Urban Environment. Michael Mattingly . 10. Air Pollution in São Paulo: The challenge for Environmental Co-responsibility and Innovative Crisis Management. Pedro Jacobi and Nelson Gouveia.


11. Sustainable Urban Development and the Urban Poor in Rio de Janeiro. David J. Edelman, Paul Procee and Claudio Acioly Jr. 12. Solid Waste Management in Copenhagen. Jeff Cooper. 13.


The Social 'Nature' of Floods in Buenos Aires: Rainfall Increase or Higher Vulnerability? Osvaldo Girardin and Gabriela Greco . 14. Solid Waste Management in Colombo. V.U. Ratnayake. 15. The Working Group Approach to Environmental Management under the Accra Sustainable Programme.


Ben K. Doe and Doris Tetteh. 16. The Development of a Systematic Approach to Urban Environmental Planning and Management in Thailand. Adrian Atkinson. Part 3. Organisation and Politics. 17.


Organisation and Politics in Urban Environmental Management. Julio D. Dávila and Adrian Atkinson. 18. Beyond the Myths of the New Environmental Localism. Simon Marvin and Simon Guy. 19. Local-International Partnerships in Metropolitan Environmental Management: Latin American Experiences.


Adriana Allen. 20. The Local Agenda 21 Process in the United Kingdom: Lessons for Policy and Practice in Stakeholder Participation. Chris Church. 21. Negotiating the Local-Central Government Relationship: Experience from Flood Hazard Management. John Handmer. 22.


Decentralisation, Local Automony and Metropolitan Influence: The Case of Salvador, Brazil. Celina Souza. 23. Controversy over the Preservation of a Metropolitan Area's Fresh Water Reservoirs: Legal Instruments and the Politics of Environmental Management in Istanbul, Turkey. Ayse Yonder. 24. Research-Management as an Approach to Solving Environmental Conflicts in Metropolitan Areas: A Case Study of the Manizales-Villamaría Conurbation, Colombia. Luz Stella Velásquez and Margarita Pacheco.


25. Community-Based Environmental Management in Urban Tanzania. Alphonce G. Kyessi.


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