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Handbook of Cities and the Environment - Hardcover

 
9781784712259: Handbook of Cities and the Environment
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1784712256 ISBN 13: 9781784712259
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

With an ever-growing majority of the world's human population living in city-spaces, the relationship between cities and nature will be one of the key environmental issues of the 21st Century. This timely book investigates how the rapidly growing number of city dwellers across the globe relate to their natural environments and what this means for the future of these environments.

Offering an interdisciplinary approach to the impacts of urban spaces on the future of the environment, the book is a full-scale attempt to radically rethink the relationship between cities and nature. The editors bring together a diverse set of well-known authors and new voices to explore the various aspects of this relationship both theoretically and empirically. Rather than considering cities as wholly separate from nature, a running theme throughout the book is that cities, and city dwellers, should be characterized as intrinsic in the creation of specifically urban-generated 'socio-natures'.

An essential resource for those working at the intersection of cities and the environment, it will be of great value to urbanists, geographers, planners, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, policy makers, public administrators and environmental scientists.

Contributors include: K. Archer, L. Benton-Short, J.M. Berry, G. Bettini, K. Bezdecny, J. Bratt, V.C. Broto, K. Davidson, R.M. Friend, N. Gabriel, B. Gleeson, L. Guibrunet, D. Houston, R. Jones, M. Kaika, L. Karaliotas, M. Keeley, J. Kitson, T.W. Luke, R. Pizarro, K.E. Portney, J. Ravetz, J. Rennie Short, J. Rowland, T.G. Smith, E. Swyngedouw, P. Thinphanga, R.H. Wilson

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About the Author

Edited by Kevin Archer, Professor and Dean, School of Graduate Studies and Research, Central Washington University and Kris Bezdecny, Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences and Environment, California State University, Los Angeles, US

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Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1784712256
ISBN 13 
9781784712259
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
480
Editor
Archer Kevin, Bezdecny Kris