Cities and environmental change : from crisis to transformation
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Cities and environmental change : from crisis to transformation
Cambridge University Press, 2025
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-304) and index
Contents of Works
- 1. Introduction : Setting climate change within the narrative of urban environmental crises and transformation
- 2. Why do cities face environmental crises?
- 3. What about cities make them places for environmental problem-solving?
- 4. How urban systems change
- 5. Natural resource supply and scarcity : securing urban drinking water
- 6. Environment degradation and quality : urban air pollution
- 7. Public health : disease and epidemics
- 8. Environmental risk and hazards : acute and chronic events
- 9. Resource use efficiency and pathways to environmental sustainability : the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle)
- 10. Mobility, livability, and sustainability : balancing economics, ecology, and equity
- 11. Urban environmental crises and policy transitions
- 12. Opportunities to advance environmental policy transitions and transformative climate action
