Product Description

This text addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability with the pressing challenges facing some of the world's most underdeveloped areas. Various perspectives are brought to bear on issues from economics and theories of health through to the 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; and 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. The text is intended as a guidebook for those responsible for re-shaping cities in the 21st century.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #908560 in Books
• Published on: 2000-10-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
"Offers insights to those practitioners pondering the practicalities of the integration of sustainability goals into urban development. In particular, there is a good concluding chapter bringing the diverse, often overlapping, themes of the nine chapters into one well-summarized chapter. This eases the path of the reader in linking the richness of the dialogue." -- Planning Theory and Practice