Consuming cities : the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio Declaration /: the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio Declaration. (2005)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nicholas Low [and others].
• Other Names: Low, Nicholas
• Contents: Cities as consumers of the world's environment / Brendan Glesson and Nicholas Low -- The Rio Declaration and subsequent global initiatives / Ingemar Elander and Rolf Lidskog -- A rough road out of Rio: the right-wing reaction in the United States against global environmentalism / Timothy W Luke -- Contradictions at the local scale: local implementation of Agenda 21 in the USA / Robert W Lake -- Britain: unsustainable cities / Andrew Blowers and Stephen Young -- Sustainablitiy and urban policy in Germany: retrospect and prospect / Anke Valentin, Martin Gurtler and Joachim H Spangenberg -- Japanese urban policy: challenges of the Rio Earth Summit / Fukashi Utsunomiya and Toshio Hase. China's urban environmental sustainability in a global context /
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2005
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages), (18 illustrations)
• Subjects: 304.2/09173/2; Urban ecology (Sociology); Sustainable development; Sustainable development; Urban ecology (Sociology)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134661114; 1134661118
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.