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Urbanization and Sustainability

Linking Urban Ecology, Environmental Justice and Global Environmental Change

  • Offers a global perspective on environmental justice and urbanization in the face of environmental change
  • Includes a wide range of case study research on global environmental change and cities of various sizes
  • Provides lessons for equitable, sustainable practices in response to environmental change in the urban century

Part of the book series: Human-Environment Interactions (HUEN, volume 3)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Towards a New Framework for Urbanization and Sustainability

    • Michail Fragkias, Christopher G. Boone
    Pages 1-10
  3. What Is a City? An Essential Definition for Sustainability

    • Peter J. Marcotullio, William Solecki
    Pages 11-25
  4. Ecology and Environmental Justice: Understanding Disturbance Using Ecological Theory

    • Steward T. A. Pickett, Christopher G. Boone, Mary L. Cadenasso
    Pages 27-47
  5. Connecting Environmental Justice, Sustainability, and Vulnerability

    • Christopher G. Boone, Michail Fragkias
    Pages 49-59
  6. Risky Business: Cap-and-Trade, Public Health, and Environmental Justice

    • Manuel Pastor, Rachel Morello-Frosch, James Sadd, Justin Scoggins
    Pages 75-94
  7. Double Exposure in the Sunbelt: The Sociospatial Distribution of Vulnerability in Phoenix, Arizona

    • Bob Bolin, Juan Declet Barreto, Michelle Hegmon, Lisa Meierotto, Abigail York
    Pages 159-178
  8. Climate Change, Urban Flood Vulnerability, and Responsibility in Taipei

    • Li-Fang Chang, Karen C. Seto, Shu-Li Huang
    Pages 179-198
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 199-201

About this book

Case studies explore the Million Trees initiative in Los Angeles; the relationship of cap-and-trade policy, public health, greenhouse gas emissions and environmental justice in Southern California; Urbanization, vulnerability and environmental justice in the Brazilian cities of Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba and São Paulo, and in Antofagasta, Greater Concepción and Valparaiso in Chile; Sociospatial patterns of vulnerability in the American southwest; and Urban flood control and land use planning in Greater Taipei, Taiwan ROC.

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From the reviews:

“This collection of 11 essays is a fine contribution to the burgeoning body of literature concerned with environmental issues. Editors Boone and Fragkias have assembled a useful and intriguing mixture of essays with the ultimate goal of achieving an interdisciplinary synthesis for further discussion and contemplation. … Those based in the disciplines of geography and sociology will be most intrigued by the scholarship offered in this text. … Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (P. Gamsby, Choice, Vol. 50 (11), July, 2013)

Editors and Affiliations

  • , School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

    Christopher G. Boone

  • , College of Business and Economics, Boise State University, Boise, USA

    Michail Fragkias

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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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