Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges

by Marcotullio, Peter J.; McGranahan, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9781844073221
• ISBN10: 184407322X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-03-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"Think globally, act locally" emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, and shows how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental justice and good governance--whether in the context of the sanitary risks of slum living, the pollution of uncontrolled industrialization and motorization, or the enormous ecological footprints of affluent urban lifestyles. The volume reviews the urban environmental transitions that have shaped today's challenges and proceeds to examine conditions and problems in the urban centers of low, middle, and high income countries. Case studies examine such economically diverse cities as Accra, New Delhi, Mexico City, and Manchester, and thematic chapters explore issues including water, sanitation, and transportation. It ends by examining different scales of governance. The editors argue that it is an error to rely solely on local governance to address local burdens like poor sanitation, or on global governance for global challenges such as greenhouse gas emissions, but that scale is crucial in both understanding the problems and devising successful responses.

Table of Contents

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. xi
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations	p. xv
Scaling the Urban Environmental Challenge	p. 1
Urban Transitions and the Spatial Displacement of Environmental Burdens	p. 18
Variations of Urban Environmental Transitions: The Experiences of Rapidly Developing Asia-Pacific Cities	p. 45
In Pursuit of a Healthy Urban Environment in Low- and Middle-income Nations	p. 69
Improving Urban Water and Sanitation Services: Health, Access and Boundaries	p. 106
Poverty and the Environmental Health Agenda in a Low-income City: The Case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana	p. 132
Dynamics of Growth and Process of Degenerated Peripheralization in Delhi: An Analysis of Socio-economic Segmentation and Differentiation in Micro-environments	p. 156
Motorization in Rapidly Developing Cities	p. 179
A Comparative Perspective on Urban Transport and Emerging Environmental Problems in Middle-income Cities	p. 206
Fixing Environmental Agendas in Mexico	p. 235
In Pursuit of the Sustainable City	p. 274
The Metabolism of Urban Affluence: Notes from the Greater Manchester City-region	p. 291
Locating the 'Local Agenda': Preserving Public Interest in the Evolving Urban World	p. 331
Index	p. 355
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