Handbook of cities and the environment / edited by Kevin Archer, Kris Bezdecny.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Archer, Kevin, editor.

Bezdecny, Kris, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

With an ever-growing majority of the world's human population living in city-spaces, the relationship between cities and nature will be one of the key environmental issues of the 21st Century. This timely book investigates how the rapidly growing number of city dwellers across the globe relate to their natural environments and what this means for the future of these environments. Offering an interdisciplinary approach to the impacts of urban spaces on the future of the environment, the book is a full-scale attempt to radically rethink the relationship between cities and nature. The editors bring together a diverse set of well-known authors and new voices to explore the various aspects of this relationship both theoretically and empirically. Rather than considering cities as wholly separate from nature, a running theme throughout the book is that cities, and city dwellers, should be characterized as intrinsic in the creation of specifically urban-generated 'socio-natures'. An essential resource for those working at the intersection of cities and the environment, it will be of great value to urbanists, geographers, planners, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, policy makers, public administrators and environmental scientists. Contributors include: K. Archer, L. Benton-Short, J.M. Berry, G. Bettini, K. Bezdecny, J. Bratt, V.C. Broto, K. Davidson, R.M. Friend, N. Gabriel, B. Gleeson, L. Guibrunet, D. Houston, R. Jones, M. Kaika, L. Karaliotas, M. Keeley, J. Kitson, T.W. Luke, R. Pizarro, K.E. Portney, J. Ravetz, J. Rennie Short, J. Rowland, T.G. Smith, E. Swyngedouw, P. Thinphanga, R.H. Wilson

Contents:

Introduction / Kris Bezdecny

Urban imaginaries of city and nature / John Rennie Short

Re-naturing cities: great promises, deadlock...and new beginnings? / Erik Swyngedouw and Maria Kaika

Urban resilience, the local and the politics of the Anthropocene: reflections on the future of the urban environment / Lazaros Karaliotas and Giovanni Bettini

North American and European sustainable urbanism: toward a theoretical model for sustainable urban design / Rafael E. Pizarro

Sustainable urban futures: contested transitions and creative pathways / Joe Ravetz

Towards an urban metabolic analysis of the informal city / Louise Guibrunet and Vanesa Castán Broto

Urbanization, climate change, and regional integration in the Mekong / Richard M. Friend and Pakamas Thinphanga

Urban resilience to climate change challenges in Africa / Robert H. Wilson and Todd G. Smith

Urban flooding, vulnerability, and justice / Donald Houston

The group and ideological bases of local sustainability policies and programs / Kent E. Portney and Jeffrey M. Berry

Green space in urban sustainability plans: trends and best practices / Lisa Benton-Short, Melissa Keeley and Jennifer Rowland

Mending fences: constituting urban subjects through envronmental stewardship / Nate Gabriel

"Restoring" Seattle's river: competing conceptions of the Duwamish socio-nature / Kevin Archer and Kris Bezdecny

City sensing and urban aesthetics / Jennifer Kitson and Jonathan Bratt

Making Moorhen / Ryan Jones

The new urban assertions: no prospect there / Kathryn Davidson and Brendan Gleeson

Sustainability and the city / Timothy W. Luke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78471-226-4