Handbook of Cities and the Environment

Name: Handbook of Cities and the Environment
Brand: Edward Elgar Publishing
Price: 277.8 EUR
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Kevin Archer Kris Bezdecny(Editor)

Edward Elgar Publishing

Published on 30. December 2016

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Hardback

480 pages

978-1-78471-225-9 (ISBN)

€277.80incl. 7% vat

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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

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'How are cities both at the root of our environmental problems yet central to solving them? The essays assembled here offer rich responses, through a blend of theoretical reflection and empirical analysis. It will be an excellent resource for urbanists across the disciplines.' -- Noel Castree, University of Wollongong, Australia 'If urban environments continue to be a new frontier for understanding the interconnected dynamics of socio-natural progress and uneven development, and I believe they are, then this book is important reading for sharpening and deepening our collective understandings about how the production of urban nature(s) necessitates robust theoretical consideration backed by decisive action.' -- Nik Heynen, University of Georgia

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