Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back

Author:   Peter J. Marcotullio ,  Gordon McGranahan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781844073238


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 December 2006
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Peter J. Marcotullio ,  Gordon McGranahan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Earthscan Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781844073238


ISBN 10:   1844073238
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   01 December 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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'With chapters by some of the most thoughtful international urban environmental scholars ... [and] many concrete examples from around the world, this volume advances the science by addressing issues of scale in both its meanings; the geographical scale of environmental interactions as well as the difficulties involved in scaling (overcoming) the many challenges of designing and promoting sustainable human environments worldwide' Kirk R. Smith, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA


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Peter J. Marcotullio is a Research Fellow at the UNU-IAS, Japan. Gordon McGranahan is Director of the Human Settlements Programme at IIED, UK co-author of The Citizens at Risk: From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities (2001) and co-editor of Air Pollution and Health in Rapidly Developing Countries (2003). .

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