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Environment and the City
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
‘Cities’ are now home for over half the world’s population – the hubs and gateways for capital, innovation, markets, resources and migration. On current trends the future may be a ‘planet of slums’ – many cities are places of poverty, crime and struggles for resources, where the ‘environment’ is...
Published June 18th 2009 by Routledge
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Environment and the City
Series: Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts
For the first time at the beginning of the twenty-first century, urban dwellers outnumber rural residents and this trend is set to continue. Consequently one of the most pressing issues of our time is how to square the social and economic development of cities with their environmental limits...
Published July 14th 2004 by Routledge