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Reducing Poverty and Sustaining the Environment
'A valuable contribution to our collective knowledge about governance, poverty and the environment' Frances Seymour, World Resources Institute 'Detailed and realistic documentation …
Cities on a Finite Planet
Cities on a Finite Planet: Transformative responses to climate change shows how cities can combine high quality living conditions, resilience to climate change, disaster risk …
Cities for Children
Urban authorities and organizations are responsible for providing the basic services that affect the lives of urban children. Cities for Children is intended to help them …
The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities
The last five years have brought an enormous growth in the literature on how urban development can meet human needs and ensure ecological sustainability. This collection brings …
Environmental Problems in Third World Cities
Describes and analyses the environmental problems of Third World cities, showing how they affect human health and the local ecology. The authors show how readily available …
Adapting Cities to Climate Change
This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in …
Urban Poverty in the Global South
One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South – mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with …
Squatter Citizen
'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World' Environment and Planning 'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: …
Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World
New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America contain some of the world's most life- and health-threatening human …
Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South
Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world’s urban population and are projected to house almost all its increase between now and 2030. There is a growing …
Small And Intermediate Urban Centres
This book presents conclusions from the first phase of a collaborative research programme on the potential role of small and intermediate urban centres in the development process. …
Funding Community Initiatives
Despite four decades of development planning, at least one third of the urban population of Africa, Asia and Latin America remains poor. Over 600 million live in 'life and health …