Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a difference.
Consuming Cities examines this impact using case studies from around the world including: the USA, Japan, Germany, the UK, China, India, Sweden, Poland, Australia and Indonesia The contributors all have direct experience of the urban environment and urban policies in the countries on which they write and offer an authoritative commentary which brings the urban 'consumption' dimension of sustainable development into focus.
Table of Contents
Cities as consumers of the world's environment / Brandan Gleeson and Nicholas Low -- The Rio Declaration and subsequent global initiatives / Ingemar Elander and Rolf Lidskog -- A rough road out of Rio : the right-wing reaction in the United States against global environmentalism / Timothy W. Luke -- Contradictions at the local scale : local implementation of Agenda 21 in the USA / Robert W. Lake -- Britain : unsustainable cities / Andrew Blowers and Stephen Young -- Sustainability and urban policy in Germany : retrospect and prospect / Anke Valentin, Martin Gèurtler and Joachim H. Spangenberg -- Japanese urban policy : challenges of the Rio Earth Summit / Fukashi Utsunomiya and Toshio Hase -- China's urban environmental sustainability in a global context / Yongyuan Yin and Mark Wang -- Agenda 21 and urban India / Asesh Kumar Maitra and Arvind Krishan -- After Rio : environmental policies and urban planning in Sweden / Rolf Lidskog and Ingemar Elander -- Poland : on the way to a market economy / Tadeusz Markowski and Helena Rouba -- Recent Australian urban policy and the environment : green or mean? / Peter Christoff and Nicholas Low -- Jakarta, Indonesia : kampung culture or consumer culture? / Lea Jellinek -- After Rio : urban environmental governance? / Nicholas Low ... et al..