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Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges From Local to Global and Back

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?Think globally act locally? emphasizes the importance of scale in dealin.

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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?Think globally act locally? emphasizes the importance of scale in dealin."@en
  • "?Think globally, act locally? emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, showing how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental justice and good governance - whether in the context of the sanitary risks of slum living, the pollution of uncontrolled industrialization and motorization, or the enormous ecological footprints of affluent urban lifestyles.Written by leading experts in the fields of urban development and envir."

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  • "Scaling urban environmental challenges : from local to global and back"
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  • "Scaling urban environmental challenges from local to global and back"

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