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The Citizens at Risk: From Urban Sanitation to Sustainable Cities
Contributor(s): McGranahan, Gordon (Author), Songsor, Jacob (Author), Surjadi, Charles (Author)
ISBN: 1853835625     ISBN-13: 9781853835629
Publisher: Routledge
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2001
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Annotation: At different levels this book addresses: 1: the challenge of improving health conditions in deprived urban settlements; 2: the challenge of sustainable urban development in a globalizing world; and 3: environmental justice and urban development.It analyzes how environmental and health risks arise in cities, who has to bear them and why, focusing on cities in Asia, Africa and South America. On the basis of this understanding it explains how conditions can be improved for those living in these rapidly growing cities and argues that environmental justice provides a more meaningful measure and goal for urban environmental improvement than 'sustainable development'.
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development
- Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development
- Social Science | Sociology - Rural
Dewey: 307.72
LCCN: 2001003254
Series: Earthscan Risk in Society
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.27" W x 9.49" (1.01 lbs) 216 pages
 
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Local environments such as cities and neighbourhoods are becoming a focal point for those concerned with environmental justice and sustainability. The Citizens at Risk takes up this emerging agenda and analyses the key issues in a refreshingly simple yet sophisticated style.
Taking a comparative look at cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, the book examines: the changing nature of urban environmental risks, the rules governing the distribution of such risks and their differential impact, how the risks arise and who is responsible
The authors clearly describe the most pressing urban environmental challenges, such as improving health conditions in deprived urban settlements, ensuring sustainable urban development in a globalizing world, and achieving environmental justice along with the greening of development. They argue that current debates on sustainable development fail to come to terms with these challenges, and call for a more politically and ethically explicit approach.
For policy makers, students, academics, activists or concerned general readers, this book applies a wealth of empirical analysis and theoretical insight to the interaction of citizens, their cities and their environment.