CITIES: steering towards sustainability
- Author(s): Pierre Jacquet, Rajendra K Pachauri and Laurence Tubiana
- Pages : 272 pages
- Binding : Paperback
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9788179931318
- Cover Price:
Rs.595.00 / US $40.00
- Special Price: Rs. 536.00 / US $36.00
Book Details
The twenty-first century is already an urban one. Cities are pivotal to sustainability concerns – globalization, climate change, food security, environmental protection, and innovation.Today's urban actors, both citizens and their leaders, have a major responsibility as trustees of the future: their present actions will influence the shape and structure of cities, so that the generation to come may live healthy and contended lives. This volume takes the reader straight to the heart of how cities work, and identifies contemporary trends, mechanism and tools that can influence current strategies and choices.
The authors show that urbanization is not a problem per se for sustainable development, but rather that cities, in all their diversity and complexity, offer solutions as well as challenges. The reader will be inspired by vital analyses of the next decade’s window of opportunity for sustainable urban growth.
Key Features
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Papers by leading international experts and scholars
New perspectives from 80 cities across five continents
Multiple maps, charts, timelines and thematic focus essays
A wealth of ideas for specialists and non-specialists alike (policy makers, administrators, concerned citizens, development professionals, entrepreneurs, journalists, students and others)
Table of Contents
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General Overview
Sustainable Development In 2009: A global perspective
Pierre Jacquet, Rajendra Pachauri, Laurence Tubiana (editors)
Introduction
Cities: steering towards sustainability
Carine Barbier, Raphael Jozan, Vincent Renard, Sanjivi Sundar
ECONOMY
Chapter1: Globalization: an urban opportunity?
Pierre Veltz
Chapter2: 'World Class’ Cities: hubs of globalizations and high finance
Luise David, Ludovic Halbert
The risks of securitization
Vincent Renard
Chapter3: Sao Paolo: is fragmentation ineluctable?
Sergio Torres Moraes
ENVIRONMENT
Chapter4: India: when urban lifestyle determine the climate
Partha Mukhopadhyay
United States: renewable energy comes to town
Stephen Hammer, Michael Hyams
Chapter5: Rethinking the City: combining its form and flows
Serge Salat, Caroline Nowacki
China: moving towards energy efficiency
Nils Devernois
Chapter6: Africa: improve both environmental and human health
Florence Fournet, Blaise Nguendo Yongsi, Aude Meunier-Nikiema, Gerard Salem
The atmospheric cost of development
Christine Loh
Chapter7: The city returns to its hinterlands for natural resources
Bernard Barraque, Stephanie Pincetl
China: massive projects supply cities with water; Agriculture and the urban–rural nexus
Charles Baubion
Agriculture and the Urban-Rural Nexus
Jean-Lue Francois
SOCIAL
Chapter8: Access to water and access to the city
Sylvy Jaglin
Urban Services: overturning of dogmas
Olivier Coutard
South Asia: managing a limited resource
Anamika Barua, Ashok Jaitly
Chapter 9 Africa: where and how to house urban citizens
Marie Huchzermeyer
Tunis: why housing is inadequate
Morched Chabbi
Supporting federations of slum dwellers in Asia and Africa
Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite
Chapter10: Insecurity and Segregation: Rejecting an urbanism of fear
Luca Pattaroni, Yves Pedrazzini
GOVERNANCE
Chapter11: Inventing sustainable financing for cities
Thierry Paulaid
Development Aid: a comprehensive city-scale approach
Nathalie Le Denmat
Chapter12: Bridging the Ecologies of cities and of nature
Saskia Sassen
Inventing environmental cooperation in southeast Asia
Tai-Chee Wong
Chapter13: When emerging cities set standards;
Jeremie Cave, Joel Ruet
Chapter14: City Networks: expressing their needs, building expertise
lisabeth Gateau
Focus on urban world, urban challenges, global players, local stakes and countering the risks
Keywords
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