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This book looks at how an increasingly urban world can also be a world where the ideas of sustainable development are put into practice; at concepts, theories and problems of sustainable development - from a developed and a developing world perspective, and considers regional perspectives, from Southeast Asia, North America and Eastern Europe.
List of contents
Introduction; Bernd Hamm and Pandurang K. Muttagi 1; Part i; Concepts, Theories, Problems; Understanding Sustainable Development; William E. Rees 19; Sustainable Development-A Third World Perspective; P.K. Muttagi 43; Sustainability Problems and Historical Transitions-A; Description in Terms of Changes in Metabolism and; Colonization Strategies; Marina Fischer-Kowalski and Helmut Haberl 57; The New Politics of Environmental Governance: Sustainable; Development on the Way to the Next Millennium? On-Kwok Lai 77; Challenges to Sustainability: Risk Perceptions by 'Lay People'; and Experts; Nikolai Genov 101; Property Rights as a Tool for Desirable Development; Peter Marcuse 121; The Future of Mega-cities: Planning Implication for a More; Sustainable Development; Salah El-Shakhs 133; Part II; Regional Perspectives; The New Politics of Environmental Governance Environmental; Sustainability and Life in the City: A Challenge for the Design; Professions; Charles Middleton 147; Local Self-Government for Sustainable Development: The; Philippines; Alex B. Brillantes 159; Sustainable Development in Developing Societies: The Case of; Planning Sustainable Urban Development under; Post-communist Conditions; Miroslaw Grochoivski 167; Sustainable Development or Loss of Cultural Urban Identity? Ljubinko Pusic 185; Part III; Local Answers; Sustainable Urban Management: Opportunities and Risks of; Information Technology; Ulrike Weiland and Lorenz Hilty 197; Sustainable Communities: Planning for the 21st Century; William E. Rees and Mark Roseland 203; Sustainable Development in Developing Societies: The Case of; Isfahan Region; Asghar Zarrabi 223; Sustainable Development in Urban Design: A Northern Aspect; Aarne Tarutnaa 231; Katowice-Economic Structure and Sustainable Development; Irena Jedrzejczyk Inge Osthoff 261; The Messages of Folk Architecture; Jadranka Veselic-Bruvo 271; Ecological Urban Development: An Experiment in Active; Learning; Bernd Hamm 283
About the author
Pandurang K. Muttagi was, before retirement, professor of sociology and head of the Urban Research Unit at the Tata Institute of Social Science, Bombay, India.
