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The peri-urban interface : approaches to sustainable natural and human resource use
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ISBN: 1136536078 1282789244 9786612789243 1441673032 1849775877 1844071871 184407188X 9781844071876 9781844071883 9781136536076 9781441673039 9781849775878 9781282789241 6612789247 9781136536021 9781136536069 113653606X Year: 2006 Publisher: London ; Sterling, Va. : Earthscan,

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Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and innovative approaches and solutions.This book, authored by top researchers and practitioners, covers the full breadth and depth of the impacts of rapid urbanization on livelihoods, poverty and resource


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Cities, nature and development : the politics and production of urban vulnerabilities
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ISBN: 1317165977 1317165969 1283479737 9786613479730 1409408329 9781409408321 9781283479738 9781315572123 1315572125 9781409408314 1409408310 9781317165958 9781317165965 9781138255364 Year: 2016 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this edited volume illustrates how and why cities are comprised by a mosaic of vulnerable human and ecological communities. Case studies range across various international settings and reveal how ""urban vulnerabilities"" is an effective metaphor and analytic lens for advancing political ecological theories on the relationship between humans and the environment in urban settings

Timescapes of modernity : the environment and invisible hazards
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ISBN: 1134715374 1280138114 9786610138111 0203981383 9780203981382 6610138117 0415162742 9780415162746 9780415162753 0415162750 0415162750 9781134715374 9781280138119 9781134715329 9781134715367 1134715366 Year: 1998 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Introducing a unique 'timescape' perspective the author reexamines environmental problems and their cures and provides the potential for innovative new strategies to deal with environmental hazards.

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