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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
Sustainable development. --- Urbanization. --- Land use. --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Environmental aspects --- Land use --- Urbanization --- 504.75 --- 711.417 --- 504.75 Human ecology and human environment --- Human ecology and human environment --- 711.417 Planologie: voorsteden --- Planologie: voorsteden
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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
Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Political ecology. --- Environmental policy. --- Nature --- Anthropogenic effects on nature --- Ecological footprint --- Human beings --- Anthropogenic soils --- Human ecology --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Social ecology --- Green movement --- Cities and towns --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Sociology, Urban --- Effect of human beings on. --- Government policy --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental policy --- Political ecology --- 504.75 --- 911.3:32 --- 911.375 --- 911.3:32 Geopolitiek. Politieke geografie --- Geopolitiek. Politieke geografie --- 504.75 Human ecology and human environment --- Human ecology and human environment --- Effect of human beings on --- Urban settlements (their study and geography). Towns. Cities
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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.
Human ecology. --- Time. --- Environmental economics. --- Economic development --- Eco-development --- Ecodevelopment --- Economics --- Environmental quality --- Hours (Time) --- Geodetic astronomy --- Nautical astronomy --- Horology --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Environmental aspects. --- Environmental aspects --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Environmental economics --- Human ecology --- Time --- #SBIB:316.334.5U34 --- 316.334.2 --- 316.42 --- 504.75 --- 911.3:30 --- 504.75 Human ecology and human environment --- Human ecology and human environment --- 316.42 Social change. Sociale ontwikkeling. Sociale veranderingen. Modernisering. Evolutie .Sociale revolutie. Modernisme --- Social change. Sociale ontwikkeling. Sociale veranderingen. Modernisering. Evolutie .Sociale revolutie. Modernisme --- 316.334.2 Economische sociologie. Industriele sociologie --- Economische sociologie. Industriele sociologie --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: milieuproblematiek --- Social geography --- Human ecology. Social biology --- Economic geography --- Economic development - Environmental aspects.
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