Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles (Society, Environment, and Place)
By Unknown Author.
Description
Pollution of air, soil, and waterways has become a primary concern of urban environmental policy making, and over the past two decades there has emerged a new era of urban policy that links development with ecological issues, based on the notion that both nature and the economy can be enhanced through technological changes to production and consumption systems. This book takes a new look at this application of "ecological modernization" to contemporary urban political-ecological struggles. Considering policy processes around land-use in urban watersheds and pollution of air and so...
ISBN(s)
0816523738, 9780816523733
