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World cities and climate change [Book] : producing urban ecological security / Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Issues in society | Issues in societyPublication details: Maidenhead ; New York : Open University Press, 2010.Description: xix, 160 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780335237302 (pbk.)
  • 0335237304 (pbk.)
  • 9780335237296
  • 0335237290
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.73874525091732 22
Other classification:
  • 363.73874525091732
Contents:
Part I. Theory, concepts and issues. The politics of governing cities, infrastructures and resource flows ; 'New' pressures : mediating cities, infrastructures and resource flows -- Part II. Urban responses. Rebundled urban network ecologies ; Secure urbanism and resilient infrastructure in world cities -- Part III. Implications, limits and alternatives. The 'metropolitanization' of ecological resources ; Conclusions : producing urban ecological security.
Summary: Relationships between cities and energy, water, waste and transport networks are changing. World Cities and Climate Change argues that this is not something that is happening naturally but is the product of social, economic, political and spatial processes and that these changes have profound implications for the shape of contemporary and future cities.
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Books Books Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 363.73874525091732 HOD-W (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 47935
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Theory, concepts and issues. The politics of governing cities, infrastructures and resource flows ; 'New' pressures : mediating cities, infrastructures and resource flows -- Part II. Urban responses. Rebundled urban network ecologies ; Secure urbanism and resilient infrastructure in world cities -- Part III. Implications, limits and alternatives. The 'metropolitanization' of ecological resources ; Conclusions : producing urban ecological security.

Relationships between cities and energy, water, waste and transport networks are changing. World Cities and Climate Change argues that this is not something that is happening naturally but is the product of social, economic, political and spatial processes and that these changes have profound implications for the shape of contemporary and future cities.

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