The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas: (Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice)

A collection of ground-breaking and thought-provoking papers written by some of the most distinguished, internationally known names in the field of urban sustainability. The experience of urban environmental management is presented from several countries in Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia. While containing critical analyses, the emphasis is placed on achievements and promising developments of vital importance to local administrators, policy-makers, town planners, academics, environmentalists and students alike.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction; Policy: Policy and politics in urban environmental management; Creating metropolitan environmental strategies; Issues of inequality in managing water supply in Asian cities; Environmental management in the Cape Metropolitan Area; The National Urban Parks programme in Santiago, Chile; The governance of waste management in African cities; What’s health got to do with it? Using environmental health to guide priority-setting towards equitable environmental management in cities. Management: Management of the urban environment; Air pollution in São Paulo: the challenge for environmental co-responsibility and innovative crisis management; Sustainable urban development and the urban poor in Rio de Janeiro; Solid waste management in Copenhagen; The social nature of floods in Buenos Aires: rainfall increase or higher vulnerability?; Solid waste management in Colombo; The working group approach to environmental management under the Accra sustainable programme; The development of a systematic approach to urban environmental planning and management in Thailand. Organization and Politics: Organization and politics in urban environmental management; Beyond the myths of the new environmental localism; Local-international partnerships in metropolitan environmental management: Latin American experiences; The local agenda 21 process in the United Kingdom: lessons for policy and practice in stakeholder participation; Negotiating the local-central government relationship: experience from flood hazard management; Decentralization, local autonomy and metropolitan influence: the case of Salvador, Brazil; Controversy over the preservation of a metropolitan area’s fresh water reservoirs: legal instruments and the politics of environmental management in Istanbul, Turkey; research-management as an approach to solving environmental conflicts in metropolitan areas: a case study of the Manizales-Villamaria Conurbation, Columbia; Community based environmental man