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Scaling urban environmental challenges : from local to global and back / edited by Peter J. Marcotullio and Gordon McGranahan.

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London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007.

Urbanization -- Environmental aspects.

Cities and towns -- Growth.

Urban ecology (Sociology)

Sustainable development.

1844073238 (pbk.)

9781844073238 (pbk.)

9781844073221 (hardback)

184407322X (hardback)

Scaling the urban environmental challenge / Peter J. Marcotullio and Gordon McGranahan -- Urban transitions and the spatial displacement of environmental burdens / Gordon McGranahan -- Variations of urban environmental transitions : the experiences of rapidly developing Asia Pacific cities / Peter J. Marcotullio -- In pursuit of a healthy urban environment in low- and middle-income nations / David Satterthwaite -- Improving urban services : indicators of access and the implication of boundaries / Kristof Bostoen, Pete Kolsky, and Caroline Hunt -- Poverty and the environmental health agenda in a low-income city : the case of the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana / Jacob Songsore & Gordon McGranahan -- Dynamics of growth and process of degenerated peripheralization in Delhi : an analysis of socio-economic segmentation and differentiation in micro environment / Amitabh Kundu -- Motorization in rapidly developing cities / Yok-shiu F. Lee -- A comparative perspective on urban transport and emerging environmental problems in middle income cities / Jeff Kenworthy and Craig Townsend -- Fixing environmental agendas in Mexico / Priscilla Connolly -- In pursuit of the sustainable city / Graham Haughton -- The metabolism of urban affluence : notes from the Greater Manchester city-region / Joe Ravetz -- Locating the "local agenda" : preserving public interest in the evolving urban world / Jeb Brugmann.

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