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Elliott D. (Hrsg.) Sclar

The Urban Transformation

Health, Shelter and Climate Change

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For the first time in history, half of the world's population lives in urban areas and it is expected that, by 2050, that figure will rise to above two-thirds. A large proportion of this urban growth will be taking place in the cities of the developing world, where the provision of adequate health, shelter, water and sanitation and climate change adaptation efforts for rapidly-growing urban populations will be an urgent priority. This transition to an urban world could be a negative transformation; but, if well-planned, it could also offer an unprecedented opportunity to improve the lives of some of the world's poorest people. This volume bri… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Volavka-Close, Nicole (Hrsg.) / Brown, Peter (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-136-26296-8
  • EAN: 9781136262968
  • Produktnummer: 14834919
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Abbildungen: 11 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 12 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor


Elliott D. Sclar is Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD) at the Columbia University Earth Institute and Professor of Urban Planning in its Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. An economist and urban planner, Sclar was co-coordinator of the Taskforce on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers, one of ten United Nation's Millennium Project taskforces created to implement the Millennium Development Goals. Sclar is an economist and Urban Planner. His book You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization (2000), a critique of overreliance on market mechanisms, has won two major academic prizes.Nicole Volavka-Close is Associate Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD) at Columbia University's Earth Institute. She recently co-authored the paper 'Traffic impacts on PM2.5 air quality in Nairobi, Kenya' (2011) as well as the book chapter 'Improving Population Health in a Rapidly Urbanizing World' for the volume, Urban Health: A Global Perspective (2011). She is interested in the interdependent issues of urban health, transport and land use, and climate change. Peter Brown began his career as a senior editor at Scientific American, served as managing editor of Physics Today, and was named editor-in-chief of The Sciences in 1989. He remained at The Sciences until that magazine was closed in 2001. Shortly thereafter, he and his partners purchased Natural History magazine from the American Museum of Natural History, and he became editor-in-chief of that magazine. He now works as an independent editorial consultant.

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