Saling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back

Management of Environmental Quality

ISSN: 1477-7835

Article publication date: 2 October 2007

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Citation

(2007), "Saling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 18 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2007.08318fae.001

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2007, Emerald Group Publishing Limited


Saling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back

Edited by Peter J. Marcotullio and Gordon McGranahanEarthscanLondonMarch 2007ISBN 978-1-84407-323-8399 pp.£22.95

“Think globally, act locally” emphasizes the importance of scale in dealing with environmental challenges, but not how to factor it in. This major new book focuses on the spatial dimensions of urban environmental burdens, showing how important it is to take these into account when pursuing environmental justice and good governance – whether in the context of the sanitary risks of slum living, the pollution of uncontrolled industrialization and motorization, or the enormous ecological footprints of affluent urban lifestyles.

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