Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles

by Gene Desfor and Roger Keil

Pollution of air, soil, and waterways has become a primary concern of urban environmental policy making, and over the past two decades there has emerged a new era of urban policy that links development with ecological issues, based on the notion that both nature and the economy can be enhanced through technological changes to production and consumption systems. This book takes a new look at this application of "ecological modernization" to contemporary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816523738
• ISBN13: 9780816523733
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"