The Citizens at Risk

, by McGranahan, Gordon; Jacobi, Pedro; Songsore, Jacob; Surjadi, Charles; Kjellen, Marianne

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ISBN: 9781853835612 | 1853835617
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Copyright: 8/1/2001

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Economics sometimes seems to be stacked against social, environmental, and individual wellbeing. But it doesn’t have to be like this. A new approach to economics - deriving as much from Ruskin and Schumacher as from Keynes or Smith - has begun to emerge.

List of Tables, Figures and Boxes

vii

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

xiii

Preface

Introduction

(13)

The Greening of the Concept of Development

(2)

The Emergence of Two Urban Environmental Agendas

(2)

The Relevance of Globalization

(1)

The City, Sustainable Development and Globalization

(4)

The Structure and Arguments of this Book

(3)

Urban Affluence and Shifting Environmental Burdens

(30)

Stylized Outlines of an Urban Environmental Transition

(20)

Qualifying the Urban Environmental `Transition'

(5)

Conclusions

(3)

Urban Water: From Health to Sustainability

(23)

Water and Urban Health

(12)

Water and Urban Sustainability

(8)

Conclusions

(2)

Shifting Environmental Challenges in Accra, Jakarta and Sao Paulo

(17)

Methods

(2)

The Three Cities in Context

(3)

Shifting Scales of Environmental Problems

(10)

Conclusions

(1)

Organizing Environmental Improvements in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Plans, Markets, Local Collective Action and Beyond

(31)

The Planning Model

(8)

The Market Model

(7)

The Local Collective Action Model

102

(9)

Hybrid Models

111

(4)

Techniques for Assessing Local Environmental Problems in Deprived Neighbourhoods

115

(15)

Broad-spectrum Household Surveys

117

(2)

Participatory Rapid Appraisal

119

(2)

Contingent Valuation of Environmental `Goods'

121

(2)

Comparing and Contrasting Different Methods

123

(4)

Lessons for Practitioners

127

(3)

Gender and Local Environmental Management in Accra

130

(27)

Gender and Age Divisions of Labour in Household Environmental Care: A Qualitative Account

134

(5)

Gender, Class and the Hazards of Managing the Local Environment: A Quantitative Analysis

139

(14)

Conclusions

153

(4)

Urban Environmental Justice in a Changing World

157

(20)

Eliminating Poverty and Achieving Sustainability: The End of a Honeymoon

160

(10)

Revisiting the `Brown' and the `Green' Urban Agendas and Striving for Environmental Justice

170

(7)

References

177

(18)

Index

195

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The Citizens at Risk

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