Cities, Nature and Development (eBook, PDF)

The Politics and Production of Urban Vulnerabilities
Redaktion: Dooling, Sarah; Simon, Gregory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this edited volume illustrates how and why cities are comprised by a mosaic of vulnerable human and ecological communities. Case studies range across various international settings and reveal how 'urban vulnerabilities' is an effective metaphor and analytic lens for advancing political ecological theories on the relationship between humans and the environment in urban settings

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317165972
• Artikelnr.: 45099608

Autorenporträt

Dr Sarah Dooling, University of Texas Austin, USA and Dr Gregory Simon, University of Colorado Denver, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Geographies of Wealth and risk Accumulation: Neoliberal Policy and Resource Instrumentalism; Chapter 1 Cities
Nature and Development: The Politics and Production of Urban Vulnerabilities
Sarah Dooling
Gregory Simon; Chapter 2 Development
Risk Momentum and the Ecology of Vulnerability: A Historical'"relational Analysis of the 1991 Oakland Hills Firestorm
Gregory Simon; Chapter 3 The Neoliberal Production of Vulnerability and Unequal Risk
Timothy W. Collins
Anthony M. Jimenez; Chapter 4 The Production of Urban Vulnerability Through Market-based Parks Governance
Harold A. Perkins; Part 2 Unanticipated Vulnerabilities: Sustainability Planning
Environmental Movements
and Activism; Chapter 5 Re-imagining the Local: Scale
Race
Culture and the Production of Food Vulnerabilities
Julian Agyeman
Benjamin L. Simons; Chapter 6 Sustainability Planning
Ecological Gentrification and the Production of Urban Vulnerabilities
Sarah Dooling; Chapter 7 Between Here and There: Mobilizing Urban Vulnerabilities in Climate Camps and Transition Towns
Kelvin Mason
Mark Whitehead; Part 3 Vulnerabilities in the Urbanizing Context: Cultural and Demographic Transformations; Chapter 8 Co-opting Restoration: Women
Voluntarism
and Insurgent Performance in Philadelphia
Alec Brownlow; Chapter 9 Rust-to-resilience: Local Responses to Urban Vulnerabilities in Utica
New York
Jessica K. Graybill; Chapter 10 The Privilege of Staying Dry: The Impact of Flooding and Racism on the Emergence of the Mexican Ghetto in Austin's Low-Eastside
1880'"1935
Eliot M. Tretter
Melissa Adams; Chapter 11 Epilogue
Sarah Dooling
Gregory Simon;