Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cities and the environment-- towards eco-partnerships / Takashi Inoguchi, Edward Newman, and Glen Paoletto
  • Ecological "rules" of a sustainable society / Ernest Callenbach
  • Urban environmental management : a partnership continuum / Hari Srinivas
  • Concept and civilization of an eco-society : dilemmas, innovations, and urban dramas / Voula Mega
  • Sustainable urban societies : a technological or a political goal? / Edward Newman
  • Civil society and the urban environment / Ooi Giok Ling
  • Institutional capacity-building approach to urban environmental governance in medium-sized cities in Latin America and the Caribbean / Daniela Simioni
  • After the dam age is done : social capital and eco-partnerships in urban watersheds / James E. Nickum
  • New approach to disaster mitigation and planning in mega-cities : the pivotal role of social vulnerability in disaster risk management / German T. Velasquez [and others]
  • Life cycle assessment : its prospects as a tool for creating a sustainable economic system / Monte Cassim
  • Rainwater in cities : a note on ecology and practice / Klaus W. König
  • Communities, markets, and city government : innovative roles for coastal cities in reducing marine pollution in the Asia-Pacific region / Lyuba Zarsky and Jason Hunter
  • Cultivating an urban eco-society : the United Nations response / Nitin Desai
  • Economic assessment of China-Japan cooperation to address acid rain / Jusen Asuka-Zhang
  • New paradigm of North-South relations : implications of international cooperation by local authorities in Japan / Toshihiro Manju
  • Urban governance in the new economy / Glen Paoletto.