Human settlements and planning for ecological sustainability : the case of Mexico City /

In many areas of the world, environmental degradation in and around human settlements is undermining prospects for both socioeconomic justice and ecological sustainability. To explore the issues involved in this worldwide problem, Keith Pezzoli focuses on a dramatic instance of conflict that grew ou...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pezzoli, Keith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.
Series:Urban and industrial environments.
Subjects:
Land use > Mexico > Mexico City.
Sustainable development > Mexico > Mexico City.
Land use > Mexico > Mexico City > Planning > Citizen participation.
Utilisation du sol > Mexique > Mexico.
Développement durable > Mexique > Mexico.
Utilisation du sol > Mexique > Mexico > Planification > Participation des citoyens.
Environnement > Mexique > Mexico.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science (see also Chemistry > Environmental)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
Ecology.
Land use.
Land use > Planning > Citizen participation.
Sustainable development.
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Communities - Urban Groups.
Mexico City (Mexico) > Environmental conditions.
Ajusco (Mexico)
Ajusco (Mexique)
Mexico > Ajusco.
Mexico > Mexico City.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / John Friedman
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction (starting p. 3)
  • 2 Mexico City's Current Status: A Global and Comparative Perspective (starting p. 37)
  • 3 Urban-Environmental Policy and Planning: International Agendas/Local Realities (starting p. 69)
  • 4 Mexico City's Urban-Ecological Coevolution (starting p. 107)
  • 5 State-Society Relations and the Production of Human Settlements (starting p. 143)
  • 6 Ecological Arguments and the Politics of Containment (starting p. 163)
  • 7 The Expansion of Irregular Settlements into the Greenbelt Zone of Ajusco (starting p. 193)
  • 8 Key Actors and the Overall Balance of Forces (starting p. 225)
  • 9 Popular Mobilization in the Formation of Los Belvederes: Origins, Structures and Agendas (starting p. 245)
  • 10 Grassroots Environmental Action at the Frontier: The Colonia Ecologica Productiva Movement (starting p. 271)
  • 11 Ecology as Politics (starting p. 313)
  • 12 Conclusion (starting p. 341)
  • References (starting p. 359)
  • Index (starting p. 429)

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