| Description |
1 online resource (282 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; 1 Urban political ecology; 2 Metabolic urbanization; 3 Metropolitics and metabolics; 4 Urban nature and the ecological imaginary; 5 Nature's carnival; 6 The desire to metabolize nature; 7 Turfgross subjects; 8 Justice of eating in the city; 9 Metabolisms of obe-city; 10 The political ecology of water scarcity; 11 The metabolic processes of capital accumulation in Durban's waterscape; 12 The public/private conundrum of urban water |
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13 Inherited fragmentations and narratives of environmental control in entrepreneurial Philadelphia14 Transnational alliances and global politics; 15 Urban metabolism as target; Index |
| Summary |
Includes urban case studies, international research and contributions from prominent urban scholars, this book describes how interrelated, everyday economic, political and cultural processes form and transform urban environments. It is aimed at the students, scholars and researchers of geographical, environmental and urban studies |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Political ecology.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Urban ecology (Biology)
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urban environments.
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Urban ecology (Biology)
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Political ecology.
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Urban ecology (Sociology)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kaika, Maria
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| ISBN |
9780203027523 |
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0203027523 |
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1280377275 |
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9781280377273 |
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