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1 online resource (376 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The essential connection : environmental sustainability, community stability and equitable development in struggling cities in high-income countries / Ted Howard -- Community action in informal settlements : strategies for improved environmental health and equity in low and middle income countries / David Satterthwaite -- Achieving environmental equity : race, place, and the movement to build healthy communities in the United States / Angela Glover Blackwell -- Building income and social equity through environmental sustainability : lessons from Vancouver's downtown eastside / Mitra Thompson -- New skills for the green economy : two training programs for job seekers in the United States / Cosmin Paduraru and Kara Quennell -- Green social entrepreneurship as a poverty-reduction strategy : tide india's use of technological innovation for healthier and more sustainable communities / Shannon Lockhart -- Moving towards sustainable urban transport : how can we integrate environmental, health and equity objectives globally? / David Banister and James Woodcock -- The new challenges of rapid urban growth : imperatives and strategies for transport in India / Madhav Badami -- Healthy and sustainable agriculture : working with farmers to transform food production in Latin America / Donald Cole, Gordon Prain and Willy Pradel -- Access to healthy foods in urban settings : a comprehensive strategy for low-income communities in Montreal / Lise Bertrand -- Water for development : investing in health and economic wellbeing globally / William Cosgrove and Hakan Tropp -- The potential of clean energy for equity in remote communities in the North / Tim Weis -- Remote indigenous populations and climate change : reducing the impacts on health and wellbeing / James Ford and Peter Adams. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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Environmental health.
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Conservation of natural resources.
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Medical policy.
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Economics -- Sociological aspects.
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Electronic books.
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Heymann, Jody, 1959-
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Barrera, Magda.
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Print version: Ensuring a sustainable future (2014) Ensuring a sustainable future : making progress on environment and equity. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014] xxxii, 343 pages 9780199974702 (DNLM)101610267 (DLC) 2013023768 |
| ISBN |
9780199974702 (alk. paper) |
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9780199974719 (electronic bk.) |
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