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Title The urban transformation : health, shelter and climate change / edited by Elliott D. Sclar, Nicole Volavka-Close and Peter Brown
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2013

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Description xvii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1.Understanding the twenty-first century urban transformation: A Global South perspective / Nicole Volavka-Close -- 2.Evolving urban health risks: Housing, water and sanitation, and climate change / Gordon Mcgranahan -- 3.Urban health systems / Trudy Harpham -- 4.Healthy urban governance and population health: Participatory budgeting in Belo Horizonte, Brazil / Waleska T. Caiaffa -- 5.Addressing health vulnerabilities of the urban poor in the ̀new urban settings' of Asia / Tran Le Thuy -- 6.The need for shelter finance improvements / Diana Mitlin -- 7.Innovations in shelter finance / Diana Mitlin -- 8.Investing in urban water and sanitation systems / Catarina Fonseca -- 9.Perceiving the social and economic consequences of natural disaster shocks or getting ready for climate change / John C. Mutter -- 10.The urbanization of climate change: Responding to a new global challenge / Shagun Mehrotra
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject City planning.
Sustainable urban development.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban health.
Urban poor.
Urbanization -- Environmental aspects.
Author Brown, Peter (Peter G.), 1948-
Sclar, Elliott.
Volavka-Close, Nicole.
LC no. 2012003296
ISBN 9780203107683 (ebook)
9781849712156 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781849712163 (paperback: alk. paper)