Ensuring a sustainable future : making progress on environment and equity /
Ensuring a sustainable future : making progress on environment and equity / [electronic resource]
edited by Jody Heymann and Magda Barrera.
- 1 online resource (376 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Håkan 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.
9780199974719 (e-book)
Environmental health.
Conservation of natural resources.
Medical policy.
Economics--Sociological aspects.
Electronic books.
RA427.8 / .E57 2014
362.1
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Håkan 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.
9780199974719 (e-book)
Environmental health.
Conservation of natural resources.
Medical policy.
Economics--Sociological aspects.
Electronic books.
RA427.8 / .E57 2014
362.1