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  • ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN THIRD WORLD CITIES
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    ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN THIRD WORLD CITIES
    JORGE E. HARDOY / DIANA MITLIN / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
    Describes and analyses the environmental problems of Third World cities, showing how they affect human health and the local ecology. The authors show how readily available practical solutions are, if the political means can be found. ...

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  • THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE CITIES
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    THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE CITIES
    DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
    The last five years have brought an enormous growth in the literature on how urban development can meet human needs and ensure ecological sustainability. This collection brings together the most outstanding contributions from leading experts on the issues surrounding sustainable cities and urban development. The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities is fully international in s...

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  • SMALL AND INTERMEDIATE URBAN CENTRES
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    SMALL AND INTERMEDIATE URBAN CENTRES
    JORGE HARDOY / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE / DENISE STEWART
    This book is the result of contributions, help and support from numerous people and several agencies. We are particularly grateful to the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, the Swedish Council for Building Research and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) for funding the work on which this volume is based - and doing so befor...

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  • CITIES FOR CHILDREN
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    CITIES FOR CHILDREN
    SHERIDAN BARTLETT / ROGER HART / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE / XIMENA DE LA BARRA / ALFREDO MISSAIR
    Urban authorities and organizations are responsible for providing the basic services that affect the lives of urban children. Cities for Children is intended to help them understand and respond to the rights and requirements of children and adolescents. It looks at the responsibilities that authorities face, and discusses practical measures for meeting their obligations in the ...

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  • THE ENVIRONMENT FOR CHILDREN
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    THE ENVIRONMENT FOR CHILDREN
    DAVID SATTERTHWAITE / ET AL
    Each year, millions of children die of environmental causes and many more suffer serious illness or injury. Children are often the most vulnerable to the condition of their environment -and their health is an index of its quality - but their wellbeing is rarely given priority by governments or aid agencies. Ironically, the problems can be traced back to matters which can be tre...

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  • REDUCING URBAN POVERTY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
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    REDUCING URBAN POVERTY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    DAVID SATTERTHWAITE / DIANA MITLIN
    Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world’s urban population and are projected to house almost all its increase between now and 2030. There is a growing recognition that the scale of urban poverty has been overlooked – and that it is increasing both in numbers and in the proportion of the world’s poor population that live and work in urban areas. This is the f...

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  • EMPOWERING SQUATTER CITIZEN
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    EMPOWERING SQUATTER CITIZEN
    DIANA MITLIN / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
    With the rapid growth in urban poverty in Africa, Asia and Latin America, most cities now have 30 to 60 per cent of their population living in shanty towns. The civil and political rights of these people are either ignored or constantly contravened. They face multiple deprivations, including hunger, long hours working for inadequate incomes; illness, injury and premature deaths...

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  • REDUCING POVERTY AND SUSTAINING THE ENVIRONMENT
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    REDUCING POVERTY AND SUSTAINING THE ENVIRONMENT
    STEPHEN BASS / HANNAH REID / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE / PAUL STEELE
    'A valuable contribution to our collective knowledge about governance, poverty and the environment' Frances Seymour, World Resources Institute 'Detailed and realistic documentation of contemporary development and governance relationships and trends' Melissa Leach, Institute of Development Studies There are growing signs that development work by governments, aid agencies and non...

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  • URBAN POVERTY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
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    URBAN POVERTY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
    DIANA MITLIN / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
    One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South – mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate water, sanitation, health care and schools provision. This book explains how and why the scale and depth of urban poverty is so frequently under-estimated by governments and international agen...

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  • ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN AN URBANIZING WORLD
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    ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN AN URBANIZING WORLD
    JORGE E. HARDOY / DIANA MITLIN / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
    New edition of Environmental Problems in Third World Cities Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America contain some of the world's most life- and health-threatening human environments. Environment-related diseases and injuries cause millions of preventable deaths each year. In many squatter settlements, children are 40 to 50 times more likely to die before the age of five than th...

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  • SQUATTER CITIZEN
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    SQUATTER CITIZEN
    JORGE E. HARDOY / DAVID SATTERTHWAITE
    'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World' Environment and Planning 'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: as a plea for adoption of the 'popular approach'; as a text for student use; and as an accessible and stimulating guide to the urban problems of developing countries' Progress in Human Geography 'a very...

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