The Basin of Mexico :: critical environmental issues and sustainability /

"The Basin of Mexico discusses the question of urban sustainability in Mexico City, one of the largest megacities on earth. Mexico City is an immense laboratory that reflects the environmental viability of the large cities of the developing world." "For some environmentalists, the urb...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 1999.
Schriftenreihe:UNU studies on critical environmental regions.
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Zusammenfassung:"The Basin of Mexico discusses the question of urban sustainability in Mexico City, one of the largest megacities on earth. Mexico City is an immense laboratory that reflects the environmental viability of the large cities of the developing world." "For some environmentalists, the urban and demographic growth of the Basin of Mexico is of grave concern, not only because of the attendant socio-economic consequences of such an immense concentration of population, but also because of the pressures that the clustering of some 18 million people may inflict on the environment. For others, the urban concentration of Mexico City is the logical result of the industrial development and the technological progress of the twentieth century, and does not represent a problem in itself, as technological development may provide the means to defeat the environmental and health problems spawned by urban growth." "The book examines some of these questions in a historic perspective, arguing that the depletion of natural resources in the Basin of Mexico is not just a recent phenomenon."--Jacket
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xix, 216 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-206) and index.
ISBN:0585162948
9780585162942

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