Cities are at the center of our environmental future

Sapiens

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Sassen, Saskia ^a  

^a Committee on Global Thought Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

City; Environmental; Global; Governance; Multi scalar; Sustainability; Urban ecology; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959297210     PISSN: 19933800     EISSN: 19933819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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