Cities and the Politics of Sustainability

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Keil, Roger ^a   Whitehead, Mark ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cities; Human sociality; Politics of nature; Sustainability; Urban development; Urban politics; Urban sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84913614932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195367867.013.0026     Document Type: Chapter

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