Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World: Finding Solutions in Cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America

作者：Jorge Enrique Hardoy, Diana Mitlin, David Satterthwaite · 发表于：Medical Entomology and Zoology · 年份：2001 · 被引用次数：301 · 研究领域：Healthcare and Environmental Waste Management、Urban and Rural Development Challenges

Cities can provide health safe and stimulating environments for their inhabitants without imposing unsustainable demands on natural resources ecosystems and global cycles. A successful city in this sense is one that meets multiple goals. Such goals include: healthy living and working environments for the inhabitants; water supply provision for sanitation rubbish collection and disposal drains paved roads and footpaths and other forms of infrastructure and services that are essential for health (and important for a prosperous economic base) available to all; an ecologically sustainable relationship between the demands of consumers and businesses and the resources waste sinks and ecosystems on which they draw. (excerpt)