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HUMAN SETTLEMENT DEVELOPMENT:
THE CENTRAL ROLE OF CITIES IN
OUR ENVIRONMENT’S
FUTURE—CONSTRAINTS AND
POSSIBILITIES
Urbanists and Environmentalists
Cities and Damage
Cities as Solutions
The Power of Markets?
The Strategic Geography of
Global Economic Power:
Identifying Accountability and
Capacities for Change
Scaling
URBAN SUSTAINABILITY AND THE
REGIONAL CITY SYSTEM IN THE ASIA
PACIFIC
Connecting the Discourse on
Urban Sustainability to
Globalization
Urban Development in the Asia
Pacific Region
World
City Formation in the Asia
Pacific
Human Development in the
Asia Pacific
The Impacts of the Asian
Financial Crisis
Globalization and the Context
for Urban Sustainability in the
Asia Pacific
The Functional City System and
Urban Sustainability in the
Asia Pacific
The Capital Exporters:
Post-industrial Cities
The Centers of FDI inflows:
Industrial Cities
The Entrepts: Borderless Cities
The Amenity Cities
World City Formation and
Localization
Thoughts for the Way Forward
URBAN SUSTAINABILITY, BUILT
HERITAGE, AND GLOBALIZATION IN
THE CUBAN CAPITAL
Cuba in the New Millennium
Sustainable Development in
Havana
Urban Ecology
Food Production in Havana
Transportation
Sustainability and Community
Participation
Housing in the late 1990s
Community Participation
Built Heritage and Cultural
Tourism
Summary and Conclusion
A RURAL MIGRANT COMMUNITY IN
URBAN BEIJING
Background of the migrant
community and fieldwork
Fieldwork Setting: Yingfang
Demographic Characteristics of
Yingfang
Major findings from the migrant
community
Migrants Occupation Structure
Social Alienation: Limited
Interaction between Migrants and
Local Urban Residents
Interaction among Migrants:
Continuation of Migrants
Original Culture and Norms
Migrants Lack of Interests to
Accommodate to the Host Society
Access Denied: Education and
Employment
BANGKOK: ARE INDUSTRIES
GENERATING A SUSTAINABLE CITY?
Urbanization and Environmental
Degradation
Towards the Sustainable
Development of Bangkok?
Government Measures to
Incorporate the Environment into
Business Calculations
Industries' Initiatives for the
Environment
SETTLEMENTS AS
SOCIO-TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
STUDY OF SINGAPORE AS AN URBAN
ECO-SYSTEM
Case-Study of the Island and
City-State of Singapore
Institutionalisation of Urban
Planning and Environmental
Management
Economic Development in
Singapore
Singapores
Competitiveness
Impact of Changes in Global
Conditions
Managing Changes in the Physical
Environment of Singapore
Environmental Policy and
Environmental Management
Enforcement of Environmental
Rules and Regulations
Enforcement of Environmental
Rules and Regulations through
Enforcement Control
Rsum
SUSTAINABLE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN
A MEDIUM-SIZED CITY: THE EXAMPLE
OF FREIBURG, GERMANY
The local implementation of
sustainable human development
Urban development in Freiburg
Land use
Transport policy
Energy, water and waste
management
MEGALOPOLITAN DEVELOPMENT AND
THE TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL
JAPAN: SUSTAINABILITY
IMPLICATIONS OF EXTENDED
METROPOLITAN REGIONS IN ASIA
From Megalopolis to Extended
Metropolitan Regions
The concept of Megalopolis
Extended Metropolitan Regions
and Desakota
The Tokaido Megalopolis
The Melting of Rural and Urban
in the Tokaido Megalopolis
Fragmented Rural Land Ownership
The Political Economy of Urban
Fringe Land Development
The Spread of Haphazard,
Unserviced Sprawl
The Melting of Urban and Rural
Sustainability Issues of
Extended Metropolitan Regions
Advantages and Disadvantages of
Extended Metropolitan Region
Development
Impacts on Travel Patterns and
Modal
Split
Social and Fiscal Impacts
Lessons of the Japanese Extended
Metropolitan Regions Experience
Learning from
Japan
Policy Implications for
Sustainability in Asian EMRs
CITIES, COMPETITIVENESS AND
COHESION: EVIDENCE FROM CENTRAL
SCOTLAND
Measuring City Competitiveness
Output, productivity and
employment
Industrial specialization
New firm formation
Labour markets
Vacant and derelict land
Social cohesion
Social inequality
Housing and the residential
environment
Health
Territorial belonging and
identity
FREE TRADE AND CHANGING PATTERNS
OF CITYWARD MIGRATION: The Case
of Mexico
The great turn-around of the
1980s and 1990s
Integration, disintegration and
migration
New poles of immigration
The transformation of the
position of Mexico City in the
1980s
The 1990s: Will Mexico City
renew its position as an
immigration pole?
SUPPORTING URBAN SMALL-SCALE
MANUFACTURERS: THE CASE OF
EMERGING BLACK-OWNED ENTERPRISES
IN GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA
Gautengs Emerging Manufacturers:
A Profile
The Macro-Policy Environment
Provincial and Local
The Provincial Tier
The Local Tier
Weak Policy Frameworks
Support Needs
The Question of Markets
Concentrated Market Structures
Linkages and Inter-Enterprise
Cooperation
Linkages Between Large Firms and
the SMME Economy
Networks and Linkages Within the
SMME Economy
Government Tenders and
Procurement
THE CITY AS A SOCIOTECHNOLOGICAL
SITE: The Case of Exchanges in
Financial Centers
Technological sites as centers
of calculation
Centers of Calculation Create
Spatial Groupings for the
Management of Risk
The Case of Global Manufacturing
Corporations: mapping
homogeneous groups
The case of creating emerging
markets as homogeneous groupings
for the management of risk.
Translating uncertain societies
into managed risk.
The Case of Global Financial
Corporations and Futures
Exchanges.
Social connectivity as basic
imitative sociality: the pit
system
Tools for Controlling Time:
Future markets, future contracts
and temporal markets for the
neutralization of risk
Temporal markets and
sustainability
Markets as cultures, moral
communities, and places of
political action
Changes in technology and
knowledge and their impact on
space.
Markets created by Collective
action: the market as a public
good.
The tradition of open out-cry
trading is challenged by the
silence of e-trading and the
evolution of knowledge
Technological mediated trading:
trading by telephone and
electronics
Sociality and anonymous trading
The knowledge and technical
infrastructure for anonymous
markets.
The evolution of knowledge and
technology and their impact on
sociality and space
The market as techno-system
Performativity and knowledge:
market simplification and
desembedding
PERI-URBANIZATION: ZONES OF
RURAL-URBAN TRANSITION
Peri-Urbanization
Drivers
Global Variants
Whats at Stake?
Peri-Urbanization in East Asia:
Comparative Context
The Thai Model
The Philippine Model
Chinese Peri-Urbanization
Inter-Regional Variation
Dynamics of Chinese
Peri-Urbanization
The Case of the HangzhouNingbo
Corridor
Key Characteristics
Emerging Outcomes
Peri-Urban Governance
PLANNING THE SUSTAINABLE CITY: A
POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF URBAN
GROWTH IN ZANZIBAR
The Sustainable Cities Program
and Environmental Sustainability
Land Use and Environmental
Sustainability in Zanzibar City
Flexibility, Political Will, and
Cost-Effectiveness
POVERTY REDUCTION IN INDIA:
TOWARDS BUILDING SUCCESSFUL
SLUM-UPGRADING STRATEGIES
Poverty in India The Bigger
Picture
Definitions and Indicators of
Urban Poverty
Key Factors Affecting Urban
Poverty in India
Social Infrastructure
Vulnerability of the Urban Poor
Location of the urban poor
Poverty and basic urban services
The impact of migration on
Indias urban poverty
Rules of Anti-Poverty Program
Design in the Urban Context
Slum Improvement Programs in
India
Outcome of Slum Improvement
Programs in India
Understanding Poor Peoples
Perceptions of Poverty
Institutional Capacity and
Sustainability
Constraints in Community
Organization and Promoting
Participation
Institutional Constraints
Political Constraints
Community Constraints
Impact of Infrastructure
Lack of Impact of Community
Development Initiatives
Reflections on the Rules for
Anti-Poverty Program Design
New Approach to Urban
Anti-Poverty Program Design
URBANIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL
DEGRADATION IN JORDAN
Interaction between Urbanization
and Agriculture in Drylands
Urban-Rural dynamics in Jordan:
Historical Context
Environmental Management:
Consumption and degradation at
the desert margin
Environmental Awareness and
Policy
Water Resources and Demand
Degradation, pollution and
consumption
LIVELIHOODS, URBANIZATION AND
THE RURAL-URBAN INTERFACE IN
AFRICAN GROWTH-BASED
ECONOMIES:THE CASE OF BOTSWANA
Urbanization and the rural-urban
interface in Botswana
A short note on urban policies
and economic and social
developments in Botswana
Instrumentalizing urban-rural
linkages
New patterns of social
vulnerability in the wake of
urbanization
SURVIVAL STRATEGIES AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF KIOSKS
IN MOSHI, TANZANIA
Moshi Municipality
The Pre 1980s Kiosk Owners
Contemporary Kiosk Owners: From
Survival strategy to development
strategy
Growth of Kiosks: Some
Contributing Factors
The need for revenue by the
municipal council
Land acquisition process for
kiosk business.
Stagnated industrial growth.
A change in stock items
Advantage of Kiosk Business
Risks and problems associated
with Kiosk Business
Risk of fire
Pedestrian safety.
Crime promotion:
Unhealthy city.
Poor business Environment:
Distorted municipal beauty and
investment potentials
URBAN SUSTAINABILITY:
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON
INTEGRATING ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Sustainable development
Ecological modernization
Urban regime theory
Regulation theory
WATER AND SUSTAINABILITY IN
ASIAN MEGALOPOLISES: THE CASE OF
BEIJING
A Conceptual Framework
The Maturing Water Economy
Project Culture
The Case of Beijing: The Early
Years
The Expansion Phase (1950s and
1960s)
The End of Expansion: Signs of
Stress
The Case of Beijing: Beyond
Expansion
The Transition to a Maturing
Water Economy
Rapid Economic Growth in a
Mature Water Economy
Implications of Beijings
Experience
A CASE STUDY OF MITIGATING AIR
POLLUTION EMISSIONS AT TRAFFIC
LIGHT JUNCTIONS
Factors Contributing to Traffic
Congestion
Effects of Air Pollution
Carbon Monoxide
Oxides of Nitrogen and
Hydrocarbon
Lead Compounds
Smoke
Pollutant Emissions at Traffic
Light Junction
Study Approach
Data Collection
Proposed Improvements
Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Estimation Results
Average Stopped Delay
Average Fuel Consumption and
Average Pollutant Emissions.
URBANIZATION AND DESERTIFICATION
IN EUROPEAN MEDITERRANEAN
COASTAL AREAS: A CASE STUDY IN
NORTH-WESTERN SARDINIA (ALGHERO,
ITALY)
Urbanization and land
degradation in Sardinia: a case
study of soil consumption in the
Alghero municipality
Brief description of the study
area
The methodological approach for
the assessment of soil
consumption
Changes due to urbanization in
the Alghero municipality
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF
BOMBING ON INDUSTRIAL SITES
THROUGHOUT YUGOSLAVIA DURING THE
1999 CONFLICT
Literature Review
Main Chemical Substances Emitted
as a Result of NATO Air Campaign
Depleted Uranium
Ethylene dichloride (EDC)
Petroleum hydrocarbons
Polynuclear aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAH)
Phosgene
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)
Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM)
The Pollution Recorded at
Several Industrial Hot-spots
The Use of Depleted Uranium- A
Risk for Human Health and the
Environment
URBAN SOCIAL VULNERABILITY TO
DISASTER IN GREATER LOS ANGELES
Greater Los Angeles: Background
Geographic and Economic
Background
Political and Administrative
Background
Hazard Background
Risk, Hazard, and Vulnerability:
Place, Perception, and Politics
Survey Methods
Survey Results
Municipal Perception of
Vulnerability
Municipal Sources of Information
on Vulnerable Groups
Relations to Neighborhood Groups
and NGOs
In-depth Case Studies: Two
Coastal Communities
Hazards
Vulnerability
Mitigation
Discussion
Policy Implications for Greater
Los Angeles
Los Angeles in the Global
Context
SHANGHAI: POPULATION PLANNING
AND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
Population Growth and
Urbanization in Shanghai
Urbanization and Rising
Consumption
Urbanization, Resource Depletion
and Environmental Pollution
Arable Land Loss
Environmental Pollution
Move towards Urban
Sustainability in Shanghai
Indicators to Measure Shanghais
Sustainability: A Case Study
Goals and Indicators of
Sustainable Development
Proposed Urban Sustainability
Indicators for Shanghai
Identifying Priorities of
Sustainability Indicators in
Shanghai
Results and Discussion
URBAN SUSTAINABLE INDICATORSA
CASE STUDY FROM HONG KONG
Sustainable framework for
policy-makers
Social-economic baseline
Environmental Baseline
Sustainable indicators and a
decision support tool
Guiding Principles
Selection Criteria
A computer aided sustainability
evaluation tool (CASET)
Paving the way forward
Some Other Approaches: United
Nations Indicators of
Sustainable Development
Methodology
National Testing
Analysis
Selection Criteria
Final Framework
Some Other Approaches: European
Common Indicators of Sustainable
Development
Selection Criteria
Proposals and Final Profile
RURAL SUSTAINABILITY
Rural Sustainability
Rural Milieus and their
Populations in Metropolitan and
Urban Regions
Symbiotic Relationships between
Urban and Rural Milieus in
Metropolitan and Urban Regions:
An Historical Perspective
The Multi-functionality of Rural
Milieus in Metropolitan and
Urban Regions: The Crux of
Achieving Rural Sustainability
and Contributing to Urban
Sustainability
Integrating Rural and Urban
Sustainability: Local Action and
Planning within an Enabling
Macro-Environment
TRADITIONAL LAND USE FOR
SUSTAINABLE LAND USE: THE CASE
OF YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA
General Situation of Yunnan
Province
Analysis over Several
Traditional Land Use (TLU) Modes
at County and Village Level (or
the Scale of Landscape)
Slash-and-burn Cultivation and
Development of Intensive and
Meticulous Farming and Mixed
Farming of the Natives Living in
the Mountains of Xishuangbanna
Slash-and-burn Cultivation
Paddy Agriculture
Development of Diversified Land
Use and Mixed Farming
Terraced Field and
Rice-cultivation Culture of Hani
People in Ailao Mountain in
South Yunnan
The Lagging Land Use Mode and
the "Change-the-World" Land Use
Mode The Xichou Spirit in the
Karst Mountainous Areas
The Changes in Land Use Patterns
in the Agricultural Region in
the High Mountains and Valley of
Nujiang River and the
Corresponding Ecological and
Economic Effect
Analysis of the TLU Modes at the
Household Level
Intensive and Meticulous
Cultivation and Diversified Land
Use Mode at Farmer Household
Level
Features of Land Use and
Operation
Household Income
Summary of Features on land use
of the household
Summary of Features and
Ecological, Economic, and Social
Effect of TLU
Building on TLU for Sustainable
Land Use and Agriculture
Value of TLU in Sustainable
Development
Basic Principles and Goals of
the Future Land Use Mode
Sustainable Land Use (SLU)
Is TLU a Sustainable Land Use
Mode?
Existing Land Use Problems
Deforestation for Expanding
Farmland and the Rapid
Conversion of Fertile Farmland
into Building Areas
Increasing Consumption of
Resources and Resource Crisis
Increasingly Severe Ecological
Degeneration of Land
Worsening Environmental
Pollution
Current Land Use Pressures
Pressure for Food Production
Pressure for Poverty Alleviation
Pressure for Resources and
Environmental Protection
Recommendations for building on
TLU for Sustainable Land Use
REGIONAL RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN
PUNJAB PROVINCE: AN
ENVIRONMENT-BASED APPROACH FOR
GUIDING DECISIONS ON INDUSTRIAL
LOCATION
The environment-based approach
and Strategic Environmental
Assessment (SEA)
The Case Study Area: Punjab
Province
Methodology of the Study
Zoning for different industrial
categories
The GIS Process
The Final Product
Pollution assimilative capacity
of nature
Backward areas uplift
Operationalizing Findings
INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS AND THEIR
UPGRADING: BUILDING ON THE
LESSONS OF THREE DECADES OF
EXPERIENCE
Nature and Evolution of Informal
Settlements Upgrading
Lessons of Experience
Some ideas on the way forward
RURBANIZATION IN THE REGIONAL
PERIPHERY OF CENTRAL MEXICO
Rurbanization examined
Spatial characteristics of the
Central Region
Periurban agriculture in the
Central Region
INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT:
BASIC CONCEPTS AND ISSUES
Watershed Approach to
Conservation and Development
Level of Watershed as Management
Planning Unit
The Dilemma
Costs and Benefits of Watershed
Management
Major Issues in Watershed
Management
Determinants of Watershed Status
Approach to Watershed Management
Integrated Conservation and
Development Activities
Mobilization and Strengthening
of Existing Development Agencies
Participatory Management
Planning and Implementation
MINERAL EXTRACTION, ECONOMY AND
THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT: THE ROLE
OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN
ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION AND
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Mineral extraction, FDI and
urbanization
Possible destabilization of the
urban development due to FDI in
the CEE region
Benefits of FDI for host
countries
Environmental and social
consequences related to FDI in
mineral extraction
Negative FDI implication for the
local environment. Case studies:
Kyrgyzstan, Romania cyanide and
heavy metal spills
Cyanide spill accident in
Kyrgyzstan
Cyanide and heavy metal spill in
Romania
SUSTAINABLE FUTURE URBAN
PATTERNS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC
ACTIVITIES OF TROPICAL WETLANDS
IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
Traditional Socio-economic
Activities
Low-rise Low Density Traditional
Villages
Low-rise High Density
Traditional Villages
Monetary Socio-economic
Activities
Cash-cropping Agriculture
Villages
Mixed Cultivation Villages
New Specialised Agriculture
Villages
Modern socio-economic industrial
development
USING FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT
TO IMPROVE URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL
INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES –THE
CASE OF HANOI, VIETNAM
Case Study Area Profile
Reviewing the Existing Situation
of FDI and UEM in Hanoi
Arguments against and for
private provision of the Water
Supply and Sanitation Services
(WSSS)
Characteristics of WSSS –
Argument for Public Provision of
WSSS
The problems with public
provision of WSSS – Argument for
their Private Provision
Historical Process of Private
Participation in WSSS
The Case of the Developed
Countries
In the Developing Countries
Options of Private Foreign
Participation in Urban
Environmental Infrastructure
Risks
Risks Involved in Foreign
Private Participation in Vietnam
/ Hanoi
Measures for Reducing the Risks
What Will It Take to Attract FDI
for the Provision of WSSS
FDI for Provision of UEI&S in
Hanoi: Findings of a Survey
TEMPORARY MIGRANTS IN SHANGHAI,
CHINA: HOUSING CHOICES AND
PATTERNS
Studying migrant housing in
Chinas context
Migrant housing patterns
Individual-level determinants of
migrant housing choices
Geographical distribution of
migrants
RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY,
PLANNING AND PRACTICE IN CITIES
AND CITY REGIONS
Major Urban Energy Issues
Fossil Fuel Depletion and Cities
Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Energy and the Form of the Built
Environment
Cultural Shifts towards
Sustainable Urban Energy
Development
Post-globalization: New Energy
for Sustainable Regions
Energy, Cities, and
Technological Innovation
Climate-stable Development
Solar City, a Blueprint for
Integrated Urban Planning
Case: Insulating Urban
Development from Fossil Fuel
Dependency in China
A Future Promoter of Urban
Energy and Greenhouse Planning
An Integrated Urban Energy,
Environment, and Development
Strategy
SELF-SUSTAINABILITY FOR THE
MANAGEMENT OF WATER CYCLES AT
THE LOCAL LEVEL
Findings of the Research
Main findings of the LABSLA
research
Methodology: Selection Process
Methodology: Evaluation via the
Best Practices method
Methodology: public consultation
and involvement of local
communities.
Ways of rewarding
representation.
Savonarola Neighbourhood
Contract, Padua, Italy
Framing the Savonarola Contract
Case Study
Water in the "Caduti della
Resistenza" District, Padua
Criteria adopted for water cycle
planning decisions
Importance of water saving
equipment
Abacus of water saving measures
(characteristics and
materials)in Padua case study
Abacus of treatment facilities
(characteristics and materials)
Planning criteria for winter
garden (or greenhouse)
Planning Criteria for "greening"
the open spaces
Public participation in the
planning cycle as a precondition
for technical applications
Methods and aesthetic perception
indicators as decision planning
support
Municipal Water Planning: the
RIGENA Programme
Traditional versus new town
planning instruments, for the
protection of water resources
RIGENA Programme
INDICATORS OF URBAN
SUSTAINABILITY IN THE UNITED
STATES: A FRAMEWORK FOR
MEASURING PROGRESS
The Santa Monica Indicator
Program
Review of the Literature
Sustainability Criteria for
Testing Purposes
Methods
Is this a Sustainability
Indicator Program?
Step 1: Testing the
Sustainability Principles
Step 2: Matching the
Sustainability Principles to
Goals
Step 3: Testing the
Sustainability Indicators
Is This an Effective Program?
Results
Is the Santa Monica CIP a
Sustainability Program?
Adequacy of the Sustainability
Principles
Sustainability Principles in
Relation to Goals
Adequacy of the Sustainability
Indicators
If Not a Sustainability Program,
Is it an Effective Program?
Discussion
The Test Results
Aiming for Urban Sustainability
Lessons for Urban Planners and
Managers
URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT
AND SUSTAINABILITY IN NIGERIA
Infrastructure Development and
the Nigerian Urban Environment
Infrastructure Provision Models
State Provision An Illusion?
Reflections on Benin City
The Provision and State of
Infrastructure Services
Urban Partnership Initiatives:
The Sustainable Ibadan Project
Sustainable Ibadan Project and
Urban Environmental
Infrastructure Management
Urban Management Context and
Sustainable Ibadan Project
Implications for Urban
Infrastructure and Development
ORGANIZATIONAL PUZZLE OF
HOUSEHOLD SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
IN PORTO-NOVO
Theoretical Considerations about
Infrastructure and Urban Ecology
Methods
The Main Features of Porto-Novos
Current Household Solid Waste
Management System
City Context
Current Household Solid Waste
Management System in Porto-Novo
Pre-Collection
Collection and/or Transfer
Sanitary Land Fill or Disposal
Restructuring in the Household
Solid Waste Management System
Structural Reforms and Urban
Ecology
Structural Change and Urban
Ecology of Porto-Novo
Analysis of Actors Perception of
Structural Change
Analysis of the Perception of
the Coordinating Committee of
the Household Solid Waste
Management System
Analysis of the Perception of
Peoples Representatives of the
Household Solid Waste management
system
Analysis of Peoples Perceptions
of the Household Solid Waste
Management System
Policy Implications and
Concluding Comments
THE LONG ROAD TOWARDS
SUSTAINABLE CITIES: The Dutch
case
Ecological Footprint of Cities
Areas, Actors and Material
Flows: the three Pillars of
Urban Sustainability
Areas
Actors
Material Flows
General
Energy
Water
Resources and materials
Traffic flows: the relation
between urbanization and car
mobility
Public Transport Infrastructure:
The Breakthrough of Light Rail
in Urbanized Regions
General
Theoretical notions on networks
for urban district public
transport
“Feedering" and connecting
public transport
Added value of nodes in public
transport
Light rail: towards the
integration of city and urban
district transport into
urbanized region transport
URBAN FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION AND
THE QUANTIFIABLE CONSEQUENCES OF
INEFFICIENT PLANNING ON URBAN
SUSTAINABILITY
The Direct Impacts of Freight
Transportation on Urban
Settlements: Externalities and
Diseconomies
Positive Externalities
Negative Externalities
The Diseconomies Related to
Urban Freight Transportation
Urban Freight Transportation and
Urban Sustainability
Case Study: Quantifying
Diseconomies in the City of
Petropolis, Brazil
Fuel Consumption
Emission of Pollutants
Estimating Pollution Values
Quantifying the costs of air
pollutant emissions
The “Monetarization of
Externalities”: Policy
Implications
TRANSPORTATION AND URBAN
SUSTAINABILITY
Objectives and Vision
Economic objective
Environmental objective
Social objective
Current Trends in Transportation
Systems
Elements of Transportation
Systems
Vehicles and fuel
Role of Technology
Economic and regulatory measures
Infrastructure and traffic flow
Role of technology
Economic and regulatory measures
Drivers and road users
Sustainable Transportation
Strategies
Demand management
Travel efficiency
Modal shifts
Approaches to Sustainable
Transportation Strategies
Technological approaches
Demand management
Travel efficiency
Modal shift
Economic and regulatory
approaches
Demand management
Travel efficiency
Modal shift
Planning and management-based
approaches
Demand management
Travel efficiency
Modal shift
Synthesis and Discussion
INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT AS
"SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT": A
BANGLADESH CASE STUDY
Roads and Rural Development in
Bangladesh: Shifts in Goals and
Orientation
Road Saturation Debates
Care and Rural Road Projects In
Bangladesh.
Implications of the Shift from
IFFW To IFFD
A Summary of Impacts of Road
Improvements on The Livelihoods
of Local People
Changes In Market Facilities,
Modes And Costs Of Transport
Factors shaping market
preference, and impacts of road
improvements on market options
Changes in modes and costs of
transport
Womens mobility
Changes In Cropping Strategies
And Agricultural Production.
Diversification Of
Income-Generating Opportunities,
Expansion of Nonfarm
Opportunities
Rickshaw-Pullers
Shopkeepers and mill-owners
Women entrepreneurs.
Access To Institutional
Resources
Credit
Education
Health
LAND TRANSPORT POLICIES AND
STRATEGIES FOR A SUSTAINABLE
TRANSPORT SYSTEM
Background
Policies And Strategies
Improving Public Transport
Managing demand for road usage
Developing an efficient and
comprehensive road network
Harnessing technology to
maximize network capacity
Integrating Transport Planning
and Land Use
Other Supporting Measures
ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION
INDICATORS FOR UPGRADED SLUMS:
The Case of Jardim Floresta Slum
(Favela) in the City of São
Paulo
Slums and Their Inter-Relations
Initial considerations
The Slums in the urban spaces of
the City of São Paulo
The intervention process in
shantytowns
Inter-related issues and
prerequisites in slums upgrading
Public health and environmental
sanitation
Public urban services in slums
Importance of free urban spaces
and protection areas for water
catchments
Environmental Sanitation
Indicator - Esi
Objective
Components of the Environmental
Sanitation Indicator
Structure of the Environmental
Sanitation Indicator
Environmental Sanitation
Indicator for Slums - Esi/S
Objective
Environmental Sanitation
Indicator for slums
Water Supply Indicator (ICA)
Sewage Collection and Septic
Tanks Indicator (ICE)
Garbage Collection Indicator
(ICR)
Drainage Indicator (IDR)
Street and Passageways Indicator
(IVC)
Soundness of
Geologic/Geo-technical Indicator
(ISG)
Gross Demographic Density
Indicator (IDD)
Electric Energy Indicator (IEL)
Regularizing Land Ownership
Indicator (IRE)
Street Cleaning Indicator (IVA)
Streetlights Indicator (IIP)
Public Areas Indicator (IEP)
Income Indicator (IRF)
Education Indicator (IED)
Report on Environmental
Sanitation for Upgraded Slums
Selection of the Area for the
Case Study
Confirmation of the
Applicability of the Proposed
Model
MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
IN THIRD WORLD CITIES: LESSONS
LEARNED AND A PROPOSAL FOR
IMPROVEMENT
Municipal Solid Waste Management
(MSWM) in Third World Cities: An
Overview
Definition of Municipal Solid
Waste
Current Problems
Conventional Waste Management
Systems
MSWM in the First and Third
World: A Comparison
Differences between First and
Third World cities that affect
MSWM
Transfer of Solid Waste
Management Technology
Informal Refuse Collection and
Scavenging
Informal Refuse Collection
Scavenging
Categorizing Scavenging
At the Source
Source Separation
Itinerant Buyers Purchase
Recyclables from Residents
Scavengers Salvage Materials
from Dumpsters
Scavenging on the Streets or
Public Spaces
During Collection
Sorting of Recyclables by
Collection Crews while on their
Collection Routes
Recovery of Recyclables by
Informal Refuse Collectors
Recovery in Canals and Rivers
that Cross Urban Areas
Recovery at Processing and
Disposal Sites
Recovery at Composting Plants
Recovery at Municipal Open Dumps
Recovery at Landfills
Evaluating the Impacts of and
Response to Scavenging
Economic and Environmental
Impact of Scavenging
Public Policy towards Scavenging
Repression
Neglect
Collusion
Stimulation
Proposal for a Decentralized
MSWM System
ENVIRONMENTAL LIFE CYCLE
ASSESSEMENT AND MUNICIPAL SOLID
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Environmental and Economic
Relevance of MSW
Landfills
Recycling
Incineration
Introduction to Life Cycle
Assessment
LCA Studies Comparing
Incineration vs. Recycling of
Paper
Climate Change
Fossil Fuel Consumption
Applications of Systems Models
and LCA to MSW Management
Fundamental Analysis
LCA in Policy Formulation
LCA as a Design Tool for
Municipal Planners
URBAN DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
World Cities in the Era of
Sustainable Development
Meeting the Challenges of
Sustainability, Globalization
and Cohesion
Maximizing Human Welfare and
Enhancing Urban Capital
Policy Integration and Balance,
Local Democracy and Citizenship
Urban Ecological Challenges and
Responses
Local Agendas 21: A World
Momentum for Sustainable
Development
Resourceful Eco-efficient Cities
versus Giant Ecological
Footprints
Energy as a Yardstick for the
Sustainable City
Towards a More Sustainable
Mobility
Social Justice as a Sin Equa
Non-condition for Urban
Sustainability
Enhancing Human and Social
Capital
Improving Employment, Income
Distribution and Social Cohesion
Upgrading Home Environments: the
Focus on Living Conditions
Promoting Noble Public Spaces
and Cultural Added Value
Sustainable Regeneration and
Urban Economic Development
Revitalizing the Urban Cells
Realizing the Local Potential
for Multiple Dividend Solutions
Towards a Meaningful Mix of
Policy Instruments
Institutional Architecture and
Strategic Planning
From City Government to Urban
Governance
Drivers of Institutional Change
and Obstacles to Accountability
Designing the Cities of the
Future
Best Practices and Indicators: a
Compass for Progress
URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS:
IMPLICATIONS OF RAPID
URBANIZATION WITHOUT ADEQUATE
URBAN GOVERNANCE IN LESOTHO
Background
Urban Development Services
Environmental and Social
Problems and their Implications
Social Problems
Urban Poverty
Housing
Access to Public Amenities
Crime and Vice
Environmental Problems
Pollution
Waste Management
Water Supply and Sanitation
Health
Urban Environmental Challenge
MEXICO CITY: INDIVIDUAL AND
COLLECTIVE RESPONSES TO URBAN
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERIORATION
The natural setting
Industrialization and population
growth
The recent environmental crisis
The middle class as a research
focus
Out-migration by middle class
families
Social participation by middle
class women
Final remarks
CONFLICT IN PARTICIPATORY
DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FOR
EMPOWERMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Methods
Findings from the Case Studies
Influences on the Decision to Participation
Participation and Conflict
Empowerment and Sustainability
Participation, Personal Empowerment, and Sustainability
Participation, Sustainability, and the Community
Points of Vulnerability
SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION
BALANCES ECONOMIC VIABILITY,
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS AND SOCIAL
EQUITY: THE CASE OF BOGOT
COLUMBIA
The Case Study of Bogot:
Background Information
Background
Pacto Social
Projecto TransMilenio
Technical Aspects of
TransMilenio
Initial Results
Beyond Buses: Public Space and
Bicycles
Public Space Improvement
Bikeway Development
Automobile Based Initiatives
Car-Free Day Referenda
"Pico y Placa" Driving
Restrictions
Disincentives to Driving
Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial
THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL AGENDA
IN POLICY MAKING IN THE URBAN
SECTOR: THE CASE OF EGYPT
(1950S-1990S)
An Overview of Egypts Shelter
Problem
The State, Domestic Determinants
and Foreign Policy in Three Eras
The Revolution, Socialism and
National Development - Nasser
(1952-70)
The Open Door, Redirection and
Facing North/West - Sadat
(1970-81)
The Reform and Structural
Adjustment - Mubarak (post 1981)
The Political Economy of Shelter
Socio-economic Changes and the
Urban Sector
The States Mode of Intervention
Inevitable Outcomes
Conceptual Reflections
DECENTRALIZATION AND SUSTAINABLE
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: AN ANALYSIS
OF LOCAL AND MUNICIPAL COUNCILS
IN IRAN
Struggle for Participation and
The Making of the Councils
Background
New Impetus for Local and
Municipal Councils
Legal Framework of Councils
Prospects for Development and
Democratization
Immediate Impact
Current Shortcomings
Potentials
RURAL DEVELOPMENT: PARTICIPATION
AND DIVERSITY FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Linkages between Rural and Urban
Sustainability
Populations as Driving Force of
Rural Change
Rural Poverty
Environmental Factors
People and land transformation
Water and irrigation
Food Production
A Case for Diversity and
Participation
An effort towards holistic and
participatory rural development
INVESTIGATING THE CONCEPTS OF
LEGALITY AND LEGITIMACY IN
SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT: A
CASE STUDY OF LAND USE PLANNING
IN MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE
The legal and regulatory basis
for urban development in
Mozambique
Historical development of urban
settlement patterns in
Mozambique
Urban development policy
The legal basis for urban land
use
Urban land management
The case of Maputo city
Pre-Independence development
Post-Independence development
Social legitimacy and
sustainable urban development
PATTERNS OF ECONOMIC AFFLUENCE
AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION IN
HOUSTON, TEXAS
Air Pollution and Ill-Health in
Cities
Growing Affluence and Increasing
Pollution Over Time
The Population and the Problem
of Air Pollution
Indicators of Sustainability:
Air Quality and Health Care
Air Pollution in Houston
Health Care in Houston Medical
Heaven
Poor Health Indicators in
Houston
COPING WITH URBAN SOCIAL
VULNERABILITY TO HAZARDS IN
TOKYO: CURRENT STATUS OF
DISASTER MITIGATION PLANS AND
ITS IMPLICATIONS
Disaster Mitigation Plans of
Tokyo
Consideration of Urban Social
Vulnerability to Hazards in
Tokyo
Outline of the Survey and the
Study Area
Definition of
Disaster-Vulnerable People
Consideration of Vulnerable
People in Disaster Mitigation
Plans
Difficulties of Obtaining
Information on
Disaster-Vulnerable People
Roles of Neighborhood Groups
Geographical Variations
Potential Roles of
Non-Governmental Organizations
Expectations to Non-Governmental
Organizations
Examples of Non-Governmental
Organizations
Examples of Community-Based
Organizations
Integrating Resources of Various
Organizations into Municipal
Disaster Mitigation Plans
THE DEGRADATION OF WORK IN THE
GLOBAL ECONOMY: LOW INCOME WOMEN
AND THE PRECARIOUS LABOR MARKET
IN SAO PAULO, BRAZIL
Soaring Unemployment and Numbers
of Unregistered Workers
Outsourcing of Production - The
Resurgence of Homework and
Sweatshops
The Case of the Garment Industry
Union Strategies to Prevent
Precarization
VICTIMS, VILLAINS, AND FIXERS:
THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT AND
JOHANNESBURG'S POOR
Urban Poverty and the Urban
Environment
Victims: Apartheids Legacy
Water
Sanitation
Electricity
From Heroes to Villains and the
Struggle for Urban Services
Who are the Fixers? It cannot be
Business as Usual
URBAN SEGREGATION AND
SUSTAINABILITY IN SAO PAULO,
BRAZIL
So Paulo environmental features
The segregated growth of the
urbanized area
Recent Metropolitan Economic
Performance
Housing segregation in the
1990s.
Air pollution and impediments to
mobility.
THE FIVE CITIES OF BUENOS AIRES:
POVERTY AND INEQUALITY IN URBAN
ARGENTINA
The Federal Capital: The Five
Cities of Buenos Aires
Public Investment as a Factor in
Inequality:
Infrastructure:
Public Education
Health Care
Unsatisfied Basic Needs
Patterns of Cumulative
Inequality
The Five Cities of Buenos Aires
MISSING LINKS: NEIGHBORHOOD AND
STATE INITIATIVES AGAINST CRIME
IN CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
Authoritarian Legacies
Community-based Initiatives for
Crime Prevention and Safety and
Security
Delft South: Consolidating
Community through Crime
Prevention
Building from the Door Kickers
Struggle for Housing
The formation of street
committees in Delft South
State Initiatives to Improve
Community Safety and Security
Community Policing Forums in
Practice
THE CITIES, THE STATE AND THE
MARKETS: IN SEARCH OF
SUSTAINABILITY
Development strategies and urban
policies: basic links.
The modernization strategy
(1950-1970)
The modernist urban development
strategies
The basic needs strategy
The basic needs urban
development strategy
Structural adjustment strategy
Structural adjustment and urban
development strategies 1970-1980
The economic role of the cities
in a changing World economy
The macro-economic changes
ICT and the rise of global
financial markets and the
placeboundedness
The neoliberal strategy for
urban development
Policies aimed at enhancing
urban productivity(R.Burgess,
M..Carmona and T.Kolstee.
(1997))
Urban policies and environmental
sustainability: particular
interactions.
The complexity of the
environment and the limits of
citywide management
The strengthening of the demand
side in unequal societies
Networked services,
environmental systems and
institutional reshaping on urban
management
The prospects of change
THE EFFECTS OF THE TRANSITION IN
HUNGARY ON THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT
Hungary: A Case Study
Before the Transition
The Transition
Post Transition Changes in
Transport Policy
Changes in Public Transit Policy
Changes in Road and Highway
Sector Policy
Changes in Rail Policy
The Causes of Sprawl in Budapest
Sprawl, Housing, and Highways
Suburban and Ex-urban Commercial
Sprawl
Foreign Investment and Sprawl
Sprawl and Sustainable
Development: Push Factors
Sprawl and Sustainable
Development: Pull Factors
THE ROLE OF CLIENTELISM IN
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Case
Study Kocaeli, Turkey
Structural Adjustment Program:
Changes in the Economy and
Governmental Structures
Clientelism
The Case Study: Kocaeli
Background
Projects to Enhance Sustainable
Development in Kocaeli
The Dynamics of Clientelistic
Networks in Governing Kocaeli:
The Role of Clientelistic
Networks in Undertaking the
Projects for Sustainable
Development
GREENING LONDON: SUSTAINABILITY,
POLITICS AND THE THIRD WAY
Sustainability and the Third Way
Sustainability as Strategy
Sustainability as Implementation
THE NATIONAL-LOCAL POLICY VACUUM
IN SUSTAINABLE LAND USE
PLANNING: al-qatif oasis, saudi
arabia.
Setting the Scene: Oases in
Saudi Arabia
The Impacts of Urban Growth
Impact on Agricultural Land
Impact on Coastal Land
The Policy Framework
Physical Development and Urban
Planning Policies
Environmental Policies
Agricultural and Water
Development Policies
Policy Integration and
Co-operation
Education and Participation
Towards Sustainable Development
in the Oasis
TECHNICAL PROCESS, POLITICAL
REALITIES: SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT AND THE SOUTH DURBAN
STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL
ASSESSMENT
Technical Processes, Political
Realities
The South Durban Strategic
Environmental Assessment
Background
The Study
Competing Agendas
Sustainable Development
The decision making arena
The local planning environment
Institutional Issues
Local Government
Civil Society
Implications for Environmental
Politics
INTERPRETING THE REGULATORY
GEOGRAPHY OF SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT: THE RISE OF THE
SUSTAINABLE CITY IN THE UK.
Reinterpreting the Regulation
Approach
Regulation as process.
The geographies of regulation -
or the spatialisation of
regulatory processes.
The coming of the sustainable
city: the re-regulation of
Britains urban economy
The coming of the sustainable
city the case of the UK.
The sustainable city in the
sustainable society Third Way
politics in the UK.
Sustainable development and the
Regulation Approach
The environment and notions of
crisis
Scalar translations
The Scope of Sustainability
THE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
ON CHILD LABOR, EXPORT-ORIENTED
GARMENT PRODUCTION IN
BANGLADESH,
AND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
The Campaign against the Use of Child Labor in the Bangladeshi
Export-Oriented Garment Industry
The Context of the Campaign
The Origins of the Campaign in the
United States
The Use of Child Labor in
Bangladesh
The Harkin Bill and its Effects
Garments in Dhaka: A Map of the City
The Crisis
The Signing and Implementation of the MOU
Results?
The MOU, Child Labor and Urban Sustainability
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND
POLICY: AN INTRODUCTION
Prologue
Public policymaking and
organizational context
Development of Administration:
Ancient
Modern systems
Contemporary developments
Administrative Management
Public policy
Epilogue
SOCIAL DIVERSITY AND DEVELOPMENT
POLICY: THE USE OF CONSTRAINTS
AND INCENTIVES
Goals and Requirements of
Development
Society and Polity
State and Intervention and
Development
A Proposal for Effective
Decision making
POLITICAL PARTIES: PRINCIPAL
ARENAS OF POLICYMAKING CONFLICT
A Brief Institutional History of
Parties
Types of Party System and Their
Policymaking Consequences
Party Functions and External
Relationships
Parties and Elections
Parties in the Legislature
Parties and the Chief Executive
Partisanship in the Judiciary
Parties and Organized Interest
Groups
Parties and the Media
Factionalism and the Nominating
Process
Coalition Formation and
Moderation
First Elections
Popular Participation in
Nominations
Political Parties as Planning
Agencies and Policy Advocates
Cases of Political Parties
Impact on Life-Support Policies
Personal Safety in Colombia
Water in India
Death and Life in Russia
Future Development of Political
Parties
Rights and Responsibilities of
Political Parties
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN TODAY'S
WORLD OF ORGANIZATIONS AND
MARKETS
Research on Complex
Organizations
Markets as Coordinating
Mechanisms
From a Market Economy to an
Organizational Economy
How Organizations Coordinate
Organizational Identification
Organizational Innovation and
Adaptation to Change
Social Implications
The Distribution of Power
Distribution of the Social
Product: Levels of Employment
and Production
Distribution of the Social
Product: Fairness
PLANNED ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE:
ESSENTIALS FOR CONSTRUCTIVE
ACTION
Context
Organizations: delineations and
specifics
Context of change intervention
Change components and their
dynamic relationships
Assessing the Social-Technical
System(s)
Change myth and doctrine
Change goals
Organization and operational
domain
Structuring of change
Application of strategies and
tactics
Evaluation of the endeavor
ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE:
UNDERSTANDING THEORETICAL AND
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
Early History and Recent
Development of the Study of
Organizational Culture
Modern Organizational Culture in
Public Agencies
Deciphering an Organizations
Culture
PERSIAN LEGACIES OF BUREAUCRACY
AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Early Iran, prior to the Persian
Empire
The World-State Persian Empire
The founding father, Cyrus the
Great
Institutions of governance
The King and the central
government
The satrapy system of
administration
The Persian bureaucracy
Administrative Reforms of Darius
Persian legacies towards
administration
DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN
ADMINISTRATION: PRE-COLONIAL
TIMES AND SINCE
Pre-colonial system: From the
Ashes of Pharaohs to the Berlin
Conference
Ancient Civilization of Africa:
The Case of Egypt
Medieval Africa
Beyond the Medieval Era to the
Nineteenth Century
Colonial Period
The Consolidation of the
Colonial Administration
Beyond the First World War and
toward Independence
The Post-Colonial Administration
and Problems of Development
Historical and Structural
Origins
Administrative Performance in
Post-Colonial Period
Administrative Reforms in Africa
POLITICS IN THE ANCIENT NEAR
EAST
Ruling and abiding by the Rules
Early Components of a Public
Culture
Good Governance and the Art of
Ruling
Representative Systems
Political Representation and the
Deliberative Process
Voting and the Electoral Process
Social Justice and the Judiciary
ANCIENT BUREAUCRACIES OF INDIA
AND CHINA AND MODERN
ADMINISTRATION
Western Misinterpretations
Max Weber's Prebendal
Bureaucracy
Karl Marx's Asiatic Mode of
Production
Eisenstadt's Bureaucratic
Empires
Comparisons: India and China
Indian and Chinese Evolution
Confucian Brahmins and Kautilyan
Mandarins
The European evolution
The Roman Empire
Feudalism and the Catholic
Church
Societal Evolution: Facilitating
Factors
Some lessons
The District Collector
Societal Evolution and State
Enterprises
The Derivative Middle Class
FRENCH PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
History of French Administration
Fifth Republic
State in French political
Culture
Civil Service
The Gand Corps
Relationship with Private Sector
Decentralization and the Prefect
Administrative Law
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN
AMERICA: THE EXCEPTIONALISM OF A
HYBRID
BUREAUCRACY
Attraction of presidentialism
American exception
Making valid comparisons
Power and performance
Types of bureaucracy
Mandarins
Retainers
In-and-Outers
Functionists
Mandarinates: Great Britain
Presidentialism and the US
Patronage and Spoils
A Hybrid bureaucracy
Rotation and Spoils
Teaching Public Administration
Professionalism
POLITICS AND ANTI-POLITICS:
AMERICAN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Stunted and Truncated: Public
Administration in the Nineteenth
Century
A Stunted Government
A Truncated Profession
A Gentlemanly but Political
Public Service
Dark Tides: Populism and
Patronage
Jackson and Democratization
From Democratization to Spoils
Reform: Honesty and
Anti-Politics
Early Efforts
Reform by Murder
Nirvana Attained: The Civil
Service Act of 1883
The Merit Principle and American
Governments
Reform: The Foundation for the
Next Century
NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: ORIGINS,
DIMENSIONS, AND CRITICAL
IMPLICATIONS
Origin and Globalization of New
Public Management
Rationales and Causes of New
Public Management
Major Dimensions of New Public
Management
Theoretical-Conceptual Dimension
Functional-Professional
Dimension
Structural-Compositional
Dimension
Normative-Ethical Dimension
Strategic-Technical Dimension
Critical Implications of New
Public Management
Implications for Citizens
Implications for public service
Limits and Prospects of New
Public Management
STRATEGIES OF SUCCESSFUL
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS
Administrative reforms
Politics of reform
Characteristics of reform
Approaches to reform
Citizens charter
Re-engineering the government
Re-inventing government
New public management (NPM)
Privatization/contracting out
Financial reform
Democratization
Decentralization
The Indian experience
Evaluation of reforms
THE NEW ZEALAND REFORMS
Context
Political Factors
Intellectual Framework
The Principal Reforms
Trading activities
Restructuring the Core Public
Service
Financial Management
Overview and Assessment
Outcome Accountability
Policy Advice
The "Collective Interest of
Government"
Departmental Capability
GOVERNANCE, FACILITATIVE STATES
AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY PUBLIC
ADMINISTRATION
Governance and Facilitative
Institutions
Three Dimensions of Governance
as a Global Framework
Social Self Governance and Civil
Society
Economic Governance and Markets
The Facilitative State and
Political Governance
Applied Pluralist and
Public-Choice Theories and
Todays Search for Good
Governance
Reconciliation via Governance
and Facilitative State
Perspectives
Searching Questions and
Connectedness
Varied and Shared Public
Administration Frameworks Within
and Among Nations
Continental European Thought and
Practices
Public-Sector Redefinition
Deconcentration: Dispersed
Authority and Responsibilities
Balancing Transparency and
Access with Privacy and Security
Government under Law and
Governance through Law
Accountability and
Responsibility
New Public Management,
Commonwealth Nations, and
Related Developments
Post-Bureaucratic Theories and
Practices?
Responsive, High-Performance
Administrative Cultures
Public Entrepreneurship and
Managerial Autonomy
Competition and Private
Performance of Publicly Provided
Functions
Matching Resources and Functions
Performed
Contexts and Theories Underlying
NPM
Shared and Varied American
Frameworks
Enduring Civic-Constitutional
Ideals and Public Administration
Failed Autonomy of American
Public Administration
Complexities of Contemporary
Movements
International Perspectives and
Shared Paradoxes of Public
Administration
Situational Differences and
Shared Practices as Twenty-First
Century Realities
United Nations and World Bank
Enduring and 21st Century
Paradoxes of Governance in a
Facilitative-State Era
THE INTERNET, GOVERNMENTS AND
THE ISSUE OF GOVERNANCE: A NEW
CARTOGRAPHY OF POWER?
Towards a Globalized Economy: A
New Architecture?
The Death of Space?
Sovereignty, electronic commerce
and globalization
Developing a New Global
Framework for Electronic
Commerce
Redefining the role of
governments
CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC HUMAN
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS:PATRONAGE, CIVIL
SERVICE, PRIVATIZATION, AND
SERVICE CONTRACTS
Public Personnel Management
Functions
Public Jobs as Scarce Resources
Traditional Values
Emergent Values
Traditional Systems: Patronage,
Civil Service, Collective
Bargaining, and Affirmative
Action
Emergent Systems
Conflict and Compromise among
Alternative Public Personnel
Systems
Service Contracting and
Privatization Outcomes in
Developed and Less developed
Countries
REVISITING BUDGETARY
INCREMENTALISM
Basic issues
Larger connections
Some distinctions
Characteristics of budgeting
The Demise of incrementalism
Broader context, limited horizon
Gentlemanly government
Denouncing reform
Either/or
Contradictions: Holding on and
letting go
Rejecting and accepting
More inconsistencies
Policy and counseling
Encountering change
Reducing and increasing conflict
Governmental (in)capacity
Imbalanced perspective
Sympathy and inaction
Return to basics
Theoretical building blocks
Different kinds of
incrementalism
BUDGETING FOR GOVERNMENT
ACTIVISM AND DEMOCRACY
Budgeting for Governmental
Activism and Democracy
The Need for Budget Reform
Designing a Budget Reform
Budgeting for Governmental
Activism
Budgeting for Democracy
The Budget Hearing
Citizen Planning and
Prioritizing
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND LIFE
SUPPORT PROGRAMS
Scope of Life Support Program
Differences between Industrial
and Developing Countries
Financial Management Cycle
Issues in Practice
Policy Management
Segmented and Integrated
Approaches
Intent and Outcome
Anchor of Expenditure Management
Delivery of Services
Fraud and Waste
Neglected Fault Lines
Transparency and Accountability
Tasks Ahead
ELUSIVE NEXUS: BASIC NEEDS AND
FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION
A Brief History
Participation in development
The Theories of Basic Needs and
Decentralization
Basic Needs
Decentralization
The Nexus
Previous Empirical Work
An empirical test of the common
ground
The Model
Dependent Variable: The Human
Development Index
Independent Variables
Control Variables
Final Model Equation
The Data: Caveats
The results
The Basic Needs Indices and
Decentralization
The Colonial History Control
Variables
MEASURING PERFORMANCE IN PUBLIC
SECTOR PROGRAMS
Significance
State of the Art
Implementation
Limitations
Institutional Context
The Bottom Line.
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Administrative Power,
Discretion, and the Rule of Law
Administrative Rulemaking
How
much independence should
administrative agencies have in
developing and issuing rules?
What values should be emphasized
in rulemaking procedures?
By
what criteria should rules be
judged?
What are some common types of
rulemaking?
Administrative Adjudication
Enforcement
Transparency
The Legal
Status of Public Agencies and
Administrators
External
Review of Agency Operations
Substantive Review of
Administrative Decisions
Procedural Review of Agency
Actions
THE OMBUDSMAN OFFICE
Historical Creation of Ombudsman
Offices
What is an Ombudsman?
The mission of the ombudsman
What is a classical ombudsman?
Independence from those being
investigated
Impartiality and Fairness
Credible Review Process
Confidentiality
The International Ombudsman
Institute
Current State of the Ombudsman
Concept
Ombudsman Office in Context of
Other Correction Mechanisms
The Specifics of the Ombudsmans
Job
Ombudsman Office Compared to
Other Avenues for Remedy
Effectiveness of the Ombudsman
ETHICS IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS
Ethics at the Institutional
Level
Ethics at the Organizational
Level
Prevention, Investigation, and
Prosecution
Leadership and Organizational
Culture
Ethics at the Individual Public
Servant Level
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND
DIFFUSION
The Beginnings of Technology
Dissemination
Technology: Multiple Definitions
Languages and Codes
Customs, Traditions, Rituals,
and Rites
Applied Concepts and Knowledge
Manufactured Goods and Tools
Natural Objects Adapted for Use
Aesthetic Objects and
Performances
Impact on Societies
Level of Impact
Nature of Consequences
The Process of Technology
Dissemination
Stages in Technology
Dissemination
Stage 1: Innovation
Stage 2: Communication
Stage 3: Adoption
Technology Dissemination depends
upon People, Things, Places
People: The Actors and their
Roles
Things: The Donors Technology
and the Recipients Need
Places: The Settings Across
Times and Localities
Policy and Practice in
Technology Dissemination
Purposes and Formal
Organizations
Factors Affecting Policies and
Practices
Cultures
Resources
Relationships
Technology Dissemination:
Prospects and Ramifications
Development Cycle
The Pace of Dissemination
Bottom-line Ramification
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICY AS A LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM
RESPONSE
Environmental Policy Challenges
in the 21st Century
Global Capitalism versus
Individual Economies
Northern Consumption versus
Southern Population
Environmental Security versus
Diplomatic Security
Political Sovereignty versus
Global Public Sphere
Individual Accountability versus
Global Responsibilities
Anthropocentric Values versus
Environmental Ethics
Environmental Policy as a
Response System
Environmental Ethics as the
Foundation
Global Responsibility as the
Principle
Local Decision-making as the
System of Governance
Quality of Life as the Goal
DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES AND
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN SOUTH
AFRICA
The South African context
Growth, development and the
environment
Sustainable development
Natural resource economics
policy in South Africa
Integrated pollution and waste
management
Linkages with macro-economic
policy
Approaches to integrated
pollution and waste management
Operation of environmental
management policy
The environment as an asset
The design of environmental
policy
Environmental management as an
integral part of business
strategy
CORRUPTION IN ASIAN COUNTRIES:
CAN IT BE MINIMIZED?
Levels of Asian corruption
Measuring corruption
Anti-corruption strategies
"Hopeless" strategies
Peoples Republic of China
Indonesia
Bangladesh
Ineffective strategies
The Philippines
South Korea
Thailand
Effective Strategy
Lessons from Singapore
Reducing opportunities for
corruption
Reducing incentives for
corruption
POLITICS OF PREFERENCE: LESSONS
FROM INDIA, UNITED STATES AND
SOUTH AFRICA
Case for and against AA
Policy initiatives
Politics of preference
An assessment
INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES INVOLVING
ETHICS AND JUSTICE
Approaches to ethics:
justification and adjudication
Approaches to ethics: content
Ethics and the idea of community
Levels of ethics: personal,
professional, institutional,
global
Justice and its elements
Sustainability and development
ETHICS FUNDAMENTALS AND
APPROACHES TO ETHICS
Ethical Egoism
The Contract Theory of Hobbes
Utilitarianism
Pragmatism
The Theory of Aristotle
The Theory of Kant
Confucianism
Existentialism
SURVIVAL, SOCIETY, AND ETHICS IN
HUMAN EVOLUTION
Humans Evolving
The Hypothetical Biological
Human
Real Humans and Their
Evolutionary Strategy
Society and CultureThe
Life-Support System
The Learning Trap
Language
Society, Culture, and Reality
A Multiplicity of Realities
Construing Others Construction
of Reality
The Constraints of the Social
Construction of Reality
Rules
The Authority for Rules
SOCIETY, ETHICS, AND THE
ANTHROPOLOGIST
The Unity of Humankind
The Sanctity of Society
Reciprocity
The Circle of Preservation
Proto-Ethics
Extensions of Identity
Ethical Style in Small-Scale
Societies
Ethics and the Anthropologist
Learning and Finding
Privacy and Intrusion
Ethical Discomfort and Conflicts
Codes of Practice
CULTURAL RELATIVISM
Descriptive Cultural Relativism
Autonomy-Oriented versus
Community-Oriented Cultures
Attunement versus Prediction and
Control
Charity in Interpreting Cultural
Difference
Epistemological Cultural
Relativism
General versus Domain-Specific
Epistemological Relativism
Cognitive versus Non-Cognitive
Versions of Ethics Specific
Relativism
Objections to Epistemological
Relativism Based on Ethical
Similarities
Objections Based on the
Possibility of Criticism of
Ethical Codes
Normative Cultural Relativism
Differences in the Way Normative
Relativism Is Conceived and
Derived
Balancing Non-Intervention with
Other Values
Cultural Relativism and Human
Rights
CONSEQUENTIALISM
The Character of
Consequentialism
The Structure of
Consequentialism
Some Consequentialist Theories
Objections to Consequentialism
Prospects for Future Development
RIGHTS
Who or What Can Possess a Right?
What Can Be the Content of a
Right? What Sort of Things Are
There Rights To?
Rights and Justice
The Roots of RightsSocial
Construct or an Essential Moral
Concept?
Critics of Rights
Conflicts of Rights
Environmental Rights and Duties
Justifying Rights
VIRTUES
Philosophical Background
Basic Normative Virtue Ethics
Familiar Virtues and Vices
New Virtues?
The Future
COMMUNITARIAN VALUES
Community and the Common Good
Community
Common Good
The Communitarian Critique of
Liberalism
A Defective View of the Person
Liberal Universalism
The Neglected Value of Community
Consequences for Politics
State Neutrality
Individual Rights
Policies
PERSPECTIVES ON ETHICS
Human Actions as Subject to
Ethical Obligations
The Source and Construction of
Ethical Obligations
What Other Entities Deserve Our
Ethical Recognition?
Questions of the Good Life and
Questions of Genuine Ethics
Three Zones of Political Justice
The Individual Zone
The Political Zone
The Relative Zone
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development and
Different Sorts of Ethics
PERSONAL ETHICS
Personal Ethics as Moral
Commitment
Personal Ethics as a Challenge
to the Universalization
Principle
Personal Ethics as Exercising
Virtues
Virtues and Community: A Modern
Reformulation of Ethics of
Virtue
THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROFESSIONAL
ETHICS
Three Types of Professional
Ethics
Sociological Foundations
Goals of Professional Work and
Their Problems
Normative and Evaluative
Elements in Professional Work
Duty and Obligation
Professional Rights
Virtues in Professional Life
Engineering Ethics
The Service Ideal of Engineering
The Principle of Double
Loyalties
Progress and Rationality in
Engineering Ethics
The Technological System and Its
Main Characteristics
The Future of Engineering Ethics
INSTITUTIONAL ETHICS
The Institution as a Moral Agent
Indications That Institutions
Should Be Considered Moral
Agents
Institutional Agent Properties
Intent and Decision Making
within Institutions
Institutions May Dissolve and
Evade Responsibility
The Moral Importance of
InstitutionsImpact
Individuals Fulfilling Moral
Obligations Through Institutions
Moral Records and the Grounds
for Blaming
Institutionalizing Institutional
Responsibility
Ethical Misconduct and
Institutional LoyaltyWhistle
Blowing
Institutional Ethics and Ethical
Platforms
Institutional Behavior, Moral,
and Non-Moral MotivesPrudence
Impact on a Collective and on an
Individual Level
Impact and Future Generations
Knowledge and
ResponsibilitySagesse Oblige
Knowledge and Application of
Knowledge
InstitutionsRelevant and
Irrelevant Types
Governments, Nations
Nongovernmental Organizations
The Business Community
GLOBAL ETHICS
The Role of Global Ethics
The Implications of a Particular
Global Ethic
Whose Needs? The Relevance of
Non-Humans
What Needs?
Dimensions of Global Security
A Sketch of a Global Ethic
The Idea of a Global Ethic
Moral and Institutional
Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism in International
Relations Theory
Arguments against a Cosmopolitan
Ethic for Individuals
Relativism
Communitarianism
Three Types of Normative
International Relations Theory
Skeptical Realism
Internationalism
Objections to Non-Cosmopolitan
Theories
Comparison with the
Encyclopedias Goals
Varieties of
Cosmopolitanism/Global Ethics
Kantianism
Human Rights Theories
Other Theories and the Challenge
of Non-Anthropocentric Values
JUSTICE ESSENTIALS
What is Justice?
The Elements of Justice
The Elements of Rights: Hohfelds
Classic Analysis
The Elements of Justice and
Theories of Justice
Doubts About Essentialist
Definitions
Theories of Justice
Justice as Rational Agreements
for Mutual Benefit
Hobbes Theory
Neo-Hobbesian Theory: Justice as
Rational Mutual Advantage
The Prisoners Dilemma
Justice as Mutual Gain
Lockean Justice
Desert, Merit and Distributive
Justice
Justice and Contributions to the
Common Good
Civil Justice and Facilitatory
Social Justice
Justice as Fairness
Egalitarian Justice
Fundamental Equality
Equal Welfare
Equal Satisfaction of Needs
Equal Resources
Basic Capability Equality and
Needs
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Robert Nozick
John Rawls
Michael Walzer
Analytical Marxism
Sustainability
CULTURAL JUSTICE
Justice as Cultural
Justice between Cultures
Rights for Groups, or Only for
Individuals?
Group Rights and Affirmative
Action
Group Rights and Cultural
Difference
Cultural Justice and Colonial
Societies
Cultural Justice and Citizenship
What Rights Do Cultural Groups
Need? Critiques of Differential
Cultural Rights
Cultural Justice and Non-Ethnic
Cultural Minorities
Culture, Justice, and
Globalization
INTERGENERATIONAL JUSTICE
Moral Sensibility for Unborn
Generations
Future Generations Are
Disadvantaged
Degradation in the Quality of
Environmental and Cultural Life
Conserving the Common Heritage
for Future Generations
A "Guardian" for Future
Generations
Rawls "Just Saving Principle"
and Future Generations
The Relational Theory of
Intergenerational Justice
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Varieties of Justice
Distributive Environmental
Justice for Humans
Justice for Future Generations
Interspecies Justice
Prejudice and Injustice
Minimalist Methodologies of
Closure
Regan, Rights, and Vegetarian
Justice
Anthropocentrism, Justice, and
the Othering of Nature
Radical Exclusion
Homogenization/Stereotyping
Backgrounding, Denial
Incorporation
Instrumentalism
Othering as an Impediment to
Justice
Counter-Hegemonic Virtues
RECTIFICATORY JUSTICE: RIGHTING
PAST WRONGS
Means and Ends
Cross-Cultural Goals
Truth
Public Platform for Victims
Accountability and Punishment
Rule of Law
Compensation to Victims
Institutional Reform and
Long-Term Development
Reconciliation
Public Deliberation
Placing Goals and Tools in
Context
ETHICS AND JUSTICE NEEDS FOR
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Sustainable Development,
Environmentalisms, and Justice
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