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The Basin of Mexico : critical environmental issues and sustainability / Exequiel Ezcurra [and others].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UNU studies on critical environmental regionsPublication details: Tokyo : United Nations University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 216 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585162948
  • 9780585162942
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Basin of Mexico.DDC classification:
  • 363.7/00972/53 21
LOC classification:
  • GE160.M6 B38 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 74.26
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- The environmental history of the basin -- The socio-economy of the Basin of Mexico -- Recent changes in the environmental situation of the basin -- The driving forces of environmental change -- The vulnerability of the basin -- The response to the environmental problem -- Conclusions.
Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-206) and index.

Print version record.

Introduction -- The environmental history of the basin -- The socio-economy of the Basin of Mexico -- Recent changes in the environmental situation of the basin -- The driving forces of environmental change -- The vulnerability of the basin -- The response to the environmental problem -- Conclusions.

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"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.

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