New social risks are key factors for social cohesion of local community and society. Currently new social risks which are caused by changes in a society appears more frequently than efore. While previously the groups of underprivileged were counted in endangered groups, now middle class can be...

Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Economics and Imbalances -- 1.1. Capturing power -- 1.1.1. From eco-development to sustainable development -- 1.1.2. Interest and limits of the decoupling concept -- 1.2. Systemic approach to...

Introduction -- Measuring urban environmental quality -- The urban environmental Kuznets curve -- Income growth and the urban environment: -- The role of the market -- Income growth and greener governance -- Population growth and the urban environment -- Spatial growth: the environmental cost of...