Urban, demographic and climate trends are increasingly exposing cities to risks of having too little, too much and too polluted water. Facing these challenges requires robust public policies and sound governance frameworks to co-ordinate across multiple scales, authorities, and policy domains....

Resilience is increasingly becoming a catchword in current discussions about urban and regional development. While there has been a strong research focus on sustainability, there is a lack of understanding of the processes and factors that make cities and regions more vulnerable and others more...

Klappentext: Die Umweltpoltik repariert mit den Geldern, die über das Wirtschaften verdient werden, die Schäden, die eben diese Wirtschaftstätigkeit anrichtet. Dieser Zustand kann nicht optimal sein. Diese Arbeit untersucht die Zusammenhänge zwischen Wirtschafts- und Umweltpolitik auf...