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Examines reaction to a water-pollution problem by examining relations between the paper mill which is the major employer, residents, and environmental activists in a rural town; Florida.

Front Cover -- About Island Press -- Subscribe -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Additional Authors -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Cities and Climate Change Connections -- Chapter 2: Urban Systems and Climate Change in Context -- Chapter 3: Urban Systems and Services: Vulnerabilities and Impact -- Chapter 4: Urban Climate Adaptation Planning, Governance, and Economics -- Chapter 5: Sustained Urban Climate Assessment -- Chapter 6: Conclusions and Recommendations: Prospects for Action -- About the Editors -- Island Press | Board of Directors.

Introduction / JoAnn Carmin Dedication -- Urbanization impacts on environmental systems and driver of global environmental change -- Urbanization, economic growth and sustainability / Michail Fragkias -- Urbanization, food consumption and the environment / Shannon Murray, Samara Brock and Karen C. Seto -- Urbanization and agricultural land / Xiangzheng Deng -- Urbanization and land use / Dagmar Haase and Nina Schwarz -- Contemporary urbanization in India / Chandana Mitra, Bhartendu Pandey, Nick B. Allen and Karen C. Seto -- Resource use for the construction and operation of built environments / Burak Güneralp -- Harnessing urban water demand : lessons from North America / Patricia Gober and Ray Quay -- Urbanization, energy use and emissions / Peter J.Marcotullio -- Suburban landscapes and lifestyles, globalization, and exporting the American dream / Robin M. Leichenko and William Solecki -- Urbanization, habitat loss and biodiversity decline : solution pathways to break the cycle / Thomas Elmqvist, Wayne C. Zipperer and Burak Güneralp -- Urban precipitation : a global perspective / Chandana Mitra and J. Marshall Shepherd -- How is urbanization altering local and regional climate? / CSB Grimmond, Helen C Ward, and Simone Kotthaus -- Urban nutrient cycling / Lucy R. Hutyra -- Global environmental change impacts on urban systems and urbanization processes -- Introduction -- A broader framing of ecosystem services in cities : benefits and challenges of built, natural or hybrid system function / Nancy B. Grimm, Elizabeth M. Cook, Rebecca L. Hale and David M. Iwaniec -- Urbanization, vulnerability and risk / Patricia Romero-Lankao and Daniel -- Knatz -- Extreme events and their impacts on urban areas / Andrea Ferraz Young -- Water supply and urban water availability / Stephan Pfister, Stefan Schultze and Stefanie Hellweg -- Urban water quality / Conor Murphy -- Urban greening, human health, and wellbeing / Alexei Trundle and Darryn McEvoy -- Food price volatility and urban food insecurity / Marc J. Cohen and James L. Garrett -- Urbanization and global environmental change : from a gender and equity perspective / Gotelind Alber and Kate Cahoon -- Urban responses to global environmental change -- Environmental justice and transitions to a sustainable urban future / Christopher G. Boone and Sonja Klinsky -- Progress and challenges in urban climate adaptation planning / Linda Shi, Eric Chu and JoAnn Carmin -- Adaptation to climate change in rapidly growing cities / Roberto Sánchez-Rodríguez -- Spatial planning : an integrative approach to climate change response / Shu-Li Huang and Szu-Hua Wang -- Climate change mitigation in high-income cities / Eugene Mohareb, David Bristow and Sybil Derrible -- Climate change mitigation in medium-sized, low-income cities / Shuaib Lwasa -- Urban and peri-urban agriculture : cultivating urban climate resilience / Corrie Griffith, John P. Connors, Camille Nolasco, Bolanle Wahab and Frank Mugagga -- Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into urban planning and conservation / Robert McDonald -- The potential of the green economy and urban greening for addressing urban environmental change / David Simon -- Positive externalities in the urban boundary : the case of industrial symbiosis / Marian Chertow, Junming Zhu and Valerie Moye -- Resilient urban infrastructure for adapting to extreme environmental disruptions / Rae Zimmerman -- Soft and hard infrastructure co-production and lock-in : the challenges for a post-carbon city / Stephanie Pincetl -- Urbanization, global change, and sustainability : critical emerging integrative research -- Adaptation, transformation and transition : approaches to the sustainability challenge / Charles L. Redman -- City action for global environmental change : assessment and case study of Durban, South africa / Debra Roberts -- Climate change mitigation in rapidly developing cities / Alexander Aylett, Boyd Dionysius Joeman, Benoit Lefevre, Andrés Luque-Ayala, Atiqur Rahman, Debra Roberts and Sarah Ward -- Conclusion the road ahead for urbanization and sustainability research -- Box 1. What we need from an urban science : not only planning, but also operations / Colin Harrison -- Box 2. Key concepts for an urban science : urban scaling and cities as social reactors / Luis Bettencourt -- Box 3. The future of the science of cities, urbanism, and urbanization : the places left behind / Colin Harrison -- Box 4. Urbanization and environmental change in china : challenges and opportunities / Weiqi Zhou and Zhiyun Ouyang -- Box 5. Satellite-derived data on global urban human settlements / Martino Pesaresi and Thomas Kemper

Objectives. By a two to one margin, New Jersey voters in 1998 approved a ballot measure authorizing a 10‐year, 1‐billion dollar open‐space acquisition program. This article's principal objectives are to investigate and explain the spatial character of that vote.Methods. Our methods consists of regression and principal components analyses; we use municipal‐level data to define statewide patterns of voter support and participation in relation to a series of socioeconomic, political, and environmental variables.Results. The analyses yielded two major findings: (1) support for the ballot measure was widespread, but exceptionally strong in the "wealth belt" area of north‐central New Jersey, and (2) voter participation, defined as those voting on the measure as a proportion of all who voted, lagged in the core urban areas.Conclusions. Our conclusions point critically to the importance of socioeconomic status, urban residence, and presence of existing open‐space regulations—as well as rapid changes in the overall sociopolitical landscape—in explaining voter behavior.

Objectives. By a two to one margin, New Jersey voters in 1998 approved a ballot measure authorizing a 10-year, 1-billion dollar open-space acquisition program. This article's principal objectives are to investigate & explain the spatial character of that vote. Methods. Our methods consists of regression & principal components analyses; we use municipal-level data to define statewide patterns of voter support & participation in relation to a series of socioeconomic, political, & environmental variables. Results. The analyses yielded two major findings: (1) support for the ballot measure was widespread, but exceptionally strong in the "wealth belt" area of north-central New Jersey, & (2) voter participation, defined as those voting on the measure as a proportion of all who voted, lagged in the core urban areas. Conclusions. Our conclusions point critically to the importance of socioeconomic status, urban residence, & presence of existing open-space regulations -- as well as rapid changes in the overall sociopolitical landscape -- in explaining voter behavior. 3 Tables, 3 Figures, 35 References. Adapted from the source document.

Objectives. By a two to one margin, New Jersey voters in 1998 approved a ballot measure authorizing a 10-year, 1-billion dollar open-space acquisition program. This article's principal objectives are to investigate and explain the spatial character of that vote. Methods. Our methods consists of regression and principal components analyses; we use municipal-level data to define statewide patterns of voter support and participation in relation to a series of socioeconomic, political, and environmental variables. Results. The analyses yielded two major findings: (1) support for the ballot measure was widespread, but exceptionally strong in the "wealth belt" area of north-central New Jersey, and (2) voter participation, defined as those voting on the measure as a proportion of all who voted, lagged in the core urban areas. Conclusions. Our conclusions point critically to the importance of socioeconomic status, urban residence, and presence of existing open-space regulations - as well as rapid changes in the overall sociopolitical landscape - in explaining voter behavior. (Original abstract)