Ecological Economics or Relocating Global Cities

Ecological Economics: An Introduction

Author: Sigrid Stagl

Assuming no prior knowledge of economics, this textbook is intended for interdisciplinary environmental science and management courses. The authors, who have written extensively on the economics of sustainability, combine insights from mainstream economics as well as ecological sciences.

Part I explores the interdependence of the modern economy and its environment, while

Part II focuses mainly on the economy and on economics.

Part III reviews how national governments set policy targets and the instruments used to pursue those targets.

Part IV examines international trade and institutions, and two major global threats to sustainability - climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Relocating Global Cities: From the Center to the Margins

Author: M Mark Amen

Drawing on eight case studies from key cities on the periphery of global cities literature, Relocating Global Cities argues that all cities are globalizing in important ways. Case studies of Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Manila, Tampa, Sydney, Brussels, and Caracas provide the basis for an alternative theoretical approach to global city formation. Reconciling a market-based understanding and an agency-based understanding of global cities, this book proposes that globalization and cities are mutually constituted by the global political economy engaging with transnational and local agents.

This volume proposes an alternate theoretical approach to the literature of globalization while remaining grounded in concrete discussions of key cities. Its expert contributors reconcile the conflicting ways in which two dominant paradigms, one emphasizing market forces and the other the unique actions of individuals and groups, embody our understanding of global cities. This book will be of interest to students and researchers alike and is a perfect complement to texts in urban studies and globalization.

Table of Contents:

1	Thinking through global cities	1
2	In London's long shadow : Frankfurt in the European space of flows	23
3	Johannesburg 1986-2030 : a quest to regain world status	49
4	Bangkok : intentional world city	75
5	Laboring in the periphery : the place of Manila in the global economy	101
6	Place-imaging Tampa in the age of globalization	117
7	Gentrification, globalization, and governance : the reterritorialization of Sydney's city-state	139
8	Reluctant globalizers : the paradoxes of "glocal" development in Brussels	155
9	The processes underlying Caracas as a globalizing city	179
10	Reconsidering the social structuration of globalization	201