Urban centres are bastions of inequalities, where poverty, marginalization, segregation and health insecurity are magnified. Minorities and the poor – often residing in neighbourhoods characterized by
This book brings together scholars whose work helps to better model and articulate how to enhance the coping capacity and adaptation of city dwellers toward environmental and climate change. It propos
Smith (sociology, State U. of New York at Stony Brook) and Johnston (sociology, San Diego State U.) bring together essays that assess the implications of globalization of political mobilization and ex