[GreenYes] Special issue: Global Impact of Cities

["Cheryl Myrup" <cheryl.myrup@no.address>]

Dear GreenYes colleagues,

The Journal of
Industrial Ecology has recently published a special issue on
Industrial Ecology and the Global Impact of Cities.

The environmental impact of cities importantly extends beyond their
borders.  Cities produce greenhouse gases whose impact is global.
More subtly, urban residents engender resource extraction and
manufacturing--with all the attendant environmental pressures--beyond the
city boundaries.

Contributors to the special issue examined environmental impacts of
cities, in Singapore, Barcelona, Toronto, China, and Southeast Asia as a
whole.  The topics ranged from the prospects for addressing global
warming in urban policy to resource flows in cities. 

Selected articles in the special issue are available in electronic form
through
<
www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/jiec/11/2> for free download. The
Journal of Industrial Ecology is a peer-reviewed international
quarterly published by MIT Press, owned by Yale University, and
headquartered at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Dr. Xuemei Bai of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency, served as
guest editor. 
 
Partial funding for the special issue was provided by the Institute for
Global Environmental Strategies in Kanagawa, Japan, and the Industrial
Transformation Project of the International Human Dimensions Programme on
Global Change.

[please excuse any cross-postings, but do forward this announcement to
others that might be interested]

Sincerely,
Cheryl Myrup
Assistant editor,
Journal of Industrial Ecology

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Cheryl W. Myrup                      School of Forestry & Env. Studies
Assistant Editor                       Yale University
Journal of Industrial Ecology      205 Prospect Street
cheryl.myrup@no.address            New Haven, CT 06511-2189  USA
www.mitpressjournals.org/jie