Towards a Sustainable Urban Environment: The Rio de Janeiro Study

摘要

Contents: Rio de Janeiro--In Search of Sustainability; Rio de Janeiro--NaturalBeauty as a Public Good; Coastal Zone Management in the Metropolitan Area of Rio de Janeiro; Institutional Framework of Environmental Policy in Brazil; Historical Perspective on the Institutional Framework for Urban Policy; Government Expenditures and Financing on the Environment in Brazil and Rio de Janeiro; Summary of Recent Research on Urban-Environmental Issues; The Rio Reconstruction Project--The First Two Years; Rio and the World Bank--The Start of a Productive Relationship; Appropriate Technologies for Urban Services--Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro.