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Article: Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles.(Book Review)
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- August 1, 2005
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Nature and the City: Making Environmental Policy in Toronto and Los Angeles
Desfor, Gene and Roger Keil. 2004. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 274 pp., ISBN 0-8165-2373-8, $54.00 ($45.00 U.S.) cloth.
In Nature and the City, Desfor and Keil trace the discourses that connect policymaking processes, the forces of globalization, and the relationship between humans and their local environment. They accomplish this by analyzing the narratives and discourses surrounding four 1990's policy cases in two cities: the Don River restoration and a soil remediation project in Toronto and, in Los Angeles, air quality management and the restoration of the Los ...