Notes

1. Horvath, A. (2004). “Construction Materials and the Environment,” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 29: 186.

2. cf. http://www.eartheasy.com/article_global_warming.htm (2.1.2007).

3. Montague, T. and Montague, P. (2007). “Stepping Back from the Brink of Global Warming,” Rachel’s Democracy and Health News, 888 (4 January).

4. Girardet, H. (2000). “Greening Urban Society,” in W. Fox (ed.), Ethics and the Built Environment (London: Routledge), pp. 15–30.

5. Depending on what is included in the footprint, it can be seen as being even higher. The WWF et al. (2006) (“Counting Consumption: CO2 Emissions, Material Flows and Ecological Footprint of the UK by Region and Devolved Country”) calculate the ecological footprint of the Southeast population as approximately 6.3 gha/cap (which is seen as the highest in the UK) with food and agriculture 1.14 gha/cap, transport 1.26 gha/cap, and domestic energy and construction 1.3 gha/cap. (This equates to twenty-five times the actual land area.)

6. Girardet (2000), p. 19.

7. London lost nearly a million inhabitants between 1950 and 1996.

8. From “Mega Cities and Mega Slums in the 21st Century” by the editors of WaterAid Web, quoted from http://www.ittind.com/waterbook/mega_cities.asp (2.1.2007).

9. cf. Kenworthy, J., Laube, F. and Newman, P. (1999). An International Sourcebook of Automobile Dependence in Cities, 1960–1990. (Boulder, Colo.: University of Colorado Press).

10. Newman, P. and Kenworthy, J. (2006). “Urban Design to ...

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