Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital

George A. Gonzalez is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami. He is the author of The Politics of Air Pollution: Urban Growth, Ecological Modernization, and Symbolic Inclusion and the coeditor (with Sheldon Kamieniecki and Robert O. Vos) of Flashpoints in Environmental Policymaking: Controversies in Achieving Sustainability, both also published by SUNY Press.

• Acknowledgments1. Urban Sprawl and the Empire of Capital2. Political Economy and the Imperatives of the State3. Real Estate Interests and the Techniques of Urban Sprawl4. The Federal Government and the National Establishment of Urban Sprawl5. U.S. Oil Policy and Urban Sprawl6. Democratic Ethics, Environmental Groups, and Symbolic Inclusion: The Case of Global WarmingConclusion: Political Power and the Future of the PlanetNotesReferencesIndex

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