London: A Sustainable City?Author(s): Ian LivingstoneSource: Area, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Mar., 2001), p. 77Published by: Wiley on behalf of The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of BritishGeographers)Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20004126 .

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Area (2001) 33.1, 77-1 06

Observations

London: a sustainable city?

Ian Livingstone School of Environmental Science, University College Northampton, Northampton, NN2 7AL

Email: ian.livingstone(northampton.ac.uk

This manuscript was received 1 8 October 2000

Key words: London, sustainability, housing, transport, water resources, air quality, waste management

This collection of 'Observations' arises from a session at the British Association for the Advance

ment of Science Festival of Science in September 2000. The session was convened by the BA's Geography section and held at the Royal Geographi cal Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). The speakers were asked to talk about the ways in which London might become a sustainable city in the future. To place the other papers in a wider context, Michael Parkinson discussed some of the issues facing all the cities with global influence such as London, and his paper provides the introduction to this set. After that the papers concentrate on different aspects of London's environment, covering housing (Chris Hamnett), health (Sarah Curtis), trans

port (Martin Frost), water resources (Chris Birks et al.), air quality (Sean Beevers et al.) and waste management (Adam Read). In each paper the authors have provided information about where London stands today, and then highlighted the issues that London faces in the future.

For the British Association, which has a remit to improve public understanding of science by bringing scientific work to a wider audience, this session provided examples of the ways in which geogra phers tackle real environmental issues. For geogra phers, this set of papers demonstrates some ways in which physical and human geographers (and those in allied disciplines) can combine to tackle such issues.

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