Reimpresión: 2002 CONTENIDO: Policy and politics in urban enviromental strategies -- Issues of inequality in managing water supply in Asian cities/p.B. Anand -- Enviromental management in the cape metropolitan area/Amanda Younge -- The national urban parks programme in Santiago, Chile/Sergio F. Leòn balza -- Management of the urban enviroment/Michael mattingly -- Sustainable urban development and urban poor in Rio de Janeiro/David Edelman -- Solid wate management in Colombo/V. U. Ratnayake -- Organisation and politics in urban enviromental management/Julio D. Dàvila -- Beyond the myths of the new enviromental localism/Simon Marvin -- Decentralisation, local autonomy and metropolitan influence: the case of Salvador, Brazil/Celina Souza -- Research management as an approach to solving enviromental conflicts in metropolitan areas: a case study of the Manizales-Villamarìa conurbation, Colombia/Luz Stella Velàsquez and Margarita Pachecho -- Community based enviromental management in urban Tanzania/Alphonce G. Kyessi