Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions

Synopsis

Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling toan international audience into how cities address the sustainability challengesthey face. They do this by not repeating old patterns but by searching for newand innovative methods and instruments based on shared principles of atransitions approach. The book describes the quest of cities on two continentsto accelerate and stimulate such a transition to sustainability. The aim of thebook is twofold: to provide insights into how cities are addressing thischallenge conceptually and practically, and to learn from a comparison ofgovernance strategies in Europe and Asia. The book is informed by transitionthinking as it was developed in the last decade in Europe and as it isincreasingly being applied in Asia. The analytical framework is based onprinciples of transition management, which draws on insights from complexityscience, sociology, and governance theories. Only recently this approach hasbeen adapted to the urban context, and this book is an opportunity to share theseexperiences with a wider audience. For scholars this work offers a presentationof recent state-of-the-art theoretical developments in transition governanceapplied to the context of cities. For urban planners, professionals, andpractitioners it offers a framework for understanding ongoing developments aswell as methods and instruments for dealing with them. The content ispotentially appealing to post-graduate and graduate students of environmentalmanagement, policy studies, and urban studies programs.

Copyright:

2016

Book Details

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9784431554264

Publisher:

Springer Japan, Tokyo

Date of Addition:

09/27/16

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences

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This is a copyrighted book.