The Urban Climate Challenge: Rethinking the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime (Cities and Global Governance)

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Synopsis
Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives, The Urban Climate Challenge provides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime. Bringing together experts working in the fields of global environmental governance, urban sustainability and climate change, this volume explores the ways in which cities, transnational urban networks and global policy institutions are repositioning themselves in relation to this changing global policy environment. Focusing on both Northern and Southern experience across the globe, three questions that have strong bearing on the ways in which we understand and assess the changing relationship between cities and global climate system are examined. How are cities repositioning themselves in relation to the global climate regime? How are cities being repositioned - conceptually and epistemologically? What are the prospects for crafting policies that can reduce the urban carbon footprint while at the same time building resilience to future climate change? The Urban Climate Challenge will be of interest to scholars of urban climate policy, global environmental governance and climate change. It will be of interest to readers more generally interested in the ways in which cities are now addressing the inter-related challenges of sustainable urban growth and global climate change. Chapter 9 and Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.tandfebooks.com/openaccess. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
Copyright:
2012

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
258 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317680055
Related ISBNs:
9781138776883, 9781138066571, 9781315772981
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Noah Toly, Craig Johnson, Heike Schroeder
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Craig Johnson
Edited by:
Noah Toly
Edited by:
Heike Schroeder

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