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OverviewThe confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as ‘an urgent agenda’ (World Bank 2010). The contribution of cities to rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions coupled with concerns about the vulnerability of urban places and communities to the impacts of climate change have led to a relatively recent and rapidly proliferating interest amongst both academic and policy communities in how cities might be able to respond to mitigation and adaptation. Attention has focused on the potential for municipal authorities to develop policy and plans that can address these twin issues, and the challenges of capacity, resource and politics that have been encountered. While this literature has captured some of the essential means through which the urban response to climate change is being forged, is that it has failed to take account of the multiple sites and spaces of climate change response that are emerging in cities ‘off-plan’. An Urban Politics of Climate Change provides the first account of urban responses to climate change that moves beyond the boundary of municipal institutions to critically examine the governing of climate change in the city as a matter of both public and private authority, and to engage with the ways in which this is bound up with the politics and practices of urban infrastructure. The book draws on cases from multiple cities in both developed and emerging economies to providing new insight into the potential and limitations of urban responses to climate change, as well as new conceptual direction for our understanding of the politics of environmental governance. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Harriet Bulkeley (University of Durham, UK) , Vanesa Broto (University College London, UK) , Gareth Edwards (University of East Anglia, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.521kg ISBN: 9781138791091ISBN 10: 1138791091 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 24 October 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationHarriet Bulkeley is Professor of Geography at the University of Durham. Her research interests are in the nature and politics of environmental governance, with a particular focus on climate change, energy and urban sustainability. She is author of Climate Change and the City (Routledge, Critical Introductions to the City 2012), and (with Peter Newell) of Governing Climate Change (Routledge 2010). Vanesa Castán Broto is a Lecturer at the Development and Planning Unit of the Barlett Faculty of the Built Environment in University College London. She teaches at the post-graduate level in urban political ecology and sustainable development, urban development planning and urban resilience. Gareth Edwards is a Lecturer in Geography and Development in the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia. His research interests centre on the ethics of environmental governance, with a focus on the political ecology of climate change and water. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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