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OverviewThis significant book addresses the most important legal issues that cities face when attempting to adapt to the changing climate. This includes how to become more resilient against the impacts of climate change such as sea level rise, increases in the intensity and frequency of storms, floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures. A range of expert contributors are brought together to assess the current state of climate change law and policy at the city level, featuring analysis of key legal instruments that can help urban societies adapt to, and cope with, the changing climate. Chapters contain comparative assessments of urban climate change policies in cities across the world, in both developed and developing countries, including Ghana, South Africa, Indonesia, the Netherlands and the US. Additionally, the book analyses legal approaches, relying on planning law and other legal instruments in the hands of city governments, which can aid in combating specific problems such as the urban heat island effect. Providing an up-to-date analysis of climate change adaptation and mitigation law at the level of cities, Urban Climate Resilience will be a key resource for academics and students of environmental law, public international law, urban planning and sustainability. The lessons for future policies and laws to create more climate resilient cities will also be useful for local policymakers, regulators and city government officials working on climate change at the local level. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Angela van der Berg , Jonathan VerschuurenPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd ISBN: 9781803922492ISBN 10: 1803922494 Pages: 402 Publication Date: 13 September 2022 Audience: Professional and 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 ContentsContents: Foreword by Gianluca Crispi xiv 1 Introduction to climate resilient cities and the law 1 Angela van der Berg and Jonathan Verschuuren 2 The role of international law in enhancing urban climate resilience 20 Esme Shirlow 3 Legislating for urban climate resilience: the case of Amsterdam 44 Sol Maria Halleck Vega and Josephine van Zeben 4 Indian cities' climate resilience: what role for transnational environmental law? 70 Tuula Honkonen 5 Enabling urban climate action in Accra, Ghana: policy pathways and advances toward urban climate resilience 104 Michael Addaney 6 Resilience justice and adaptive law in European cities 124 Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold and Tiago de Melo Cartaxo 7 Room available: an overview of the literature on urban private property adaptation law 150 Joris van Laarhoven 8 Strategic adaptation to climate change: a legal comparative study of Lyon and Montreal with a focus on urban heat islands 191 Emma Novel 9 Advancing climate resilience in US cities through green infrastructure by leveraging their dual roles as regulator and regulated under the US Clean Water Act 221 Robert Weinstock 10 The climate change mitigation and adaptation imperative in South Africa's Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013 (SPLUMA) 253 Jeannie van Wyk and Mark Oranje 11 Good governance and flood management in Jakarta 277 Natalia Yeti Puspita 12 Racing to defeat climate change on reluctant roads: autonomous vehicles, urban climate resilience, and legal reform 306 Tracy Hresko Pearl 13 Shared mobility towards urban climate resilience in the city of Johannesburg 326 Angela van der Berg and Anel du Plessis 14 Urban warfare: expanding legal approaches to urban climate policy in the United States 359 M Alexander Pearl IndexReviews'Urban form, function and governance must urgently adapt in and for a new normal where disasters, crises and other socio-economic stressors are no longer temporary states of exception. Through its rich engagement with how laws that underlie, structure and enable resilient urban life are made, implemented and lived within an array of cities over the world, this volume constitutes an integral theoretical building block of urban adaptation and resilience.' -- Marius Pieterse, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Author InformationEdited by Angela van der Berg, Acting Director, Global Environmental Law Centre and Senior Lecturer, University of Western Cape, South Africa and Jonathan Verschuuren, Professor of International and European Environmental Law, Tilburg University, the Netherlands Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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