Buch, Englisch, 378 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 672 g
Reihe: The Urban Book Series
Innovations in Multi-Level Governance
Buch, Englisch, 378 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 672 g
Reihe: The Urban Book Series
ISBN: 978-3-319-87922-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Cities - both as political and material entities - are increasingly playing a critical role in shaping the trajectory and impacts of climate change action. However, their policy, planning, and governance responses to climate change are fraught with tension and contradictions. While on one hand local actors play a central role in designing institutions, infrastructures, and behaviors that drive decarbonization and adaptation to changing climatic conditions, their options and incentives are inextricably enmeshed within broader political and economic processes.
Resolving these tensions and contradictions is likely to require innovative and multi-level approaches to governing climate change in the city: new interactions, new political actors, new ways of coordinating and mobilizing resources, and new frameworks and technical capacities for decision making. We focus explicitly on those innovations that produce new relationships between levels of government, between government and citizens, and among governments, the private sector, and transnational and civil society actors. A more comprehensive understanding is needed of the innovative approaches being used to navigate the complex networks and relationships that constitute contemporary multi-level urban climate change governance.
Debra Roberts, Co-Chair, Working Group II, IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6) and Acting Head, Sustainable and Resilient City Initiatives, Durban, South Africa
“Climate Change in Cities offers a refreshingly frank view of how complex cities and city processes really are.”
Christopher Gore, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Canada
“This book is a rare and welcome contribution engaging critically with questions about cities as central actors in multilevel climate governance but it does so recognizing that there are lessons from cities in both the Global North and South.”
Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography, Durham University, United Kingdom
“This timely collection provides new insights into how cities can put their rhetoric into action on the ground and explores just how this promise can be realised in cities across the world - from California to Canada, India to Indonesia.”
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
- Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
- Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
Weitere Infos & Material
Part 1. Theorizing MLG Innovations in Urban Climate Change Governance.- Part 2. Intergovernmental Governance Innovations.- Part 3. Citizen Engagement Innovations.- Part 4. Public-Private-Transnational Innovations.- Part 5. Drivers and Obstacles of MLG Innovations.- Conclusive chapter. Themes and ways forward.