McKendry Greening Post-Industrial Cities

Growth, Equity, and Environmental Governance
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-68131-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 270 Seiten

Reihe: Cities and Global Governance

Cities are increasingly incorporating questions of environmental justice and social equity into their sustainability plans. But current literature does not adequately provide a rich comparative understanding of how the goals of environmental protection, social equity, and urban economic development are playing out in practice.

Corina McKendry’s book provides a comparative understanding of how the multilevel nature of social inequity and environmental governance intersect in urban areas, how the tensions between environmental protection, economic growth, and social justice are negotiated by city leaders, and the implications this has for the potential and limitations of cities as key players in moving global society towards "just sustainability." In order to understand the relationship between city environmentalism and the globalized economy, the book conducts a historical analysis of the extent to which the rise of cities as important players in furthering environmentalism paralleled and was enabled by the emergence of neoliberal globalization. McKendry then uses a comparative analysis of three cities (Chicago, USA; Birmingham, UK; and Melbourne, AUS) that have strived to establish themselves as key players in international environmental governance to help illuminate how global processes of economic and environmental change impact local areas and, in turn, are shaped by the choices local actors make in the face of these processes. Throughout the work, McKendry also investigates the factors that lead cities to incorporate issues of social and environmental justice into their sustainability initiatives and the limits and promises of such efforts.

This book offers a comparative understanding of how the goals of environmental protection, social equity, and urban economic development are playing out in practice. McKendry’s findings will interest scholars of urban environmentalism, global environmental governance, and comparative urban politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McKendry, Corina

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction – Post-industrial cities and the local politics of global environmental governance. 2. Dirty cities and the rise of national environmental regulation. 3. Green growth and the neoliberal city. 4. Environmental amenities and the competition for the creative class. 5. Greening, work, and industry in the ‘post-industrial’ city. 6. Climate justice or cost-benefit calculations? The challenge of urban climate governance. 7. The grey areas of city greening: States, equity, and environmental governance.

Über Autor(innen)

Corina McKendry is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colorado College.