Overview
- Unravels the potential of climate co-benefits for India towards the achievement of sustainable development goals
- Aligns with contemporary research priorities in the field of urban studies
- Expands both the normative and empirical understanding of urban development and climate change
Part of the book series: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia (EUCS)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction to the Concept and Theory of Co-benefits
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Contextualizing Co-benefit Issues: Across Spatial Scales and Sectors
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Co-benefits in Energy, Transport, Buildings, Waste and Biodiversity
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Promoting Co-benefits in the Urban Context: Innovations and Reforms
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Keywords
- inclusive urban development
- climate change and urban growth
- degradation of local environments
- pollution and cities
- water quality in urban areas
- urban co-benefits
- sustainable development issues
- Smart Cities Mission
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Paris Agreement
- New Urban Agenda
- co-benefit issues
- sustainable urban initiatives
- integrated landuse
- urban planning and climate
- development planning
- urban geography and urbanism
- Climate change management
About this book
This volume presents a novel framework to understand urban climate co-benefits in India, that is, tackling climate change and achieving sustainable development goals in cities. It utilizes methods and tools from several assessment frameworks to scientifically evaluate sector co-benefits for informed decision making. The co-benefits approach can lead to significant improvements in the way societies use environmental resources and distribute their outputs. The volume discusses four main themes: (1) Concepts and theories on cities and climate co-benefits; (2) Contextualizing co-benefit issues across spatial scales and sectors; (3) Sectoral analyses of co-benefits in energy, transport, buildings, waste, and biodiversity, and (4) Innovations and reforms needed to promote co-benefits in cities. The discussions are based on empirical research conducted in Indian cities and aligned with the international discourse on the 2030 UN Development Agenda and New Urban Agenda created at the UN-Habitat III in 2016. The analyses and recommendations in this volume are of considerable interest to policy experts, scholars and researchers of  urban and regional studies, geography, public policy, international development/law, economics, development planning, environmental planning, climate change, energy studies, and so on. Â
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sethi is a recipient of Government of India’s Ministry of Human Resource Development Scholarship from 2005-07 and also offered Liverpool University Scholarship in 2005. He has authored numerous publications in peer-reviewed books and journals and regularly disseminates research through national and international conferences. His other title: Climate Change and Cities – A spatial perspective of carbon footprint and beyond (Routledge), is an empirical research into economic development, urbanization and GHG patterns of over 200 countries based on his doctoral thesis.
Dr. Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is a faculty member at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EAESP and FGV/EBAPE) and also teaches at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPEAD-UFRJ), Fudan University (Shanghai) and Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar (UASB) in Quito, Ecuador. He is associated researcher at the United Nations University (UNU-IIGH) in Kuala Lumpur and the MIT Joint Program for Science and Policy for Global Change (USA). His research examines patterns of governance, institution building and policy implementation at different levels, looking at how global and national institutions are interlinked to local governance and action, and vice-versa. He held positions of Senior Research Fellow and Assistant Director of UNU-IAS in Japan between 2009 and 2015 where he coordinated the Sustainable Urban Futures research program. In 2015-2016, he was MIT-UTM Visiting Scholar in Malaysia and Cambridge, USA. Previously, he worked as faculty member at the University College London (UK) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). He has also be an instructor, consultant and researcher for several organizations such as different United Nations agencies, the OECD, the World Bank Institute, sub-national and national governments, and various NGOs and small and large firms in the private sector. He has published ten books and a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Public Administration and Development (PAD, Wiley-Blackwell) and member of several editorial boards such as the Brazilian Review of Contemporanean Administration (RAC), Asian Journal of Political Science and Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Administration (Taylor and Francis). Jose holds a Ph.D. in Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mainstreaming Climate Co-Benefits in Indian Cities
Book Subtitle: Post-Habitat III Innovations and Reforms
Editors: Mahendra Sethi, Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira
Series Title: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5816-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5815-8Published: 15 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5499-1Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5816-5Published: 06 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2367-0045
Series E-ISSN: 2367-0053
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 373
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Climate Change Management and Policy