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- Stimulates relationships between levels of government, government and citizens, and among governments, the private sector and civil society actors
- Builds on nearly two decades, identifying the emergence of new urban actors, spaces and political dynamics in response to climate change issues
- Based on a very global set of empirical cases
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Intergovernmental Governance Innovations
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Citizen Engagement Innovations
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City Networks Innovations
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Drivers and Obstacles of Multi-Level Innovations
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About this book
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 a
nd 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.”
Reviews
Debra Roberts, Co-Chair, Working Group II, IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6) and Acting Head, Sustainable and Resilient City Initiatives, Durban, South Africa
“Never has sub-national climate action been more important. As federal or national commitment wanes in some parts of the world, cities stand out as a critical opportunity to increase the ambition of the global climate change response. Climate Change in Cities offers a refreshingly frank view of how complex cities and city processes really are. Assessing the practical and lived experiences of cities around the world, this volume points to the real and often still unharnessed climate innovation in cities, and analyses the wicked mix of challenges and opportunities they continue to experience in the face of rising expectations. Cities emerge, not as a silver bullet or stand-alone solution, but as an increasingly critical element in a much bigger, multileveled governance climate change jigsaw puzzle.”
Christopher Gore, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University, Canada
“This book is a welcome contribution to studies of cities and climate change. Not only does in engage 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. A global, comparative perspective is rare, necessary and welcome!”
Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography, Durham University, United Kingdom
“Cities hold a great deal of promise in our response to climate change. This timely collection explores just how this promise can be realised in cities across the world - from California to Canada, India to Indonesia. Exploring how innovative responses to climate change are taking place under conditions of multi-level governance, it provides new insights in
to how cities can put their rhetoric into action on the ground.”
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Sara Hughes
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School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, The Netherlands
Eric K. Chu
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School of Public Service, Boise State University, Boise, USA
Susan G. Mason
About the editors
Eric K. Chu is a Lecturer in Planning and Human Geography in the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham in the UK. His research is on the politics of climate change governance in cities, with particular emphasis on the globally comparative perspectives of socio-spatial change, development planning, policy change, and local environmental justice.
Susan G. Mason is Emeritus Faculty in the School of Public Service at Boise State University. She was previously Director of Strategic Initiatives for the School of Public Service and Professor and Founding Director of the Department and Master and Certificate programs in Community and Regional Planning at Boise State University. Her research focuses on regional governance, urban and community development, and sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Change in Cities
Book Subtitle: Innovations in Multi-Level Governance
Editors: Sara Hughes, Eric K. Chu, Susan G. Mason
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65003-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65002-9Published: 12 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87922-2Published: 15 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65003-6Published: 27 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 378
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Climate Change Management and Policy, Environmental Politics