ABSTRACT

Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives, The Urban Climate Challenge provides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime. Bringing together experts working in the fields of global environmental governance, urban sustainability and climate change, this volume explores the ways in which cities, transnational urban networks and global policy institutions are repositioning themselves in relation to this changing global policy environment.

Focusing on both Northern and Southern experience across the globe, three questions that have strong bearing on the ways in which we understand and assess the changing relationship between cities and global climate system are examined.

The Urban Climate Challenge will be of interest to scholars of urban climate policy, global environmental governance and climate change. It will be of interest to readers more generally interested in the ways in which cities are now addressing the inter-related challenges of sustainable urban growth and global climate change.

Chapter 9 and Chapter 11 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs  under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138776883_oachapter11.pdf

Chapter 9 and Chapter 11 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs  under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138776883_oachapter9.pdf

 

part I|59 pages

Governing the Urban Climate Challenge

chapter 1|21 pages

Introduction

Urban Resilience, Low Carbon Governance and the Global Climate Regime 1

chapter 3|23 pages

Closed Cycles—Open City

part II|37 pages

Going Global?

chapter 4|19 pages

If Cities Are the Solution, What Are the Problems?

The Promise and Perils of Urban Climate Leadership

chapter 5|16 pages

Multinational Companies and Urban Climate Governance

Market Making or Successful Policy Innovation?

part III|79 pages

Domestic Policy Responses

part IV|45 pages

Regional Policy Perspectives

part V|19 pages

Governing the Urban Climate Challenge

chapter 12|17 pages

Conclusion

Governing the Urban Climate Challenge