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Title The urban climate challenge : rethinking the role of cities in the global climate regime / edited by Craig Johnson, Noah Toly, Heike Schroeder
Published New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Cities and global governance ; 4
Cities and global governance ; 4.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; PART I Governing the Urban Climate Challenge: Understanding the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime; 1 Introduction: Urban Resilience, Low Carbon Governance and the Global Climate Regime; 2 Bringing Cities into the Global Climate Framework; 3 Closed Cycles-Open City; PART II Going Global? The Changing Face of Urban Climate Governance; 4 If Cities Are the Solution, What Are the Problems? The Promise and Perils of Urban Climate Leadership
5 Multinational Companies and Urban Climate Governance: Market Making or Successful Policy Innovation?PART III Domestic Policy Responses: Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation into Urban Climate Governance; 6 Combining Local and Transnational Action in the Adoption and Implementation of Climate Policies in the City of São Paulo; 7 Urban Climate Governance through a Sustainability Lens: Exploring the Integration of Adaptation and Mitigation in Four British Columbian Cities; 8 Climate Change Adaptation in Mumbai, India
9 Relational Agency and the Local Governance of Climate Change: International Trends and an American ExemplarPART IV Regional Policy Perspectives: Comparing Policies and Outcomes across Regional Policy Regimes; 10 Multilevel Governance and Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Responses in Latin American Cities; 11 Climate Change Adaptation and African Cities: Understanding the Impact of Government and Governance on Future Action; PART V Governing the Urban Climate Challenge: New Directions in Theory, Policy and Research; 12 Conclusion: Governing the Urban Climate Challenge
Summary 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 S
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed February 26, 2015)
Subject Urban ecology (Sociology)
Climatic changes
Environmental policy.
Urban policy -- Environmental aspects
Urban ecology (Biology)
urban environments.
climate change.
environmental policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Urban ecology (Biology)
Climatic changes.
Environmental policy.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban policy -- Environmental aspects.
Form Electronic book
Author Johnson, Craig (Craig Anthony), editor.
Toly, Noah, editor.
Schroeder, Heike, editor.
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