The urban climate challenge : rethinking the role of cities in the global climate regime /: rethinking the role of cities in the global climate regime. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Craig Johnson, Noah Toly, Heike Schroeder.
• Editors: Johnson, Craig (Craig Anthony); Toly, Noah; Schroeder, Heike
• 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 307.76; Urban ecology (Sociology); Climatic changes; Environmental policy; Urban policy -- Environmental aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban; Climatic changes; Environmental policy; Urban ecology (Sociology); Urban policy -- Environmental aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317680062; 1317680065; 9781315772981; 1315772981; 1138776882; 9781138776883; 9781317680055; 1317680057
• Related ISBNs: 9781138776883
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed Feb. 26, 2015).
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