Repowering Cities (eBook)

Governing Climate Change Mitigation in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto

Sara Hughes (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
224 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-4043-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The conceptualization and execution of Repowering Cities are terrific, and provides readers with a deep understanding of why, how, and to what effect cities have mobilized to mitigate the effects of climate change.â•Michael J. Rich, Emory University, coauthor of Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization

City governments are rapidly becoming society's problem solvers. As Sara Hughes shows, nowhere is this more evident than in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto, where the cities' governments are taking on the challenge of addressing climate change.

Repowering Cities focuses on the specific issue of reducing urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and develops a new framework for distinguishing analytically and empirically the policy agendas city governments develop for reducing GHG emissions, the governing strategies they use to implement these agendas, and the direct and catalytic means by which they contribute to climate change mitigation. Hughes uses her framework to assess the successes and failures experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto as those agenda-setting cities have addressed climate change. She then identifies strategies for moving from incremental to transformative change by pinpointing governing strategies able to mobilize the needed resources and actors, build participatory institutions, create capacity for climate-smart governance, and broaden coalitions for urban climate change policy.

Autor

Sara Hughes is Assistant Professor in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. She is co-editor of Climate Change and Cities. Follow her on X @sara_hughes_TO.

Inhalt

Introduction: The Shifting Ambitions and Positions of City Governments
1. Progress or Pipe Dream? Cities and Climate Change Mitigation
2. Evaluating Urban Governance: A Three-Part Framework
3. Made to Measure: Tracing Unique Climate Policy Agendas in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto
4. The Means Behind the Methods: Governing Strategies to Reduce Green house Gas Emissions
5. Are We There Yet? Identifying and Evaluating Urban Progress on Climate Change Mitigation
Conclusion: Prospects and Consequences of Repowering Cities
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2019
• Zusatzinfo: 5 charts
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: achieving city climate goals • addressing climate change • adoption of greenhouse gas reduction goals • best practices reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions • build participatory institutions • Carbon Footprint • case studies reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions • cities and climate change • Climate Change Mitigation • climate-smart governance • climatology • effective urban climate action • Environmental Policy • Environmental politics • Environmental Studies • global environmental politics • global warming & climate change • governance, urban studies, environmental policy, subnational policy • government policy • Government policy climate change • greenhouse gas reduction goals • how to reduce urban greenhouse gas emissions • how to reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions • Local Government Studies • policy agendas city governments • policy options reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions • Public Policy • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions best practices • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions case studies • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions city planning • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions development • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions for builders • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions for city planners • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions for planners • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions guide • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions how-to • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions in cities • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions initiatives • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions los angeles • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions new york city • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions policies • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions politics • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions toronto • reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions urban planning • sustainability • sustainability policies in cities • understanding reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions • Urban Affairs • urban climate action • urban climate action items • urban climate activism • urban climate best practices • urban climate case studies • urban climate change policy • urban climate policy • Urban Climatology • Urban Policy • urban politics • urban sustainability policies
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-4043-1 / 1501740431
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-4043-5 / 9781501740435