Bulkeley / Broto / Edwards An Urban Politics of Climate Change

Experimentation and the Governing of Socio-Technical Transitions
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-317-65010-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 282 Seiten

The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as ‘an urgent agenda’ (World Bank 2010). The contribution of cities to rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions coupled with concerns about the vulnerability of urban places and communities to the impacts of climate change have led to a relatively recent and rapidly proliferating interest amongst both academic and policy communities in how cities might be able to respond to mitigation and adaptation. Attention has focused on the potential for municipal authorities to develop policy and plans that can address these twin issues, and the challenges of capacity, resource and politics that have been encountered. While this literature has captured some of the essential means through which the urban response to climate change is being forged, is that it has failed to take account of the multiple sites and spaces of climate change response that are emerging in cities ‘off-plan’.

An Urban Politics of Climate Change provides the first account of urban responses to climate change that moves beyond the boundary of municipal institutions to critically examine the governing of climate change in the city as a matter of both public and private authority, and to engage with the ways in which this is bound up with the politics and practices of urban infrastructure. The book draws on cases from multiple cities in both developed and emerging economies to providing new insight into the potential and limitations of urban responses to climate change, as well as new conceptual direction for our understanding of the politics of environmental governance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bulkeley, Harriet A

Bulkeley, Harriet

Broto, Vanesa Castán

Broto, Vanesa

Edwards, Gareth A.S.

Edwards, Gareth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. 1. Climate governance and urban experiments. 2. Governing through experimentation: analysing the urban politics of climate change. Part II. 3. Towards zero carbon housing in Bangalore, India. 4. Social housing and climate change: a sustainable housing project in Monterrey, Mexico. 5. The ‘Coolest Block’ contest in Philadelphia, USA. 6. Financing climate change experiments across Cape Town’s housing infrastructure. 7. Realising the solar city in Berlin, Germany. 8. Solar hot water and housing systems in São Paulo, Brazil. 9. Climateers – pioneering a new response to climate change in Hong Kong? 10. Creating a low carbon zone in Brixton, London, UK. Part III. 11. Experimentation and the politics of justice in urban climate governance. 12. Urban transformation and urban politics

Über Autor(innen)

Harriet Bulkeley is Professor of Geography at the University of Durham. Her research interests are in the nature and politics of environmental governance, with a particular focus on climate change, energy and urban sustainability. She is author of Climate Change and the City (Routledge, Critical Introductions to the City 2012), and (with Peter Newell) of Governing Climate Change (Routledge 2010).

Vanesa Castán Broto is a Lecturer at the Development and Planning Unit of the Barlett Faculty of the Built Environment in University College London. She teaches at the post-graduate level in urban political ecology and sustainable development, urban development planning and urban resilience.

Gareth Edwards is a Lecturer in Geography and Development in the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia. His research interests centre on the ethics of environmental governance, with a focus on the political ecology of climate change and water.