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Author : Cindy Isenhour
Release : 2015
Genre : Sustainable urban development
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Book Rating : 610/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sustainability in the Global City by : Cindy Isenhour
Download or read book Sustainability in the Global City written by Cindy Isenhour. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cindy Isenhour
Release : 2016-04-28
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 720/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sustainability in the Global City by : Cindy Isenhour
Download or read book Sustainability in the Global City written by Cindy Isenhour. This book was released on 2016-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet, we know little about how the concept is implemented in daily life - particularly with regard to questions of social justice and equity. This volume provides a unique and vital contribution to ongoing conversations about urban sustainability by looking beyond the promises, propaganda, and policies associated with the concept in order to explore both its mythic meanings and the practical implications in a variety of everyday contexts. The authors present ethnographic studies from cities in eleven countries and six continents. Each chapter highlights the universalized assumptions underlying interpretations of sustainability while elucidating the diverse and contradictory ways in which people understand, incorporate, advocate for, and reject sustainability in the course of their daily lives.
Author : Taedong Lee
Release : 2014-08-21
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 599/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Global Cities and Climate Change by : Taedong Lee
Download or read book Global Cities and Climate Change written by Taedong Lee. This book was released on 2014-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities have led the way to combat climate change by planning and implementing climate mitigation and adaptation policies. These local efforts go beyond national boundaries. Cities are forming transnational networks to enhance their understandings and practices for climate policies. In contrast to national governments that have numerous obstacles to cope with global climate change in the international and national level, cities have become significant international actors in the field of international relations and environmental governance. Global Cities and Climate Change examines the translocal relations of cities that have made an international effort to collectively tackle climate change. Compared to state-centric terms, international or trans-national relations, trans-local relations look at policies, politics, and interactions of local governments in the globalized world. Using multi-methods such as multi-level analysis, comparative case studies, regression analysis and network analysis, Taedong Lee illustrates why some cities participated in transnational climate networks for cities; under what conditions cities internationally cooperate with other cities, with which cities; and which factors influence climate policy performance. An essential read to all those who wish to understand the driving factors for local governments’ engagement in global climate governance from a theoretical as well as practical point of view. Lee makes a valuable contribution to the fields of international relations, environmental policies, and urban studies.
Author : Imrie, Rob
Release : 2014-09-24
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 632/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sustainable London? by : Imrie, Rob
Download or read book Sustainable London? written by Imrie, Rob. This book was released on 2014-09-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is London responding to social and economic crises, and to the challenges of sustaining its population, economy and global status? Sustainable development discourse has come to permeate different policy fields, including transport, housing, property development and education. In this exciting book, authors highlight the uneven impacts and effects of these policies in London, including the creation of new social and economic inequalities. The contributors seek to move sustainable city debates and policies in London towards a progressive, socially just future that advances the public good. The book is essential reading for urban practitioners and policy makers, and students in social, urban and environmental geography, sociology and urban studies.
Author : Kenneth Gould
Release : 2016-07-15
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 801/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Green Gentrification by : Kenneth Gould
Download or read book Green Gentrification written by Kenneth Gould. This book was released on 2016-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban "greening" from an environmental justice and sustainable development perspective. Through a comparative examination of five cases of urban greening in Brooklyn, New York, it demonstrates that such initiatives, while positive for the environment, tend to increase inequality and thus undermine the social pillar of sustainable development. Although greening is ostensibly intended to improve environmental conditions in neighborhoods, it generates green gentrification that pushes out the working-class, and people of color, and attracts white, wealthier in-migrants. Simply put, urban greening "richens and whitens," remaking the city for the sustainability class. Without equity-oriented public policy intervention, urban greening is negatively redistributive in global cities. This book argues that environmental injustice outcomes are not inevitable. Early public policy interventions aimed at neighborhood stabilization can create more just sustainability outcomes. It highlights the negative social consequences of green growth coalition efforts to green the global city, and suggests policy choices to address them. The book applies the lessons learned from green gentrification in Brooklyn to urban greening initiatives globally. It offers comparison with other greening global cities. This is a timely and original book for all those studying environmental justice, urban planning, environmental sociology, and sustainable development as well as urban environmental activists, city planners and policy makers interested in issues of urban greening and gentrification.
