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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 bo

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Author

Harriet A. Bulkeley & Vanesa Castán Broto & Gareth A. S. Edwards

Publisher

Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781322211954

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Sociology