Urban areas and global climate change / edited by William G. Holt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holt, William G.

Series:

Research in urban sociology ; v. 12.

Research in urban sociology, 1047-0042 ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban ecology (Sociology).

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (375 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Examining urban environmental issues at the macro, municipal level down to the micro community and individual level, this volume features cities and metropolitan regions across the global north and south with case studies from the United States, Canada, Eastern and Western Europe to India, Central America, South America and Africa. Contributions on the global north examine: the role of governing processes in sustainable cities; local growth machines and their carbon consequences; tackling climate change adaptation through community participation; climate protection and the participation and engagement of citizens; the importance of networking; and assessing the success of the environmental justice within emissions trading schemes. Case studies on the global south look at such topics as: how resource-constraints shape climate adaptation; the emergence of low-carbon development; urban vulnerability and adaptation to the health impacts of air pollution and climate extremes; global environmental changes and impacts on fishing activities; environmental justice and the social construction of space in urban poor communities; and the inverse connection between gender and climate change.

Contents:

ch. 1. Institutional and social capacities in lead cities in Europe and the United States : success factors for urban sustainability? / Corinna Altenburg

ch. 2. Growth machines and carbon emissions : a county-level analysis of how U.S. place-making contributes to global climate change / Matthew Thomas Clement, James R. Elliott

ch. 3. Tackling climate change adaptation at the local level through community participation / Geneviève Cloutier, Florent Joerin

ch. 4. Climate protection and civil society : does effective local climate policy need the participation and engagement of citizens? : a comparison between the cities of Potsdam and Muenster / Mirjam Neebe, Fritz Reusswig

ch. 5. Milan's answer to the climate change problem / Ilaria Beretta

ch. 6. Win, lose, or draw? : assessing the success of the environmental justice movement in emissions trading schemes / Krystal Tribbett

ch. 7. Climate adaptation in the face of resource constraints : lessons from a coastal South Asian mega-city / Madhu C. Dutta-Koehler

ch. 8. Adapting to what? : climate change impacts on Indian megacities and the local Indian climate change discourse / Fritz Reusswig, Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf

ch. 9. Environmental state in transformation : the emergence of low-carbon development in urban China / Yifei Li

ch. 10. Urban vulnerability and adaptation to the health impacts of air pollution and climate extremes in Latin American cities / Patricia Romero-Lankao ... [et al.]

ch. 11. Cities in the flood : vulnerability and disaster risk management : evidence from Ibadan, Nigeria / Andrew Onwuemele

ch. 12. Global environmental changes and impacts on fishing activities in the northern coast of São Paulo, Brazil / Sônia Regina da Cal Seixas ... [et al.]

ch. 13. Climate change and the north coast of Jakarta : environmental justice and the social construction of space in urban poor communities / Rita Padawangi

ch. 14. The gender dimensions of climatic impacts in urban areas : evidence and lessons from Kampala City, Uganda / Buyana Kareem.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781283635004

1283635003

9781781900376

178190037X

OCLC:

814520939