Cities demanding the earth : a new understanding of the climate emergency / Peter J. Taylor, Geoff O'Brien and Phil O'Keefe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Peter J. (Peter James), 1944- author.

O'Brien, Geoff, author.

O'Keefe, Phil, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

Urban policy--Environmental aspects.

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 151 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This urgent book brings our cities to the fore in understanding the human input into climate change. The demands we are making on nature by living in cities has reached a crisis point and unless we make significant changes to address it, the prognosis is terminal consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption and pose the challenge of urban stewardship to tackle the crisis. Their new way of thinking re-orients possibilities for environmental policy and calls for us to reinvent our cities as spaces for activism.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of Tables and Figures

About the Authors

Preface

Declarations: Root and Branch Unthinking

Alternate: Jane Jacobs’ Legacy

Inside Out: Fourteen Antitheses Authenticating Cities

Reset: Anthropogenic Climate Change Is Urban, not Modern

Action: Can We Stop Terminal Consumption?

References

Appendix: Primer on Climate Change Policy

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Mar 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781529210507

152921050X

9781529210514

1529210518

9781529210491

1529210496

OCLC:

1147257091