书目名称 | Cities and Climate Change |
副标题 | Climate Policy, Econ |
编辑 | Zaheer Allam,David Jones,Meelan Thondoo |
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概述 | Explores why climate change responsiveness policies for cities have been slow to gain traction.Introduces the various dimensions from a cross-disciplinary perspective, and from regional, local and urb |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies |
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描述 | This book explores climate change responsiveness policies for cities and discusses why they have been slow to gain traction despite having been on the international agenda for the last 30 years. The contributing role of cities in accentuating the effects of climate change is increasingly demonstrated in the literature, underscoring the unsustainable models on which urban life has been made to thrive. As these issues become increasingly apparent, there are global calls to adopt more sustainable and equitable models, however doing so will mean the disruption of economies that have historically relied upon pollution-generating industries. In order to address these issues the authors examine them from a cross-disciplinary perspective, bringing in regional, local and urban standpoints to subsequently propose an alternative short-term economic model that could accelerate the adoption of climate change mitigation infrastructures and urban sustainability in urban areas. .This book will be of particular value to scholars and students alike in the field of urbanism, sustainability and resilience, as well as practitioners looking at avenues for economically incentivizing sustainable developme |
出版日期 | Book 2020 |
关键词 | Urban Resilience; Economic Resilience; Sustainability; Regional Decarbonisation; Climate Policy; Cities a |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40727-8 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-40727-8Series ISSN 2523-8124 Series E-ISSN 2523-8132 |
issn_series | 2523-8124 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |