This book examines how cities address environmental concerns, identifying key the strategies used and suggesting solutions for future action. It is invaluable reading for students, researchers, and policymakers in environmental sustainability, climate change, urban studies and planning, and public policy.
This book examines how cities address environmental concerns, identifying key the strategies used and suggesting solutions for future action. It is invaluable reading for students, researchers, and policymakers in environmental sustainability, climate change, urban studies and planning, and public policy.
William Solecki (Ph.D. Geography) has studied the interaction of urbanization and climate change for almost thirty years. He has served as an author on several Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments and is a co-founder of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN). He is a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword Debra Roberts Acknowledgments Part I. Framing Chapters: 1. Setting climate change within the narrative of urban environmental crises and transformation 2. Why do cities face environmental crises? 3. What about cities make them places for environmental problem solving? 4. Framing how urban systems change Part II. Application Case Chapters: 5. Natural resource supply and scarcity: securing urban drinking water 6. Environment degradation and quality: urban air quality 7. Public health: disease and epidemics 8. Environmental risk and hazards: acute and chronic events 9. Resource use efficiency and pathways to environmental sustainability: the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) 10. Mobility, Livability and Sustainability: Balancing economics, ecology, and equity Part III. Synthesis Chapters: 11. Urban environmental crises and policy transitions 12. Opportunities to advance environmental policy transitions and transformative climate action References Index.
Foreword Debra Roberts Acknowledgments Part I. Framing Chapters: 1. Setting climate change within the narrative of urban environmental crises and transformation 2. Why do cities face environmental crises? 3. What about cities make them places for environmental problem solving? 4. Framing how urban systems change Part II. Application Case Chapters: 5. Natural resource supply and scarcity: securing urban drinking water 6. Environment degradation and quality: urban air quality 7. Public health: disease and epidemics 8. Environmental risk and hazards: acute and chronic events 9. Resource use efficiency and pathways to environmental sustainability: the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle) 10. Mobility, Livability and Sustainability: Balancing economics, ecology, and equity Part III. Synthesis Chapters: 11. Urban environmental crises and policy transitions 12. Opportunities to advance environmental policy transitions and transformative climate action References Index.
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