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Global Sustainable Cities - City Governments and Our Environmental Future (Paperback)
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Global Sustainable Cities - City Governments and Our Environmental Future (Paperback)
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Perspectives from worldwide experts on how major cities across the
globe are responding to the major environmental threats of our
time, including global climate change Over half of the world's
population now lives in cities, and this share is expected to
increase in the coming decades. With growing urbanization, cities
and their residents face substantial environmental challenges such
as higher temperatures, droughts, wildfires, and increased
flooding. In response to these pressing challenges, some cities
have begun to develop local environmental regulations that
supplement national and environmental laws. In so doing, cities
have stepped into a role that has been historically dominated by
higher levels of government. Global Sustainable Cities takes stock
of the policies that have been implemented by cities around the
world in recent years in several key areas: water, air pollution,
greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation. It examines the
advantages-and potential drawbacks-of allowing cities to assume a
significant role in environmental regulation, given the legal and
political constraints in which cities operate. The contributors
present a series of case studies of the actions that seven leading
cities-Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Berlin, Delhi, London, New York, and
Shanghai-are taking to improve their environments and adapt to
climate change. The first volume of its kind, Global Sustainable
Cities is a critical comparative assessment of the actions that
major cities in the global North and South are taking to advance
sustainability.
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