The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of
energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international
policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as an
urgent agenda (World Bank 2010). The contribution of cities to
rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions coupled with concerns
about the vulnerability of urban places and communities to the
impacts of climate change have led to a relatively recent and
rapidly proliferating interest amongst both academic and policy
communities in how cities might be able to respond to mitigation
and adaptation. Attention has focused on the potential for
municipal authorities to develop policy and plans that can address
these twin issues, and the challenges of capacity, resource and
politics that have been encountered. While this literature has
captured some of the essential means through which the urban
response to climate change is being forged, is that it has failed
to take account of the multiple sites and spaces of climate change
response that are emerging in cities off-plan . "
An Urban Politics of Climate Change" provides the first account
of urban responses to climate change that moves beyond the boundary
of municipal institutions to critically examine the governing of
climate change in the city as a matter of both public and private
authority, and to engage with the ways in which this is bound up
with the politics and practices of urban infrastructure. The book
draws on cases from multiple cities in both developed and emerging
economies to providing new insight into the potential and
limitations of urban responses to climate change, as well as new
conceptual direction for our understanding of the politics of
environmental governance. "
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