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Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience - Responding to Climate Change and the Relevance of the Built Environment (Hardcover)
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Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience - Responding to Climate Change and the Relevance of the Built Environment (Hardcover)
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The IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report (2014) has highlighted the
importance of urban areas in mitigating emissions of greenhouse
gases. Urban centres are also subject to the impacts of climate
change. Hence governance for urban sustainability and resilience
needs to be developed to deal with the challenge of climate change
in the future and its impacts on urban locations. This book is a
rich repository of knowledge and information on this subject of
growing relevance.' - Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Professor,
Yale Climate and Energy Institute, Yale School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies, US'This book provides a timely overview of
the range of government intervention models in the policy domain of
urban sustainability. Combining the two closely related, but
usually separated, policy objectives of Sustainability and
Resilience has particular utility. Having good ideas about how to
save the planet are necessary but if we can't use governance tools
to deliver them, we have no hope.' - Peter Newman, Curtin
University, Australia Cities, and the built environment more
broadly, are key in the global response to climate change. This
groundbreaking book seeks to understand what governance tools are
best suited for achieving cities that are less harmful to the
natural environment, are less dependent on finite resources, and
can better withstand human-made hazards and climate risks. In
mapping, describing and evaluating nearly 70 traditional and highly
innovative governance tools from Asia, Australia, Europe and North
America, Jeroen van der Heijden uncovers the five most eminent
contemporary trends in governance for urban sustainability and
resilience. He also develops a series of 12 design principles that
will help to develop better governance tools for improving the
sustainability and resilience of today's cities and those of the
future. The book is unique in drawing lessons from the theoretical
literature on environmental and hazard governance into a broad
empirical study. The book will be of great interest to scholars in
the field of urban governance, urban planning, sustainable
development and resilience, environmental and hazard governance,
and climate risk adaptation and mitigation. It will also appeal to
students, policymakers and organizations involved with
environmental policy and governance. Contents: 1. Where We are
Today 2. Direct Regulatory Interventions 3. Collaborative
Governance 4. Voluntary Programmes and Market-driven Governance 5.
Trends in and Design Principles for Governance for Urban
Sustainability and Resilience 6. Conclusion: In Search of an Answer
to the Key-Question, Appendix - Methods Index
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