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This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's
environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It
looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio
Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a
difference. Consuming Cities examines this impact using case
studies from around the world including: the USA, Japan, Germany,
the UK, China, India, Sweden, Poland, Australia and Indonesia The
contributors all have direct experience of the urban environment
and urban policies in the countries on which they write and offer
an authoritative commentary which brings the urban 'consumption'
dimension of sustainable development into focus.
Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale
transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution,
is one of the most pressing problems facing society . This book
focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental
regulation: How are activities regulated in a fragmented world - a
world of nation states, regulators, domestic and international law
and political contests - and one in which a range of actors, such
as governments, corporations and NGOs act in order to influence
regulations in specific policy areas? How are complex and
trans-boundary environmental issues managed? What role does expert
knowledge play in regulating this kind of issues? What give rules
authority? In short, how do actors try to render an issue
governable? Drawing on regulation theory, discourse theory and
science and technology studies, and employing original research,
the authors analyse the regulation of four kinds of complex and
trans-boundary environmental issues: oil protection in the Baltic
Sea, mobile phones and radiation protection, climate change
adaptation and genetically modified crops. The outcomes include
insights for policymakers, regulators and researchers into how
dominant frames are constructed, legitimate actors are configured
and authority is established. This in turn exposes the conditions
for, and possibility of, developing regulation, making
authoritative rules and shaping relevant knowledge in order to
govern complex environmental risks.
This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact. It looks at these issues by examining the impact of the Rio Declaration and assesses the extent to which it has made a difference. Consuming Cities examines this impact using three categories of countries for examples: firstly four countries from the world's core economies - the USA, Japan, Germany and Britain; secondly the experience of the 'giant' states of China and India; finally, the contributors consider the case of smaller countries by including two pairs of countries from the North and the SOuth: Sweden and Poland, Australia and Indonesia where each pair includes one 'developed' and one 'developing' country. The contributors all have direct experience of the urban environment and urban policies in the countries on which they write and offer an authoritative commentry which serves to bring the urban 'consumption' dimension of ecologically sustainable development to sharper focus, to critically evaluate hthe success of the Rio Declaration and to consider the wider question of global governance for the ecological regulation of cities.
Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale
transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution,
is one of the most pressing problems facing society . This book
focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental
regulation: How are activities regulated in a fragmented world - a
world of nation states, regulators, domestic and international law
and political contests - and one in which a range of actors, such
as governments, corporations and NGOs act in order to influence
regulations in specific policy areas? How are complex and
trans-boundary environmental issues managed? What role does expert
knowledge play in regulating this kind of issues? What give rules
authority? In short, how do actors try to render an issue
governable? Drawing on regulation theory, discourse theory and
science and technology studies, and employing original research,
the authors analyse the regulation of four kinds of complex and
trans-boundary environmental issues: oil protection in the Baltic
Sea, mobile phones and radiation protection, climate change
adaptation and genetically modified crops. The outcomes include
insights for policymakers, regulators and researchers into how
dominant frames are constructed, legitimate actors are configured
and authority is established. This in turn exposes the conditions
for, and possibility of, developing regulation, making
authoritative rules and shaping relevant knowledge in order to
govern complex environmental risks.
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