The Economy of Green Cities: A World Compendium on the Green Urban Economy

ISBN-13: 9789400719682 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 450 str.

Konrad Otto-Zimmermann; Richard Simpson; Monika Zimmermann

Opis

This book brings together thoughts, approaches, facts and arguments for translating the debate on green economy at the local level. It offers insights in reducing future costs and ecological scarcities.

Spis treści

PART I: Agenda Setting for the Urban Future with a Green Urban Economy        

 

1. Introduction: Agenda Setting for the Urban Future with a Green Urban Economy

Monika Zimmermann and Richard Simpson     

                       

PART II: Setting a Green Economy Agenda for Cities

           

2. Introduction: Setting a Green Economy Agenda for Cities

Richard Simpson    

 

3. New Urban Spaces: The Emergence of Green Economies

Kenneth Odero       

 

4. Environmental Discourse and Economic Growth in the Greening of Post-Industrial Cities

Corina Mckendry    

 

5. Sustainable Urban Transformation and the Green Urban Economy

Kes Mccormick, Stefan Anderberg and Lana Neij

   

6. Green Cities: Benefits of Urban Sustainability

Essam Hassan Mohamed Ahmed           

 

7. Working in Green Cities: Improving the Urban Environment While Creating Jobs and Enhancing Working Conditions

Edmundo Werna    

 

8. Sustainable Development for Cities and Citizens: Green Housing, Employment and Transport

Asif Kabani and Maliha Kabani   

 

9. Cities and the Green Economy

Philipp Rode

 

10. Green Cities Into Practice

Vito Albino and Rosa Maria Dangelico  

 

11. Emerging-Market Cities Could Set a New Standard for Sustainable Development

Jonathan Woetzel, Shannon Bouton, Molly Lindsay  

                       

PART III: Joining Forces to Accelerate Action   

 

12. Introduction: Joining Forces to Accelerate Action

Phoebe Stirling       

 

13. Accelerating Green Urban Growth

Bernd Hendriksen and Eric Copius Peereboom          

 

14. Linking Green City Politics with Green Business

Ulrich Mans and Sara Meerow     

 

15. Policy Instruments for Promoting a Green Urban Economy: The Changing Role of the State

Golam Rasul

 

16. Local Sustainability: Driving Green Urban Economies Through Public Engagement

Rosalie Callway      

 

17. We Know Enough: Achieving Action Through the Convergence of Sustainable Community Development and the Social Economy

Sean Connelly, Sean Markey, and Mark Roseland     

 

18. Seven Conditions for Effective Green Governance

Rula Taher Qalyoubi          

                       

PART IV: Strategies and Approaches for Greening Urban Economies        

 

19. Introduction: Strategies and Approaches for Greening Urban Economies

Shay Kelleher         

 

20. The Economics of Low Carbon Cities: Approaches to a City-Scale Mini-Stern Review

Andy Gouldson, Niall Kerr, Corrado Topi, Ellie Dawkins, Johan Kuylenstierna and Richard Pearce   

 

21. City Development Strategies and the Transition Towards a Green Urban Economy

Le-Yin Zhang          

 

22. Low Carbon Enterprise Zones: Towards a Fossil Fuel Free City Economy

Philip Monaghan    

 

23. Green Clusters and the Entrepreneurial Local Government: Portland’s Economic Development Strategy

Art Von Lehe and Shay Kelleher 

 

24. Green Cities Require Green Housing: Advancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Housing and Slum Upgrading in Cities in Developing Countries

Matthew French and Christophe Lalande         

 

25. EcoMobility and its Benefits in an Urban Context

Santhosh Kodukula           

 

26. Assessing the Cost of Groundwater Degradation in the Urbanizing Desert Area of Wadi El Natrun

Caroline King and Boshra Salem

 

27. Constructed Wetlands for the Treatment of Domestic Grey Water: An Instrument of the Green Economy to Realize the Millennium Development Goals

Gopalsamy Poyyamoli, Golda Edwin and Nandhivarman Muthu     

 

28. Decentralized Composting in Asian Cities: Lessons Learned and Future Potential in Meeting the Green Urban Economy

Dickella Premakumara

 

29. Biodiversity and Culture, Two Key Ingredients for a Truly Green Urban Economy:  Learning From Agriculture and Forestry Policies in Kanazawa City, Japan

Raquel Moreno-Peñaranda          

 

30. An Economic Assessment of the Deforestation of Ghana’s Garden City of West Africa

Jonathan Quartey   

 

31. Financing a Green Urban Economy: The Potential of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)

Maike Sippel and Axel Michaelowa        

                       

PART V: Experiences and Examples from City Governments           

 

32. Introduction: Experiences and Examples from City Governments

Steven Bland           

 

33. Synergies Between Environment and Economy Within a City Administration - Experiences Made by the City of Hannover, Germany

Hans Mönninghoff 

 

34. Auckland Council: Creating a Transformational Shift Towards a Sustainable Eco-Economy

Paul Chambers and Andrew Walters     

 

35. Sustainable Urban Development Policy in the Region of Flanders

Jan De Mulder         

 

36. Greening the Local Economy Through Municipal Sustainable Procurement Policies: Implementation Challenges and Successes in Western Canada

Andrew Kemp and Amelia Clarke           

 

37. City of Raleigh Office of Sustainability: Green Building Training Program

Lynn Graham, Emily Steele, Anna Leonard, Jen Baker, and Julian Prosser          

 

38. Changing to a Sustainable Socio-Economic System: A Challenge for Kyoto as a Historic City

Makoto Ueda           

 

Index

O autorze

Monika Zimmermann, Abitur 1969 in Bremen, Studium der Geschichte, Kunstgeschichte und Romanistik in Göttingen und Genf, Promotion 1976 in Hamburg, Redaktionsvolontariat beim "Göttinger Tageblatt", anschließend dort verantwortlich für das Feuilleton, danach zehn Jahre Feuilleton-Redakteurin der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung, ab 1988 FAZ-Korrespondentin in der DDR mit Wohnsitz in Ost-Berlin, 1990 1994 Chefredakteurin der zur FAZ-Gruppe gehörenden überregionalen Tageszeitung NEUE ZEIT. 1994 - 2005 Chefredakteurin bei verschiedenen Zeitungen in verschiedenen Bundesländern. Seit 2006 Regierungssprecherin in Sachsen-Anhalt.

Blurb

Green Economy is a key theme of the June 2012 Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development. The inclusive Green Urban Economy approach embodies a challenge to local government leaders and city practitioners to apply existing tools and methods in new ways to develop innovative approaches by engaging economic-environmental considerations and stakeholders in a much more active fashion.

 

This volume bridges the gap between the global promotion of the Green Economy and the manifestation of this new development strategy at the urban level. Green cities are an imperative solution, not only in meeting global environmental challenges but also in helping to ensure socio-economic prosperity at the local level.

 

Environmentalists must learn to understand the language and dynamics of the economy, and to combine important economic interests (such as cost savings) with ecological interests (such as saving of resources). Business and economic leaders must also understand and accommodate ecological interests to advance social improvement and sustainable development.

 

The editors compiled contributions of varying perspectives and practical experiences from the emerging fields of environmental economics, urban development and green cities, along with concrete examples from city governments.

 

The Economy of Green Cities documents and demonstrates the different layers of knowledge required for a Green Urban Economy. The compendium supports researchers, business thinkers and practitioners to explore, detail and discuss an urban Green Economy agenda.