As a result of global dynamics - the increasing interconnection of people and places - innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet. This book is a timely study of the importance of these social transformations in our increasingly global and urban world.
As a result of global dynamics - the increasing interconnection of people and places - innovations in global environmental governance haved altered th...
Cities have become increasingly important to global politics, but have largely occupied a peripheral place in the academic study of International Relations (IR). This is a notable oversight for the discipline, although one which may be explained by IR's traditional state centrism, the subjugation of the city to the demands of the territorial state in the modern period, and a lack of conceptual and analytical frameworks that can allow scholars to include the impact of cities within their work.
Presenting case-specific scholarship from leading experts in the field, each...
Cities have become increasingly important to global politics, but have largely occupied a peripheral place in the academic study of International R...
Cities have led the way to combat climate change by planning and implementing climate mitigation and adaptation policies. These local efforts go beyond national boundaries. Cities are forming transnational networks to enhance their understandings and practices for climate policies. In contrast to national governments that have numerous obstacles to cope with global climate change in the international and national level, cities have become significant international actors in the field of international relations and environmental governance. Global Cities and Climate Change examines the...
Cities have led the way to combat climate change by planning and implementing climate mitigation and adaptation policies. These local efforts go beyon...
Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives, The Urban Climate Challengeprovides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime. Bringing together experts working in the fields of global environmental governance, urban sustainability and climate change, this volume explores the ways in which cities, transnational urban networks and global policy institutions are repositioning themselves in relation to this changing global policy environment.
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Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives, The Urban Climate Challengeprovides a hands-on perspective about t...
City environmental initiatives have been heralded for their contributions to global environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement and inequality. Bringing these two disparate analyses into conversation, this book offers a comparative understanding of how the multilevel nature of environmental governance and social inequity are playing out in practice in three major cities of the global North (Chicago, USA; Birmingham, UK; and Vancouver, Canada). McKendry argues that these cities' greening efforts have been closely connected to broader processes of post-industrial...
City environmental initiatives have been heralded for their contributions to global environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displaceme...
Global cities all over the world are taking on new roles as they increasingly participate directly and independently in international affairs and global politics. So far, surprisingly few studies have analyzed the role of the Global City beyond its already well explicated role in the globalized economy. How is it that local governments of Global Cities claim international political authority and develop what appears to be their own independent foreign and security policies despite the fact that such policy areas have traditionally been considered to be the core function of nation-states...
Global cities all over the world are taking on new roles as they increasingly participate directly and independently in international affairs and g...
