Climate change is the most prominent of all global environmental issues and cities have an important role in addressing the challenges it poses. As key sites in the production and management of emissions of greenhouse gases, cities will be crucial for the implementation of international agreements and national policies on climate change. This book provides a critical analysis of the role of cities in addressing climate change and the prospects for urban sustainability. In the post-Rio era, international organisations and transnational networks have promoted the need for local action on global...

Climate change is one of the most challenging issues of our time. As key sites in the production and management of emissions of greenhouse gases, cities will be crucial for the implementation of international agreements and national policies on climate change. This book provides a critical analysis of the role of cities in addressing climate change and the prospects for urban sustainability.
In the post-Rio era, international organizations and transnational networks have promoted the need for local action on global environmental issues. Part I considers the implications of these...

'Cities and Climate Change' gives an in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of the role of cities in addressing climate change.

Despite a growing interest in critical social and political studies of climate change, the field remains fragmented and diffuse. This is the first volume to collect this body of scholarship, providing a key reference point in the growing debate about climate change across the social sciences. The book provides a new set of insights into the ways in which climate change is creating new forms of social order, and the ways in which they are structured through the workings of rationality, power and politics. Governing the Climate is invaluable for three main audiences: social science researchers...

Provides original critical insights into climate politics and new directions for society's response, for researchers, advanced students and policy makers.

This book develops new perspectives on the cultural politics of climate change and its implications for responding to this challenge.

Leading experts provide the first comprehensive account of transnational efforts to respond to climate change, for researchers, graduate students and policy makers.

The first volume on critical social and political studies of climate change for advanced students, researchers and policy makers.