Repowering Cities

Author : Sara Hughes
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781501740428

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Repowering Cities by Sara Hughes Pdf

City governments are rapidly becoming society's problem solvers. As Sara Hughes shows, nowhere is this more evident than in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto, where the cities' governments are taking on the challenge of addressing climate change. Repowering Cities focuses on the specific issue of reducing urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and develops a new framework for distinguishing analytically and empirically the policy agendas city governments develop for reducing GHG emissions, the governing strategies they use to implement these agendas, and the direct and catalytic means by which they contribute to climate change mitigation. Hughes uses her framework to assess the successes and failures experienced in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto as those agenda-setting cities have addressed climate change. She then identifies strategies for moving from incremental to transformative change by pinpointing governing strategies able to mobilize the needed resources and actors, build participatory institutions, create capacity for climate-smart governance, and broaden coalitions for urban climate change policy.

Author : Carmen Sirianni
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780700629985

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Sustainable Cities in American Democracy by Carmen Sirianni Pdf

We face two global threats: the climate crisis and a crisis of democracy. Located at the crux of these crises, sustainable cities build on the foundations and resources of democracy to make our increasingly urban world more resilient and just. Sustainable Cities in American Democracy focuses on this effort as it emerged and developed over the past decades in the institutional field of sustainable cities—a vital response to environmental degradation and climate change that is shaped by civic and democratic action. Carmen Sirianni shows how various kinds of civic associations and grassroots mobilizing figure in this story, especially as they began to explicitly link conservation to the future of our democracy and then develop sustainable cities as a democratic project. These organizations are national, local, or multitiered, from the League of Women Voters to the Natural Resources Defense Council to bicycle and watershed associations. Some challenge city government agencies contentiously, while others seek collaboration; many do both at some point. Sirianni uses a range of analytic approaches—from scholarly disciplines, policy design, urban governance, social movements, democratic theory, public administration, and planning—to understand how such diverse civic and professional associations have come to be both an ecology of organizations and a systemic and coherent project. The institutional field of sustainable cities has emerged with some core democratic norms and civic practices but also with many tensions and trade-offs that must be crafted and revised strategically in the face of new opportunities and persistent shortfalls. Sirianni’s account draws ambitious yet pragmatic and hopeful lessons for a “Civic Green New Deal”—a policy design for building sustainable and resilient cities on much more robust foundations in the decades ahead while also addressing democratic deficits in our polarized political culture.

Author : Danielle Spiegel-Feld,Katrina Miriam Wyman,John J. Coughlin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781479805730

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Global Sustainable Cities by Danielle Spiegel-Feld,Katrina Miriam Wyman,John J. Coughlin Pdf

Perspectives from worldwide experts on how major cities across the globe are responding to the major environmental threats of our time, including global climate change Over half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and this share is expected to increase in the coming decades. With growing urbanization, cities and their residents face substantial environmental challenges such as higher temperatures, droughts, wildfires, and increased flooding. In response to these pressing challenges, some cities have begun to develop local environmental regulations that supplement national and environmental laws. In so doing, cities have stepped into a role that has been historically dominated by higher levels of government. Global Sustainable Cities takes stock of the policies that have been implemented by cities around the world in recent years in several key areas: water, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation. It examines the advantages—and potential drawbacks—of allowing cities to assume a significant role in environmental regulation, given the legal and political constraints in which cities operate. The contributors present a series of case studies of the actions that seven leading cities—Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Berlin, Delhi, London, New York, and Shanghai—are taking to improve their environments and adapt to climate change. The first volume of its kind, Global Sustainable Cities is a critical comparative assessment of the actions that major cities in the global North and South are taking to advance sustainability.

Author : Gabriela Celani,David Moreno Sperling,Juarez Moara Santos Franco
Publisher : Springer
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662473863

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Computer-Aided Architectural Design: The Next City – New Technologies and the Future of the Built Environment by Gabriela Celani,David Moreno Sperling,Juarez Moara Santos Franco Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAAD Futures 2015, held in São Paulo, Brazil, in July 2015. The 33 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 200 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on modeling, analyzing and simulating the city; sustainability and performance of the built space; automated and parametric design; building information modelling (BIM); fabrication and materiality; shape studies.

Author : Anna Domaradzka,Pierre Hamel
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781839109652

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Handbook on Urban Social Movements by Anna Domaradzka,Pierre Hamel Pdf

Providing an overview of urban social movements from a diverse range of both empirical and theoretical perspectives, this Handbook includes not only a critical analysis of the transformations that have occurred in the urban landscape recently, but also sheds light on the strategies implemented by social actors in various socio-political and cultural contexts. It focuses on understanding better how and to what extent collective action around urban issues remains relevant in our modern world. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Michael E. Kraft,Barry G. Rabe,Norman J. Vig
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781071902110

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Environmental Policy by Michael E. Kraft,Barry G. Rabe,Norman J. Vig Pdf

Environmental Policy brings together top scholars to evaluate the changes and continuities in American environmental policy since the late 1960s and help students think critically about their implications for current policy.

Author : Davia C. Downey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000399448

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Disasters and Economic Recovery by Davia C. Downey Pdf

Disasters and Economic Recovery provides perspectives on the economic issues that emerge before, during, and after natural disasters in an international context, by assessing the economic development patterns that emerge before and after disaster. This book will provide a historical overview of emergency management policy and previous responses to disasters in each country, as well as the policy learning that occurred in each case leading up to the disasters under analysis. The book highlights four cases: New Orleans; Christchurch, New Zealand; the Japan earthquake and tsunami; and Hurricane Sandy in the Northeastern United States. The book places important focus on the specific collaborative developments unique to the rebuilding of each place’s economy post-disaster. Using time-series data, the book shows the emergence of new industries and job hiring patterns in the immediate aftermath, as well as provides a picture of the economic performance of each country in the years following each event. Looking at the economic development policies pre- and post-disaster, readers will glean important lessons on how to build resilient economies within the disaster framework, highlighting the differences in approaches to rebuilding local economies in places with varying levels of governmental capacity post-disaster to inform policymakers, scholars, and the disaster relief community as they plan their response to future disasters.

Author : Curran, Dean
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788972260

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Handbook on Risk and Inequality by Curran, Dean Pdf

This unique Handbook charts shifts in the relationship between risks and inequalities over the last few decades, analysing how inequalities shape risk and how risks condition and intensify inequalities. Expert contributors examine the impacts of environmental, financial, social, urban, economic, and digital risks on inequalities, at both national and global levels.

Author : Thomas Bolognesi,Francisco Silva Pinto,Megan Farrelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000644593

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Routledge Handbook of Urban Water Governance by Thomas Bolognesi,Francisco Silva Pinto,Megan Farrelly Pdf

This handbook provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of urban water governance. Of the many growing challenges presented by rapid urbanization, water governance is a critical one and while urban water governance is now regarded as a critical field of research, the literature is fragmented. For the first time, this handbook brings together urban water governance research, containing interdisciplinary contributions from established and emerging scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. It addresses the key questions of how urban water governance works, how is it shaped, and what the impacts are. The handbook's structure offers a progressive entry into the complexity of urban water governance. Starting with technical dimensions, the handbook addresses supply and demand, wastewater, and sanitation. It then considers regulation and economic factors, examining water utilities and services. Political processes, and the actors involved, are addressed and the handbook finishes with a part focusing on governance and sustainability, where chapters address critically important topics such as access to water, water safety, and water security. This handbook is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals interested in urban water governance, urban studies, and water resource management and sustainability more broadly.

Author : Prashant Vaze,Stephen Tindale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317973348

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Repowering Communities by Prashant Vaze,Stephen Tindale Pdf

Energy policy is at a crossroads. Attempts to meet targets for carbon emissions, energy security and affordable energy for vulnerable households are all on a trajectory to failure. Aggressive ambitions to roll out huge off-shore wind, nuclear and clean coal plants are proposed, but without any clear plans on how funds will be mobilized, or transmission and distribution infrastructure developed. In this book Prashant Vaze and Stephen Tindale ask politicians and regulators to consider a different path. Using abundant examples of small scale local solutions Repowering Communities examines how cities, communities and local authorities from across Europe and North America have driven reductions in energy use and rolled out small scale, community level solutions. Among the issues examined are the drivers behind behavioural change, the methods used to secure necessary investment and what government and civil society can do to foster such action on a wide scale. Based on extensive first-hand research and drawing on the latest global energy data the authors provide essential information and inspiration for readers who wish to drive the policies that encourage community-level energy development.

Author : Michael M. Gunter, Jr.
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231556217

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Climate Travels by Michael M. Gunter, Jr. Pdf

Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Many accounts of climate change depict disasters striking faraway places: melting ice caps, fearsome hurricanes, all-consuming fires. How can seeing the consequences of human impacts up close help us grasp how global warming affects us and our neighbors? This book is a travelogue that spotlights what a changing climate looks like on the local level—for wherever local happens to be. Michael M. Gunter, Jr. takes readers around the United States to bear witness to the many faces of the climate crisis. He argues that conscientious travel broadens understanding of climate change and makes its dangers concrete and immediate. Vivid vignettes explore the consequences for people and communities: sea level rise in Virginia, floods sweeping inland in Tennessee, Maine lobsters migrating away from American territorial waters, and imperiled ecosystems in national parks, from Alaskan permafrost to the Florida Keys. But Gunter finds inspiring initiatives to mitigate and adapt to these threats, including wind turbines in a tiny Texas town, green building construction in Kansas, and walkable urbanism in Portland, Oregon. These projects are already making a difference—and they underscore the importance of local action. Drawing on interviews with government officials, industry leaders, and alternative energy activists, Climate Travels emphasizes direct personal experience and the centrality of environmental justice. Showing how travel can help bring the reality of climate change home, it offers readers a hopeful message about how to take action on the local level themselves.

Author : United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Aircraft accidents
ISBN : UCR:31210024898817

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Joint Resolution Commending the Citizens of the Sioux City, Iowa, Tri-State Area for Their Heroism and Spirit of Volunteerism in Selflessly Providing Assistance and Life-saving Services to the Passengers and Crew of United Airlines Flight 232 by United States Pdf

Author : Jack Brown,Richard Brown,Tony Travers
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785906367

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London's Mayor at 20 by Jack Brown,Richard Brown,Tony Travers Pdf

This year, London's elected mayor and assembly turn twenty. But has London's mayoralty lived up to the expectations that were set for it? Have its three mayors been able to get to grips with the city's challenges? How have they responded to crises in the past – and what does the future hold? This important new book marks the twentieth anniversary of London's mayor and assembly and investigates the relative successes and challenges of the mayoralty to date, before asking what comes next for London. It combines analysis by experts with reflections from those closely involved in setting up, running and working with the Greater London Authority, alongside those who have held the position of Mayor of London themselves.

Author : Aharon Factor,John Parm Ulhøi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429760778

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Sustainability and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises by Aharon Factor,John Parm Ulhøi Pdf

Industrialisation has brought great benefits to humankind but now, after 200 years of fossil fuel use, land clearance and pollution, the planet’s boundaries are being stretched to their limits. Going beyond these confines would have severe consequences for humankind. To prevent this from happening, government, corporate and community initiatives must focus on reducing the environmental impact of approximately 400 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), given that they produce approximately 70% of the world’s pollution, 60% of carbon emissions and have a significant impact on land. To date, research shows that SMEs have been environmental laggards and more needs to be understood to improve sustainability in the SME sector. Broadening the researcher’s methodological focus, beyond traditional singular approaches, improves knowledge generation and better informs policy and practice. This book paves the way by showing the reader that a mixed method research design is able to provide a deep, diverse and holistic understanding of sustainability and SMEs. Importantly, the book also provides an in-depth mapping of mixed method sustainability and SME research at a regional level. As this book is about environmental sustainability framed in a business context, it will be of interest to researchers, academics, students and those in industry who are enquiring about the environmental sustainability of SMEs.

Author : Aaron Deslatte
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781009115810

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Organizing and Institutionalizing Local Sustainability by Aaron Deslatte Pdf

This Element explores the role of public managers as designers. Drawing from systems-thinking and strategic management, a process-tracing methodology is used to examine three design processes whereby public managers develop strategies for adapting to climate change, build the requisite capabilities and evaluate outcomes. Across three cases, the findings highlight the role of managers as 'design- oriented' integration agents and point to areas where additional inquiry is warranted. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.