Urban Climate Law - An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer

Aimed at a nonspecialist audience, this book provides concise and comprehensible answers to the core questions cities confront when seeking to develop legally sound local climate policy.

List of contents

A Note on Terminology and Glossary
Introduction
1. Cross-Cutting Legal Concepts
2. Equity
3. Buildings
4. Reducing Transportation-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions
5. Scaling Up Renewable Energy
6. Decarbonizing a City’s Waste
Conclusion
Notes
Index

About the author

Michael Burger is the executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and a senior research scholar at Columbia Law School. His previous books include Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (third edition, 2023). He is also of counsel at Sher Edling LLP.

Amy E. Turner is the director of the Cities Climate Law Initiative at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and an associate research scholar at Columbia Law School. She previously cofounded a climate nonprofit and practiced environmental law in New York City.

Summary

Aimed at a nonspecialist audience, this book provides concise and comprehensible answers to the core questions cities confront when seeking to develop legally sound local climate policy.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Burger, Michael Turner Burger, Amy E. Turner
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2023
• EAN: 9780231201353
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20135-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Columbia University Earth Institute Sustainability Primers
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, Sustainability, LAW / Environmental, LAW / Transportation, LAW / Land Use, Urban & municipal planning, United States of America, USA, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Environment, transport and planning law: general, Environment, transport & planning law, law; science; political science