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An Urban Politics of Climate Change provides the first account of urban responses to climate change that moves beyond the boundary of municipal institutions to critically examine the governing of climate change in the city as a matter of both public and private authority.
List of contents
1. Climate governance and urban experiments 2. Experiments and the governing of climate change in the city 3. Towards zero carbon housing in Bangalore, India. 4: Bioclimatic housing for low income residents in Monterrey, Mexico 5. The coolest block contest in Philadelphia, USA 6. Retrofitting social housing in Cape Town, South Africa 7. Mapping the solar city in Berlin, Germany 8. Solar hot water and social housing in Sao Paulo, Brazil 9. Climateers - pioneering a new response to climate change in Hong Kong? 10. Making low carbon zones in London, UK 11. Experimentation and the politics of justice in urban climate governance 12: An urban transition?
About the author
Harriet Bulkeley is Professor of Geography at the University of Durham. Her research interests are in the nature and politics of environmental governance, with a particular focus on climate change, energy and urban sustainability. She is author of Climate Change and the City (Routledge, Critical Introductions to the City 2012), and (with Peter Newell) of Governing Climate Change (Routledge 2010).
Vanesa Castán Broto is a Lecturer at the Development and Planning Unit of the Barlett Faculty of the Built Environment in University College London. She teaches at the post-graduate level in urban political ecology and sustainable development, urban development planning and urban resilience.
Gareth Edwards is a Lecturer in Geography and Development in the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia. His research interests centre on the ethics of environmental governance, with a focus on the political ecology of climate change and water.
Summary
An Urban Politics of Climate Change provides the first account of urban responses to climate change that moves beyond the boundary of municipal institutions to critically examine the governing of climate change in the city as a matter of both public and private authority.
