Cities and Environmental Change - From Crisis to Transformation

This book examines how cities address environmental concerns, identifying key the strategies used and suggesting solutions for future action. It is invaluable reading for students, researchers, and policymakers in environmental sustainability, climate change, urban studies and planning, and public policy.

List of contents

Foreword Debra Roberts; Acknowledgments; Part I. Framing Chapters: 1. Setting climate change within the narrative of urban environmental crises and transformation; 2. Why do cities face environmental crises?; 3. What about cities make them places for environmental problem solving?; 4. Framing how urban systems change; Part II. Application Case Chapters: 5. Natural resource supply and scarcity: securing urban drinking water; 6. Environment degradation and quality: urban air quality; 7. Public health: disease and epidemics; 8. Environmental risk and hazards: acute and chronic events; 9. Resource use efficiency and pathways to environmental sustainability: the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle); 10. Mobility, Livability and Sustainability: Balancing economics, ecology, and equity; Part III. Synthesis Chapters: 11. Urban environmental crises and policy transitions; 12. Opportunities to advance environmental policy transitions and transformative climate action; References; Index.

About the author

William Solecki (Ph.D. Geography) has studied the interaction of urbanization and climate change for almost thirty years. He has served as an author on several Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments and is a co-founder of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN). He is a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers.

Summary

This book examines how cities address environmental concerns, identifying key the strategies used and suggesting solutions for future action. It is invaluable reading for students, researchers, and policymakers in environmental sustainability, climate change, urban studies and planning, and public policy.

Foreword

This book examines how cities address environmental concerns, identifying key strategies used and suggesting solutions for future action.

Product details

• Authors: William Solecki, William (City University of New York) Solecki
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.06.2025
• EAN: 9781108463027
• ISBN: 978-1-108-46302-7
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, LAW / Environmental, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Politics and government, Earth Sciences, Urban and municipal planning and policy, International Environmental Law, Settlement, urban and rural geography, Environmental policy and protocols, Rural planning and policy, Climatology and climate modelling