Cities and Climate Change Climate Policy, Economic Resilience and Urban Sustainability
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Zaheer Allam, David Jones, Meelan Thondoo
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Cities and Climate Change Climate Policy, Economic Resilience and Urban Sustainability
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Palgrave Macmillan
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9783030407278
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This book explores climate change responsiveness policies for cities and discusses why they have been slow to gain traction despite having been on the international agenda for the last 30 years. The contributing role of cities in accentuating the effects of climate change is increasingly demonstrated in the literature, underscoring the unsustainable models on which urban life has been made to thrive. As these issues become increasingly apparent, there are global calls to adopt more sustainable and equitable models, however doing so will mean the disruption of economies that have historically relied upon pollution-generating industries. In order to address these issues the authors examine them from a cross-disciplinary perspective, bringing in regional, local and urban standpoints to subsequently propose an alternative short-term economic model that could accelerate the adoption of climate change mitigation infrastructures and urban sustainability in urban areas.
This book will be of particular value to scholars and students alike in the field of urbanism, sustainability and resilience, as well as practitioners looking at avenues for economically incentivizing sustainable development in various geographical context.
Zaheer Allam
works as an Urban Strategist for the Port Louis Development Initiative (PLDI), Mauritius and the Global Creative Leadership Initiative. He is the African Representative of the International Society of Biourbanism (ISB) and a member of the Advisory Circle of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA). He was elevated, by the President of Mauritius, to the rank of Officer of the Order of the Star and Key of the Indian Ocean (OSK); the highest distinct order of Merit in Mauritius.
David Jones
is a Foundation Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at Deakin University, Australia. He has worked in partnerships with several Indigenous communities in Australia as well as on designs for the Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga Regeneration Project (2017). Amongst others he is a co-author of Aboriginal Reconnections (2013), Geelong's Changing Landscape (2019), Re-casting Terra Nullius Blindness (2017), Creating Healthy Places (2017) and Indigenous Knowledge in the Built Environment (2018).
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Meelan Thondoo
is a Ph.D. candidate in Medicine and Anthropology at theEMJD European Commission Transglobal Health Program and holds an M.Sc. in Medical Anthropology and an MPH in Health Economics. She has worked on numerous projects led by the World Health Organization, DFID UK, and the Bill& Melinda Gates Foundation. She has received academic and pro-bono awards from the University of Salamanca, the World Bank Institute, and the UN Global Humanitarian Forum, and is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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Foreword
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Contents
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About the Authors
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List of Figures
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1 Urban Resilience and Climate Change
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Introduction
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Cities and Climate Policy
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Urban Economic Loss from Climate Change
22
The Need for Urban Resilience
27
Green Funding, a Dry-Cleaning Story
29
Climate Technology and Fortune Telling
32
References
35
2 Decarbonization and Urban Sustainability
45
Introduction
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Regional Decarbonization
49
Climate Policy and Decarbonization
52
The Global Ecosystem
54
Paving Way for the City
57
Climate Change Mitigation and Regional Decarbonization
59
References
61
3 Climate Change Mitigation and Urban Liveability
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Introduction
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Climate Change and Urban Liveability
71
Climate Change Funding Avenues
78
The Unsustainability of Debt Financing and Urban Liveability
83
References
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4 Economically Incentivizing Urban Sustainability and Resilience
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Introduction
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Background
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The SDGS, the New Urban Agenda and the Urban Economy
100
Foreign Aid and the Debt Trap Diplomacy
104
Introducing Fiscal Incentivization and Development
106
Conclusion
110
References
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5 Achieving Urban Resilience Within the Capitalist Movement
118
Introduction
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Re-engineering Marx in the Twenty-First-Century Urban Context
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The State vs Disruption: A Case for Socio-Economic Stability
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Structures of Scale: Transitory Economic Policies
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Conclusion
126
References
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Index
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