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The Urban Climate Challenge

This volume takes readers on a comprehensive tour through the world of urban carbon governance research and is sure to set the agenda for a new generation of cities and climate change researchers. Michele M. Betsill, Colorado State University

If dangerous climate change is to be avoided, we need both adaptation and mitigation to be incorporated into urban investments, policies and planning everywhere. This needs strong engagement with local stakeholders (especially those most at risk) and strong support from national governments and global climate governance regimes. This book provides a valuable contribution to how this can be done and where responsibilities for this lie. David Satterthwaite, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives, The Urban Climate Challenge provides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime. Bringing together experts working in the fields of global environmental governance, urban sustainability and climate change, this volume explores the ways in which cities, transnational urban networks and global policy institutions are repositioning themselves in relation to this changing global policy environment.

Focusing on both Northern and Southern experience across the globe, three questions that have strong bearing on the ways in which we understand and assess the changing relationship between cities and global climate system are examined.

• How are cities repositioning themselves in relation to the global climate regime?
• How are cities being repositionedconceptually and epistemologically?
• What are the prospects for crafting policies that can reduce the urban carbon footprint while at the same time building resilience to future climate change?

The Urban Climate Challenge will be of interest to scholars of urban climate policy, global environmental governance and climate change. It will be of interest to readers more generally interested in the ways in which cities are now addressing the inter-related challenges of sustainable urban growth and global climate change.

Craig Johnson is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Development Studies at the University of Guelph in Canada. His research focuses on questions of land and resource governance in the context of urbanization, globalization and climate change.

Noah Toly is Director of Urban Studies and Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at Wheaton College in the United States (IL). His research and teaching interests are at the intersections of urban and global environmental governance, with particular interests in the participation of cities as sites and municipalities as actors in climate governance regimes.

Heike Schroeder is a Senior Lecturer in Climate Change and International Development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. Her areas of work include global environmental politics, urban climate governance, the role of non-state actors in international cooperation on climate change and forest governance.

Cities and Global Governance

Edited by Noah Toly, Wheaton College

The Routledge series Cities and Global Governance is composed of contributed volumes covering key areas of study at the intersection of urbanism and global governance. Each title explores dimensions of the relationship between the local and the global, between urban landscapes and global dynamics. Authors in the series make empirical and theoretical contributions that advance our understanding of the role of cities as sites and actors in global governance.

1 Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance

Spaces of Innovation, Places of Leadership

Sofie Bouteligier

2 The Power of Cities in International Relations

Edited by Simon Curtis

3 Global Cities and Climate Change

The Translocal Relations of Environmental Governance

Taedong Lee

4 The Urban Climate Challenge

Rethinking the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime

Edited by Craig Johnson, Noah Toly and Heike Schroeder

The Urban Climate Challenge

Rethinking the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime

Edited by Craig Johnson, Noah Toly and Heike Schroeder

First published 2015

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With the exception of Chapters 9 and 11, no part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The urban climate challenge : rethinking the role of cities in the global climate regime / edited by Craig Johnson, Noah Toly, Heike Schroeder.
pages cm. (Cities and global governance ; 4)
Includes index.
1.Urban ecology (Sociology)2.Climatic changes.3.Environmental policy.4.Urban policyEnvironmental aspects.I.Johnson, Craig (Craig Anthony)II.Toly, Noah.III.Schroeder, Heike.
HT241.U694 2015
307.76dc23
2014036428

ISBN: 978-1-138-77688-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-77298-1 (ebk)

Typeset in Sabon

by Apex CoVantage, LLC

This research was supported by the Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (Canada) under Grant 430-2012-0827.

Contents

Part I
Governing the Urban Climate Challenge: Understanding the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime

CRAIG JOHNSON, HEIKE SCHROEDER AND NOAH TOLY

SASKIA SASSEN

KATLEEN DE FLANDER

Part II
Going Global? The Changing Face of Urban Climate Governance

DAVID GORDON AND MICHELE ACUTO

SOFIE BOUTELIGIER

Part III
Domestic Policy Responses: Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation into Urban Climate Governance

JOANA SETZER, LAURA VALENTE DE MACEDO AND FERNANDO REI

SARAH BURCH, ALISON SHAW, FREYA KRISTENSEN, JOHN ROBINSON AND ANN DALE

EMILY BOYD, ADITYA GHOSH AND MAXWELL T. BOYKOFF

ALEXANDER AYLETT

Part IV
Regional Policy Perspectives: Comparing Policies and Outcomes across Regional Policy Regimes

PATRICIA ROMERO-LANKAO, JORGELINA HARDOY, SARA HUGHES, ANGLICA ROSAS-HUERTA, ROXANA BRQUEZ AND DANIEL M. GNATZ

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