An Urban Politics of Climate Change: Experimentation and the Governing of Socio-Technical Transitions
About this ebook
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, and to engage with the ways in which this is bound up with the politics and practices of urban infrastructure. The book draws on cases from multiple cities in both developed and emerging economies to providing new insight into the potential and limitations of urban responses to climate change, as well as new conceptual direction for our understanding of the politics of environmental governance.
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.
