Urban Sustainability Transitions
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This book provides new insights into how sustainability transitions unfold in different types of cities across the world and explores possible strategies for governing urban transitions, emphasising the co-evolution of material and institutional transformations in socio-technical and socio-ecological systems. With case studies of mega-cities such as Seoul, Tokyo, New York and Adelaide, medium-sized cities such as Copenhagen, Cape Town and Portland, and nonmetropolitan cities such as Freiburg, Ghent and Brighton, the book provides an opportunity to reflect upon the comparability and transferability of theoretical/conceptual constructs and governance approaches across geographical contexts.
Urban Sustainability Transitions is key reading for students and scholars working in Environmental Sciences, Geography, Urban Studies, Urban Policy and Planning.
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About the author
Niki Frantzeskaki is Associate Professor of Sustainability Transitions Governance at the Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (DRIFT), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Vanesa Castán Broto is Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK.
Lars Coenen is City of Melbourne Chair in Resilient Cities at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Derk Loorbach is Professor of Socio-economic Transitions and Director of the Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (DRIFT), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
