Overview
- Critically explores how cities are engaging in climate change mitigation, adaptation and experimentation at a variety of urban and global scales
- Identifies new ways cities can contribute to low carbon development pathways in responding to global climate change
- Illustrates how city-engagement in global climate politics informs our understanding of power in global environmental regimes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Cities and the Global Politics of the Environment (CGPEP)
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Book Title: The Power of Cities in Global Climate Politics
Book Subtitle: Saviours, Supplicants or Agents of Change?
Authors: Craig A. Johnson
Series Title: Cities and the Global Politics of the Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59469-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59468-6Published: 20 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95534-3Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59469-3Published: 06 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3459
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3467
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 169
Topics: Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Management and Policy