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Cool cities : urban sovereignty and the fix for global warming /
A pointed argument that cities-not nation-states-can and must take the lead in fighting climate change. Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively, even on the urgent issue of sustai...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Politics Not Science; PART ONE: MAKING POLITICS WORK FOR SCIENCE; 1 The Social Contract and the Rights of Cities; 2 The Devolution Revolution and the Politics of COP 21; 3 Climate Change in the Anthropocene; 4 The Facts Are Mute, Money Talks; 5 Privatization and Market Fundamentalism; 6 Political Institutions Old and New: Cities Not Nation- States; 7 The Road to Global Governance; 8 Climate Justice: Making Sustainability and Resilience Complementary; 9 The End of Sovereignty Redux: A Global Parliament of Mayors.
- PART TWO: MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK FOR POLITICS10 Common Principles and Urban Action; 11 The Politics of Commensurability and the Challenge of Trust; 12 City Sovereignty and the Need for Urban Networks; 13 A Practical Climate Action Agenda; 14 Exemplary Cities; 15 Trust Among Cities: An Index of Commensurability; 16 Realizing the Urban Climate Agenda; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.