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Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development.
Which new institutions do we need in order to trigger local- and global sustainable urban development? Are cities the right starting points for implementing sustainability policies? If so, what are the implications for city management? This book reflects the situation of cities in the context of glo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge studies in sustainable development.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Institutional and Social Innovation for Sustainable Urban Development; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Boxes; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; Part I Social innovations for sustainability; 1 HES-based transdisciplinary case studies: The example of sustainable transformation of leisure traffic in the city of Basel; 2 Smart Growth: Sustainability innovations; 3 Participatory budgeting and urban sustainability: Reviewing lessons from Latin America; 4 Urban governance and climate-change experiments; 5 Rubanisation; 6 Resource-oriented monitoring of sustainable urban development.
- Part II Urban transformations7 The social dimensions of urban transformation: Contemporary diversity in Global North cities and the challenges for urban cohesion; 8 Privatization, urban fragmentation, and sustainable development; 9 "New urban players" in Africa and Asia: The role of Grassroots Organizations; 10 Does size matter?: A critical assessment of the megacity-discourse; 11 Urban development, climate change, and associated risks in Ho Chi Minh City: Vulnerabilities and adaptation challenges for a rapidly growing megacity.
- 12 Mumbai, the megacity and the global city: A view of the spatial dimension of urban resiliencePart III Urban transition management
- from an institutionalized perspective; 13 Managing metropolises by negotiating urban growth; 14 Cross-national urban sustainability learning: A case study on "continuous interaction" in green infrastructure policies; 15 Case study: The idea of sustainable city budgets in Germany; 16 Syntegrating city management; 17 "Sustainability is self-evident in high quality planning": The role of the international urban planner.
- 18 The city as a customer: Siemens and sustainable urban infrastructurePart IV The (new) role of science; 19 Transdisciplinarity; 20 Towards a socio-metabolic history of cities; 21 Urban transdisciplinarity in a national program for applied megacity research; 22 The institutionalization of interfaces as a prerequisite in transformations towards sustainability; 23 The changing role of the science and technology policy advisor in a new global context; 24 The role of universities in fostering urban and regional sustainability; City index; Index.