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Global Sustainable Cities

City Governments and Our Environmental Future

von: Danielle Spiegel-Feld, Katrina Miriam Wyman, John J. Coughlin
37,99 €
Verlag:	NYU Press
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	24.01.2023
ISBN/EAN:	9781479805730
Sprache:	englisch

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Perspectives from worldwide experts on how major cities across the globe are responding to the major environmental threats of our time, including global climate change Over half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and this share is expected to increase in the coming decades. With growing urbanization, cities and their residents face substantial environmental challenges such as higher temperatures, droughts, wildfires, and increased flooding. In response to these pressing challenges, some cities have begun to develop local environmental regulations that supplement national and environmental laws. In so doing, cities have stepped into a role that has been historically dominated by higher levels of government. Global Sustainable Cities takes stock of the policies that have been implemented by cities around the world in recent years in several key areas: water, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and climate adaptation. It examines the advantages—and potential drawbacks—of allowing cities to assume a significant role in environmental regulation, given the legal and political constraints in which cities operate. The contributors present a series of case studies of the actions that seven leading cities—Abu Dhabi, Beijing, Berlin, Delhi, London, New York, and Shanghai—are taking to improve their environments and adapt to climate change. The first volume of its kind, Global Sustainable Cities is a critical comparative assessment of the actions that major cities in the global North and South are taking to advance sustainability.

Autorenportrait

Danielle Spiegel-Feld (Editor) 
 
Danielle Spiegel-Feld is Executive Director of the Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy & Land Use Law at NYU School of Law.
 
 
Katrina Miriam Wyman (Editor) 
 
Katrina Miriam Wyman is the Sarah Herring Sorin Professor of Law in the School of Law at New York University.
 
 
John J. Coughlin (Editor) 
 
John J. Coughlin is Global Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and Law and NYU, Abu Dhabi and Affiliated Faculty at NYU Law School and author of
Canon Law: A Comparative Study With Anglo-American Legal Theory and
Law, Person and Community, Theological, Philosophical, and Comparative Perspectives on Canon Law.