Global Sustainable Cities : : City Governments and Our Environmental Future / / ed. by John J. Coughlin, Danielle Spiegel-Feld, Katrina Miriam Wyman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Anton, Barbara,; Berg, Hanne J. van den,; Biswas, Tirtha,; Cannon, Clare E. B.,; Chu, Eric K.,; Coughlin, John J.,; Długosz-Stroetges, Patrycja,; Feng, He,; Ganguly, Tanushree,; Hartog, Harry den,; Kelly, Frank J.,; Kuldeep, Neeraj,; Lifshitz, Yael R.,; Lin, Alvin,; Minelli, Adalene,; Natekal, Asiya N.,; Ohlhorst, Dörte,; Savarani, Sara,; Schreurs, Miranda A.,; Spiegel-Feld, Danielle,; Tao, Hu,; Vijayaraghavan, Vidya,; Wyman, Katrina Miriam,; Xianqiang, Mao,; Youkai, Xing,; Yubing, Gao,; Zavadski, Katie,; Zeben, Josephine van,
• HerausgeberIn: Coughlin, John J.,; Spiegel-Feld, Danielle,; Wyman, Katrina Miriam,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 11 b/w illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Cross-Cutting Issues: Norms and Laws -- 1 Global Sustainable Cities and Laudato Si’ -- 2 Charting the Legal Landscape: Cities’ Legal Authority to Develop Environmental Law -- Part II Protecting Water Quality and Providing Safe Drinking Water -- 3 No City Is an Island: Water Management in Berlin -- 4 Restoring Freshwater Resources in Abu Dhabi: Challenges and Solutions -- 5 Safeguarding Delhi’s Water -- 6 New York City’s Water -- Part III Reducing Local Air Pollution -- 7 Clearing Delhi’s Air Hits and Misses in the Past Three Decades -- 8 How to Fight Air Pollution: The London Way -- 9 The Authority and Experience of the City of Beijing with Regulating Air Pollution -- Part IV Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- 10 Delhi’s Journey to Reduce Greenhouse Gases: Initiatives and Learnings from the Electricity Sector -- 11 Energy Cities: The Case of London -- 12 Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction in Beijing: Goals, Actions, and Recommendations -- 13 Global Sustainable Cities: Berlin Aims at Climate Neutrality -- 14 Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Buildings in New York City: An Evolving Regime -- Part V Adapting to Climate Change -- 15 Varieties of Approaches to Climate Adaptation in Cities: Toward a Focus on Equity -- 16 Shanghai’s Strive to Excel in Climate Change Adaptation and Low-Carbon Promises: A Model to Follow? -- 17 Adapting New York City: How the Largest US City Is Addressing the Impacts of Climate Change on Its Coastal Communities -- 18 Climate Change Adaptation in Abu Dhabi -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors -- Index