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Local Action on Climate Change: Opportunities and Constraints book cover

1st Edition

Local Action on Climate Change Opportunities and Constraints

Edited By Susie Moloney, Hartmut Fünfgeld, Mikael Granberg Copyright 2018
174 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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There is growing interest in analysing the role and effectiveness of the local scale in responding to the global challenge of climate change. However, while accounts of urban climate change governance are growing, there is now a real need for further conceptual and empirical work to better understand processes of change and uptake across a range of climate change actions. Local Action on... Read more

Chapter 1. Climate Change Responses from the Global to Local Scale: An Overview Susie Moloney, Hartmut Fünfgeld and Mikael Granberg

Chapter 2. Using collaborative governing to catalyse climate change action in Australian municipalities Hartmut Fünfgeld and Susie Moloney

Chapter 3. Governance and agency beyond boundaries: climate resilience in Port Vila’s peri-urban settlements Alexei Trundle

Chapter 4. ‘Learning by Doing’: Lessons from the Co-Production of Three South African Municipal Climate Change Adaptation Plans Julia Davies and Gina Ziervogel

Chapter 5. Towns in Transition - Regional and Ideological Diversity among Local Climate Protection Projects and Regional Revitalization Efforts in Rural Japan Christian Dimmer and Daniel Kremers

Chapter. 6 Multi-level Climate Change Planning: Scale, capacity, and the ability for local action Neha Sami

Chapter 7. Climate change adaptation, city competitiveness and urban planning in the city of Karlstad, Sweden Mikael Granberg and Lars Nyberg

Chapter 8. From Engagement to Empowerment: Climate Change and Resilience Planning in Baltimore City Kristin Baja and Mikael Granberg

Chapter 9: Towards transformative action: learning from local experiences and contexts Susie Moloney, Hartmut Fünfgeld and Mikael Granberg

Biography

Susie Moloney is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Urban Planning in the School of Global Urban and Social Studies and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Australia.

Hartmut Fünfgeld is an Associate Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning in the School of Global Urban and Social Studies and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Australia.

Mikael Granberg is a Professor of Political Science, the Director of the Centre for Climate and Safety at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is also a research fellow and board member of the Swedish national Centre for Natural Disaster Science, CNDS.

"At a time when climate change is firmly on the agenda of decision-makers and planners, and the complexity of this challenge calls for coordinated, multi-level and multi-scalar action, this book is an important contribution."
Christine Ro, Environment and Urbanization
https://www.environmentandurbanization.org/local-action-climate-change-opportunities-and-constraints

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