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Availability:In StockContributor:Harriet Bulkeley, Mike HodsonSeries:Routledge Studies in Human GeographyTheme:Demographic Orientation/UrbanPublish date:12/7/2010Pages:224
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780415586979ISBN-10:0415586976UPC:9780415586979Book Category:Architecture, Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Urban & Land Use Planning, Earth Sciences, Human GeographyBook Topic:GeographySize:9.20 x 6.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.459Product ID:SCA5PAQ7RH
Cities and Low Carbon Transitions presents a ground-breaking analysis of the role of cities in low carbon socio-technical transitions. Insights from the fields of urban studies and technological transitions are combined to examine how, why, and with what implications cities bring about low carbon transitions. The book outlines the key concepts underpinning theories of socio-technical transition and assesses its potential strengths and limits for understanding the social and technological responses to climate change that are emerging in cities. It draws on a diverse range of examples including world cities, ordinary cities and transition towns, from North America, Europe, South Africa and China, to provide evidence that expectations, aspirations and plans to undertake purposive socio-technical transitions are emerging in different urban contexts.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:RoutledgeISBN-13:9780415586979ISBN-10:0415586976UPC:9780415586979Book Category:Architecture, Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Urban & Land Use Planning, Earth Sciences, Human GeographyBook Topic:GeographySize:9.20 x 6.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.459Product ID:SCA5PAQ7RH

Harriet Bulkeley is a Professor at the Department of Geography, and Deputy Director of Durham Energy Institute, Durham University. Her research interests focuses on the nature and politics of environmental governance and on climate change and urban sustainability. She is co-author (with Michele Betsill) of Cities and Climate Change (Routledge, 2003), and currently holds an ESRC Climate Change Leadership Fellowship and a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Geography.

Vanesa Castán Broto is a Lecturer at the Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London. Her research interests focuses on how technology and environmental knowledge mediate the relationship between society and the environment. She has an inter-disciplinary background in engineering and social sciences.

Mike Hodson is Associate Director and Senior Research Fellow at the SURF Centre, University of Salford. His research interests focus on urban and regional transitions to low-carbon economies, the ways in which this may or may not happen and understandings of the lessons to be learned from such processes. He has developed projects funded by the European Commission, UK research councils, sub-national government and through private consultancy.

Simon Marvin is Carillion Chair of Low Carbon Cities, Professor at the Department of Geography and Deputy Director of Durham Energy Institute, Durham University. He is an expert on the changing relations between neighbourhoods, cities, regions and infrastructure networks in a period of resource constraint, institutional restructuring and climate change. Simon's research has been funded by the ESRC, EPSRC, international research foundations, the European Commission, commercial funders and many public agencies. He has co-authored of three internationally leading books on cities and infrastructure.


Publisher: Routledge

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