Cities and Low Carbon Transitions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities and Low Carbon Transitions write by Harriet Bulkeley. This book was released on 2010-12-14. Cities and Low Carbon Transitions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Rethinking Urban Transitions
Rethinking Urban Transitions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Urban Transitions write by Andrés Luque-Ayala. This book was released on 2018-03-15. Rethinking Urban Transitions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rethinking Urban Transitions provides critical insight for societal and policy debates about the potential and limits of low carbon urbanism. It draws on over a decade of international research, undertaken by scholars across multiple disciplines concerned with analysing and shaping urban sustainability transitions. It seeks to open up the possibility of a new generation of urban low carbon transition research, which foregrounds the importance of political, geographical and developmental context in shaping the possibilities for a low carbon urban future. The book’s contributions propose an interpretation of urban low carbon transitions as primarily social, political and developmental processes. Rather than being primarily technical efforts aimed at measuring and mitigating greenhouse gases, the low carbon transition requires a shift in the mode and politics of urban development. The book argues that moving towards this model requires rethinking what it means to design, practise and mobilize low carbon in the city, while also acknowledging the presence of multiple and contested developmental pathways. Key to this shift is thinking about transitions, not solely as technical, infrastructural or systemic shifts, but also as a way of thinking about collective futures, societal development and governing modes – a recognition of the political and contested nature of low carbon urbanism. The various contributions provide novel conceptual frameworks as well as empirically rich cases through which we can begin to interrogate the relevance of socio-economic, political and developmental dimensions in the making or unmaking of low carbon in the city. The book draws on a diverse range of examples (including ‘world cities’ and ‘ordinary cities’) from North America, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa, India and China, to provide evidence that expectations, aspirations and plans to undertake purposive socio-technical transitions are both emerging and encountering resistance in different urban contexts. Rethinking Urban Transitions is an essential text for courses concerned with cities, climate change and environmental issues in sociology, politics, urban studies, planning, environmental studies, geography and the built environment.
Sustainable Urbanism in Digital Transitions
Sustainable Urbanism in Digital Transitions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustainable Urbanism in Digital Transitions write by Mary J. Thornbush. This book was released on 2019-08-06. Sustainable Urbanism in Digital Transitions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines how contemporary urbanism is influenced by digital and low carbon transitions. From its infancy at the scale of individual buildings, a focus on ‘green’ agenda, energy, and resource efficiency has fostered research and policies for low carbon cities, eco-cities, and increasingly intelligent and smarter urban systems. Cities around the world are getting ‘smarter’ as more advanced technology is integrated into urban planning and design. People are relying more on digital and information and communication technology (ICT) in their daily lives, while cities are adopting more digital technology to monitor and gather information about people and their environment. This leads to Big Data collection, which is used to inform governance and improve urban performance. These transformations, however, raise critical questions, including whether emerging smart sustainable cities are too technocratic, but also with regard to citizen involvement. This brief addresses these important contemporary concerns through a review of literature and existing urban strategies. It should be of interest to everyone involved in advancing sustainable cities and smart cities. It should also be a relevant read for students and researchers in this area.
Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities
Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities write by Timea Nochta. This book was released on 2020-10-12. Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates and evaluates the opportunities and limitations of network governance in building local capacity for energy infrastructure governance. Presenting a comparative analysis of three city cases from across Europe- Birmingham, Frankfurt and Budapest- this book demonstrates how local factors shape the prospect of network governance to support low-carbon energy transitions. It maps out existing governance networks, highlighting the actors involved and their interactions with one another, and also discusses the role and embeddedness of networks in the urban governance of low-carbon energy. Drawing on case study evidence, Nochta develops a comparative analysis which discusses the intricate connections between network characteristics, context and impact. It highlights that organisational fragmentation; the complexity of the low-carbon energy problem and historical developments all influence network characteristics in terms of degree of integration and vertical (hierarchical) power relationships among network actors. Overall, the book concludes that understanding such links between context and networks is crucial when designing and implementing new governance models aimed at facilitating and governing low-carbon urban development. Low-Carbon Energy Transitions in European Cities will be of great interest to scholars of energy policy, urban governance and sustainability transitions.
Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China
Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China write by Zhang, Le-Yin. This book was released on 2021-11-19. Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Utilizing a governmentality lens, this timely book offers an explanation for ChinaÕs decarbonization performance in the early 21st century. Le-Yin Zhang investigates one of the most ambitious governing projects in history, analyzing the political rationalities of Chinese leaders for decarbonization and the governing techniques and technologies at multiple levels of governance.
