Urban Sustainability Transitions

Herausgeber: Frantzeskaki, Niki; Coenen, Lars; Broto, Vanesa Castán

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides new insights into how sustainability transitions unfold in different types of cities across the world and explores possible strategies for governing urban transitions, emphasizing the co-evolution of material and institutional transformations in socio-technical and socio-ecological systems. With case studies of mega-cities suc

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780367219086
• ISBN-10: 0367219085
• Artikelnr.: 56926474

Autorenporträt

Niki Frantzeskaki is Associate Professor of Sustainability Transitions Governance at the Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (DRIFT), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Vanesa Castán Broto is Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK. Lars Coenen is City of Melbourne Chair in Resilient Cities at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, Australia. Derk Loorbach is Professor of Socio-economic Transitions and Director of the Dutch Research Institute For Transitions (DRIFT), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Urban Sustainability Transitions: The Dynamics and Opportunities of
Sustainability Transitions in Cities 2. Anchoring Global Networks in Urban
Niches: How On-site Water Recycling Emerged in Three Chinese Cities 3.
Understanding the Policy Realities of Urban Transitions 4. The Governance
of Transformative Change: Tracing the Pathway of the Sustainability
Transition in Vancouver, Canada 5. Transitioning Complex Urban Systems: The
Importance of Urban Ecology for Sustainability in New York City 6. The Role
of Place-specific Dynamics in the Destabilization of the Danish Water
Regime: An Actor-Network View on Urban Sustainability Transitions 7.
Village Communities and Social Innovation Policies in Seoul: Exploring the
Urban Dimension of Grassroots Niches 8. Spatialising Urban Sustainability
Transitions: Eco-cities, Multilevel Perspectives and the Political Ecology
of Scale in the Bohai Rim, China 9. Urban Sustainability Transitions:
Opportunities and Challenges for Institutional Change 10. The Rise, Fall
and Resurrection of Waste-to-Energy Technologies in Berlin's Infrastructure
History 11. The Spatial Complexity of Sustainability Transitions in the
'Cities of the East' 12. From Building Small Urban Spaces for a Car-free
Life to Challenging the Global Regime of Automobility: Cases from Vienna
and Freiburg 13. Multiple Transitions: Energy Precariousness and
'Transient' Urban Tenants 14. Worth the Trouble?! An Evaluative Scheme for
Urban Sustainability Transition Labs (USTLs) and an Application to the USTL
in Phoenix, Arizona 15. Change and Persistency: Understanding
Social-ecological Transition in a Post-socialist City - the Example of
Leipzig, Germany 16. A Multi-Actor Perspective on Urban Sustainability
Transitions 17. Cities as Arenas of Low-carbon Transitions: Friction Zones
in the Negotiation of Low-carbon Futures 18. Mediators Acting in Urban
Transition Processes: Carlsberg City District and Cycle Superhighways 19.
Flows, Infrastructures and the African Urban Transition 20. Focusing on
Ecosystem Services in the Multiple Social-ecological Transitions of Lodz
21. The Politics of Urban Sustainability Transitions 22. Sustainability
Transitions and the City: Linking to Transition Studies and Looking Forward