PART I: Agenda Setting for the Urban Future with a Green Urban Economy
1. Introduction: Agenda Setting for the Urban Future with a Green Urban Economy
Monika Zimmermann and Richard Simpson
PART II: Setting a Green Economy Agenda for Cities
2. Introduction: Setting a Green Economy Agenda for Cities
Richard Simpson
3. New Urban Spaces: The Emergence of Green Economies
Kenneth Odero
4. Environmental Discourse and Economic Growth in the Greening of Post-Industrial Cities
Corina Mckendry
5. Sustainable Urban Transformation and the Green Urban Economy
Kes Mccormick, Stefan Anderberg and Lana Neij
6. Green Cities: Benefits of Urban Sustainability
Essam Hassan Mohamed Ahmed
7. Working in Green Cities: Improving the Urban Environment While Creating Jobs and Enhancing Working Conditions
Edmundo Werna
8. Sustainable Development for Cities and Citizens: Green Housing, Employment and Transport
Asif Kabani and Maliha Kabani
9. Cities and the Green Economy
Philipp Rode
10. Green Cities Into Practice
Vito Albino and Rosa Maria Dangelico
11. Emerging-Market Cities Could Set a New Standard for Sustainable Development
Jonathan Woetzel, Shannon Bouton, Molly Lindsay
PART III: Joining Forces to Accelerate Action
12. Introduction: Joining Forces to Accelerate Action
Phoebe Stirling
13. Accelerating Green Urban Growth
Bernd Hendriksen and Eric Copius Peereboom
14. Linking Green City Politics with Green Business
Ulrich Mans and Sara Meerow
15. Policy Instruments for Promoting a Green Urban Economy: The Changing Role of the State
Golam Rasul
16. Local Sustainability: Driving Green Urban Economies Through Public Engagement
Rosalie Callway
17. We Know Enough: Achieving Action Through the Convergence of Sustainable Community Development and the Social Economy
Sean Connelly, Sean Markey, and Mark Roseland
18. Seven Conditions for Effective Green Governance
Rula Taher Qalyoubi
PART IV: Strategies and Approaches for Greening Urban Economies
19. Introduction: Strategies and Approaches for Greening Urban Economies
Shay Kelleher
20. The Economics of Low Carbon Cities: Approaches to a City-Scale Mini-Stern Review
Andy Gouldson, Niall Kerr, Corrado Topi, Ellie Dawkins, Johan Kuylenstierna and Richard Pearce
21. City Development Strategies and the Transition Towards a Green Urban Economy
Le-Yin Zhang
22. Low Carbon Enterprise Zones: Towards a Fossil Fuel Free City Economy
Philip Monaghan
23. Green Clusters and the Entrepreneurial Local Government: Portland’s Economic Development Strategy
Art Von Lehe and Shay Kelleher
24. Green Cities Require Green Housing: Advancing the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Housing and Slum Upgrading in Cities in Developing Countries
Matthew French and Christophe Lalande
25. EcoMobility and its Benefits in an Urban Context
Santhosh Kodukula
26. Assessing the Cost of Groundwater Degradation in the Urbanizing Desert Area of Wadi El Natrun
Caroline King and Boshra Salem
27. Constructed Wetlands for the Treatment of Domestic Grey Water: An Instrument of the Green Economy to Realize the Millennium Development Goals
Gopalsamy Poyyamoli, Golda Edwin and Nandhivarman Muthu
28. Decentralized Composting in Asian Cities: Lessons Learned and Future Potential in Meeting the Green Urban Economy
Dickella Premakumara
29. Biodiversity and Culture, Two Key Ingredients for a Truly Green Urban Economy: Learning From Agriculture and Forestry Policies in Kanazawa City, Japan
Raquel Moreno-Peñaranda
30. An Economic Assessment of the Deforestation of Ghana’s Garden City of West Africa
Jonathan Quartey
31. Financing a Green Urban Economy: The Potential of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Maike Sippel and Axel Michaelowa
PART V: Experiences and Examples from City Governments
32. Introduction: Experiences and Examples from City Governments
Steven Bland
33. Synergies Between Environment and Economy Within a City Administration - Experiences Made by the City of Hannover, Germany
Hans Mönninghoff
34. Auckland Council: Creating a Transformational Shift Towards a Sustainable Eco-Economy
Paul Chambers and Andrew Walters
35. Sustainable Urban Development Policy in the Region of Flanders
Jan De Mulder
36. Greening the Local Economy Through Municipal Sustainable Procurement Policies: Implementation Challenges and Successes in Western Canada
Andrew Kemp and Amelia Clarke
37. City of Raleigh Office of Sustainability: Green Building Training Program
Lynn Graham, Emily Steele, Anna Leonard, Jen Baker, and Julian Prosser
38. Changing to a Sustainable Socio-Economic System: A Challenge for Kyoto as a Historic City
Makoto Ueda
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