Promises and Concerns of the Urban Century

J. Heijden, H. Bulkeley, C. Certomà
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In sum, it is now evident that urban responses to climate change involve a diverse range of actors as well as forms of agency that cross traditional boundaries, and which have diverse consequences for (dis)empowering different social groups – helping or hampering them to increase their well-being. Friction between novel forms of agency, new agents of change and (dis)empowerment is a missing focus in existing scholarship on urban climate futures. This edited book addresses this knowledge gap and raises important issues for how we understand urban climate responses. It does so by drawing together insights from a wide range of countries, spanning the Global North to the Global South. The book is unique in its ambition and reach. It brings together 11 chapters by renowned urban climate governance scholars from around the globe. These chapters all critically assess the promises and limitations of increasing agency in urban climate governance. They build on solid empirical knowledge gained from case studies in the Global North and Global South. In doing so it sheds a much-needed critical new light on the existing literature and advances the current state of knowledge on urban climate policy and governance. In this chapter, we begin with setting out the key themes of the book – the politics of urban futures, increasing agency in urban climate policy and governance, and contested empowerment in urban transformations. We discuss some of the puzzles they raise for policy, practice, and academia, and propose a critical analysis of the heterogeneous forms of agency shaping the politics of urban futures. From here on, we briefly introduce the chapters that make up the main body of this book and how they relate to the broader ESG scholarship and other relevant communities and work in the field.
城市世纪的承诺和关注
总之,现在很明显,城市对气候变化的反应涉及各种各样的行为者和机构形式,这些行为者和机构跨越了传统的界限,并对不同的社会群体产生了不同的影响——帮助或阻碍他们增加福祉。新的代理形式、新的变革推动者和(非)授权之间的摩擦是现有城市气候未来研究中缺失的重点。这本经过编辑的书解决了这一知识差距,并为我们如何理解城市气候反应提出了重要问题。它通过汇集从全球北方到全球南方的广泛国家的见解来实现这一目标。这本书的抱负和覆盖面是独一无二的。它汇集了来自全球的著名城市气候治理学者的11个章节。这些章节都批判性地评估了在城市气候治理中增加机构的承诺和局限性。它们建立在从全球北方和全球南方的案例研究中获得的坚实经验知识的基础上。在此过程中,它为现有文献提供了急需的批判性新视角,并推进了城市气候政策和治理的现状。在本章中,我们首先阐述本书的关键主题——城市未来的政治、城市气候政策和治理中日益增加的机构,以及城市转型中有争议的赋权。我们讨论了它们为政策、实践和学术界带来的一些难题,并提出了对塑造城市未来政治的不同形式的机构的批判性分析。从这里开始,我们将简要介绍构成本书主体的章节,以及它们如何与更广泛的ESG学术和其他相关社区以及该领域的工作联系起来。
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