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Environmental issues have always burdened cities and their residents. This volume analyses how cities have solved past environmental challenges to provide a framework on which to build solutions to the problems caused by the climate crisis. It sets urban environmental crises within the socio-technical history of urban development. With six application chapters that provide rich and detailed examples of urban environmental transitions - including water resources, air quality, and public health - this book promotes better understanding of how urban environmental change takes place across a wide array of social-ecological-technological systems. It illustrates the process of urban environmental transition and the role crises play in shifts in urban environmental policy. Readers of the book will gain a deeper understanding of urban climate action and activities for future action. It is invaluable reading for students, researchers, and policymakers in environmental sustainability, climate change, urban studies and planning, and public policy.
Contents
Foreword Debra Roberts; Acknowledgments; Part I. Framing Chapters: 1. Setting climate change within the narrative of urban environmental crises and transformation; 2. Why do cities face environmental crises?; 3. What about cities make them places for environmental problem solving?; 4. Framing how urban systems change; Part II. Application Case Chapters: 5. Natural resource supply and scarcity: securing urban drinking water; 6. Environment degradation and quality: urban air quality; 7. Public health: disease and epidemics; 8. Environmental risk and hazards: acute and chronic events; 9. Resource use efficiency and pathways to environmental sustainability: the three R's (reduce, reuse, recycle); 10. Mobility, Livability and Sustainability: Balancing economics, ecology, and equity; Part III. Synthesis Chapters: 11. Urban environmental crises and policy transitions; 12. Opportunities to advance environmental policy transitions and transformative climate action; References; Index.
