Full Description
This significant book addresses the most important legal issues that cities face when attempting to adapt to the changing climate. This includes how to become more resilient against the impacts of climate change such as sea level rise, increases in the intensity and frequency of storms, floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures.
A range of expert contributors are brought together to assess the current state of climate change law and policy at the city level, featuring analysis of key legal instruments that can help urban societies adapt to, and cope with, the changing climate. Chapters contain comparative assessments of urban climate change policies in cities across the world, in both developed and developing countries, including Ghana, South Africa, Indonesia, the Netherlands and the US. Additionally, the book analyses legal approaches, relying on planning law and other legal instruments in the hands of city governments, which can aid in combating specific problems such as the urban heat island effect.
Providing an up-to-date analysis of climate change adaptation and mitigation law at the level of cities, Urban Climate Resilience will be a key resource for academics and students of environmental law, public international law, urban planning and sustainability. The lessons for future policies and laws to create more climate resilient cities will also be useful for local policymakers, regulators and city government officials working on climate change at the local level.
Contents
Contents:
Foreword by Gianluca Crispi xiv
1 Introduction to climate resilient cities and the law 1
Angela van der Berg and Jonathan Verschuuren
2 The role of international law in enhancing urban climate
resilience 20
Esmé Shirlow
3 Legislating for urban climate resilience: the case of Amsterdam 44
Sol Maria Halleck Vega and Josephine van Zeben
4 Indian cities' climate resilience: what role for transnational
environmental law? 70
Tuula Honkonen
5 Enabling urban climate action in Accra, Ghana: policy
pathways and advances toward urban climate resilience 104
Michael Addaney
6 Resilience justice and adaptive law in European cities 124
Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold and Tiago de Melo Cartaxo
7 Room available: an overview of the literature on urban
private property adaptation law 150
Joris van Laarhoven
8 Strategic adaptation to climate change: a legal comparative
study of Lyon and Montréal with a focus on urban heat islands 191
Emma Novel
9 Advancing climate resilience in US cities through green infrastructure
by leveraging their dual roles as regulator and regulated under the US Clean Water Act 221
Robert Weinstock
10 The climate change mitigation and adaptation imperative
in South Africa's Spatial Planning and Land Use
Management Act, 2013 (SPLUMA) 253
Jeannie van Wyk and Mark Oranje
11 Good governance and flood management in Jakarta 277
Natalia Yeti Puspita
12 Racing to defeat climate change on reluctant roads:
autonomous vehicles, urban climate resilience, and legal reform 306
Tracy Hresko Pearl
13 Shared mobility towards urban climate resilience in the
city of Johannesburg 326
Angela van der Berg and Anél du Plessis
14 Urban warfare: expanding legal approaches to urban
climate policy in the United States 359
M Alexander Pearl
Index
