Cities Responding to Climate Change Copenhagen, Stockholm and Tokyo /

• Main Author: Jones, Stephen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Human geography.; Environmental policy.; Sociology, Urban.; Urban geography.; Climate change.; Human Geography.; Environmental Policy.; Urban Studies/Sociology.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Environmental Politics.

This book explores the climate policy approaches established by various city governments. It details the strategies, plans and initiatives that have so far been designed to both mitigate and adapt to the impacts of global warming. In doing so, it considers the implications of the actions taken by le...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. City Governments and Climate Change
• 3. City Governments, Climate Change and the Performance Agenda
• 4. Performance Management: An Analytical Framework
• 5. City of Stockholm
• 6. City of Copenhagen
• 7. Tokyo Municipal Government
• 8. Synthesis and Conclusions.