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Our Bandit Future? Cities, Shantytowns, And Climate Change Governance, Colin Crawford
Our Bandit Future? Cities, Shantytowns, And Climate Change Governance, Colin Crawford
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article seeks to begin to define a role for cities and their inhabitants in climate change governance. Part I argues that if there is a failure to take into account global urbanization and its defining characteristics, namely extreme squalor and associated social ills, as a central feature of climate change policy, we face a future where cities will experience sustained and perhaps intractable urban violence and social disintegration, a development that can only hasten the separate but related harms caused by climate change on the world’s human and biological populations. Part II explores some of the consequences of the …
Global Cities And The Governance Of Climate Change: What Is The Role Of Law In Cities?, Heike Schroeder, Harriet Bulkeley
Global Cities And The Governance Of Climate Change: What Is The Role Of Law In Cities?, Heike Schroeder, Harriet Bulkeley
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This Article examines how global cities are governing climate change. Part I of this Article provides an overview of the national and international contexts of urban climate governance focusing on the United Kingdom and the United States. Parts II and III analyze London and Los Angeles, respectively, as examples of global cities. They provide a thorough examination of climate change policies and actions in these two cities, based on approximately thirty in-depth interviews with government, business and civil society representatives during 2007-08, as well as official documents and grey literature. Part IV then examines the modes of governance to understand …
The City And International Law: In Pursuit Of Sustainable Development, Ileana M. Porras
The City And International Law: In Pursuit Of Sustainable Development, Ileana M. Porras
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article argues that the internationalization of cities and the localization of sustainable development have combined to turn cities into the international loci of sustainable development. The author contends that while it is positive that cities are willing to engage in addressing sustainable development and climate change, there are dangers in allowing cities to take on the primary function of defining sustainable development. Problems caused by privatization of city services and the tendency of cities to consider local interests primary in engaging in the trade-offs required by sustainable development are discussed. Finally, the author concludes that sustainable development requires a …
What Local Climate Change Plans Can Teach Us About City Power, Katherine A. Trisolini
What Local Climate Change Plans Can Teach Us About City Power, Katherine A. Trisolini
Fordham Urban Law Journal
Discussions of city power have long focused on cities’ power relative to higher levels of government and to each other. The diffuse causes of climate change offer an opportunity to revisit the question of city power by focusing more closely on the intended object of influence. Although these two perspectives on power will at times overlap, they are not identical. If we consider greenhouse gas emissions as the target, cities can employ their relatively minor powers to substantial effect and many of them appear to be trying to do so. But consideration of cities’ climate change policies alters the usual …
Cities And Accessibility: The Potential For Carbon Reductions And The Need For National Leadership, Keith Bartholomew
Cities And Accessibility: The Potential For Carbon Reductions And The Need For National Leadership, Keith Bartholomew
Fordham Urban Law Journal
This article begins by outlining the elements that should be included in the framework for understanding how people interact with their built environments. Part II describes how the framework might be made operational through the use of an emerging technique called land-use transportation scenario planning. Part III assesses how well land-use transportation scenario planning fits within the dictates and limits of U.S. transportation law. The analysis ultimately reveals that it holds substantial promise as a tool that could lead to meaningful cuts in carbon emissions.