1. Introduction Part 1 2. The Role of Cities in Technological Transitions: Analytical Clarifications and Historical Examples 3. Governing Urban Low Carbon Transitions 4. The Carbon Calculus and Transitions in Urban Politics and Political Theory 5. Can Cities Shape Socio-Technical Transitions and How Would We Know If They Were? Part 2 6. Urban Energy Transitions in Chinese Cities 7. The ‘Eco-Cities’ Freiburg and Graz: The Social Dynamics of Pioneering Urban Energy and Climate Governance 8. The Rise of Post-Nnetworked Cities in Europe? Recombining Infrastructural, Ecological and Urban Transformations in Low-Carbon Transitions 9. Living Laboratories For Sustainability: Exploring The Politics and Epistemology of Urban Transition 10. Municipal Bureaucracies and Integrated Urban Transitions to a Low Carbon Future 11. Community-led Urban Transitions and Resilience: Performing Transition Towns in a City 12. Building Liveable Cities: Urban Low Impact Developments as Low Carbon Solutions? 13. Conclusions
Harriet Bulkeley is a Professor at the Department of Geography, and
Deputy Director of Durham Energy Institute, Durham University. Her
research interests focuses on the nature and politics of
environmental governance and on climate change and urban
sustainability. She is co-author (with Michele Betsill) of Cities
and Climate Change (Routledge, 2003), and currently holds an ESRC
Climate Change Leadership Fellowship and a Philip Leverhulme Prize
for Geography.
Vanesa Castán Broto is a Lecturer at the Faculty of the Built
Environment, University College London. Her research interests
focuses on how technology and environmental knowledge mediate the
relationship between society and the environment. She has an
inter-disciplinary background in engineering and social
sciences.
Mike Hodson is Associate Director and Senior Research Fellow at the
SURF Centre, University of Salford. His research
interests focus on urban and regional transitions to
low-carbon economies, the ways in which this may or may not happen
and understandings of the lessons to be learned from such
processes. He has developed projects funded by the European
Commission, UK research councils, sub-national government and
through private consultancy.
Simon Marvin is Carillion Chair of Low Carbon Cities, Professor at
the Department of Geography and Deputy Director of Durham Energy
Institute, Durham University. He is an expert on the changing
relations between neighbourhoods, cities, regions and
infrastructure networks in a period of resource constraint,
institutional restructuring and climate change. Simon’s research
has been funded by the ESRC, EPSRC, international research
foundations, the European Commission, commercial funders and many
public agencies. He has co-authored of three
internationally leading books on cities and infrastructure.
"It is obvious that cities play a major role in climate change as both sources of problems and sites for solutions. What is less obvious is how to understand processes of urban transformation systematically, and how to frame analysis and practice in ways that offer hope for governing cities along low carbon pathways. This excellent volume, with contributions from leading scholars, puts key considerations on the table, and illustrates how social science can help address that governance challenge." – Adrian Smith, SPRU - Science & Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex"
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