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Cities demanding the Earth : a new understanding of the climate emergency / Peter J. Taylor, Geoff O'Brien and Phil O'Keefe.

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Unless we make drastic changes, the climate damage that we are causing by living in cities will result in terminal consumption. Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adapti...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Authors: Taylor, Peter J. (Peter James), 1944- (Author), O'Brien, Geoff (Author), O'Keefe, Philip (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
City planning > Environmental aspects.
Urban policy > Environmental aspects.
City planning > Environmental aspects
Urban policy > Environmental aspects
Table of Contents:
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • About the Authors
  • Preface
  • 1. Declarations: Root and Branch Unthinking
  • 2. Alternate: Jane Jacobs' legacy
  • 3. Inside Out: Fourteen Antitheses Authenticating Cities
  • 4. Reset: Anthropogenic Climate Change Is Urban, not Modern
  • 5. Action: Can We Stop Terminal Consumption?
  • References
  • Appendix: Primer on Climate Change Policy
  • Index.

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