Urban Climate Resilience

Urban Climate Resilience

The Role of Law

Verschuuren, Jonathan; van der Berg, Angela

Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

09/2022

402

Dura

Inglês

9781803922492

15 a 20 dias

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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
Esme 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 Montreal 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 Anel du Plessis
14 Urban warfare: expanding legal approaches to urban
climate policy in the United States 359
M Alexander Pearl

Index
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Climate law; climate change and cities; climate change adaptation; climate resilience and law; planning law; urbanization; urban sustainability