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Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change de Joan Fitzgerald

Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change

Autor Joan Fitzgerald
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2023

În literatura academică dedicată sustenabilității urbane, observăm o lacună persistentă între politicile simbolice și implementarea tehnologică sistemică. Greenovation vine să umple acest gol, argumentând că „actele de ecologism aleatorii” practicate de multe municipalități sunt insuficiente pentru a contracara criza climatică actuală. Remarcăm cum Joan Fitzgerald transformă conceptul de oraș într-un pat de testare pentru inovație, punând accent pe sectoarele cu cel mai mare impact: clădirile, energia și transportul.

Textul este structurat riguros, oferind o analiză a dezbaterilor economice și politice care guvernează tranziția verde. Din perspectiva experienței de lectură, volumul păstrează un ton pragmatic, fiind susținut de date concrete obținute din interviuri cu experți din peste 20 de metropole europene și nord-americane. Cititorii familiarizați cu Emerald Cities vor aprecia modul în care acest nou volum avansează discuția de la dezvoltarea economică sustenabilă spre o integrare profundă a justiției sociale în politicile de mediu, o temă pe care Joan Fitzgerald o rafinează constant în opera sa.

Spre deosebire de abordarea din Green CITYnomics, care se concentrează pe vulnerabilitatea megacity-urilor din țările în curs de dezvoltare, Greenovation oferă un set de strategii aplicabile pentru liderii urbani din economiile dezvoltate, analizând critic modul în care structurile de guvernare națională pot facilita sau, dimpotrivă, bloca inovația locală. Este o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care infrastructura urbană poate fi recalibrată pentru a preveni daunele climatice irevocabile, fără a ignora echitatea socială.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197651421
ISBN-10: 0197651429
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 20 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 236 x 155 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este indispensabilă pentru studenții la științe politice și planificare urbană, oferind un model teoretic solid pentru „greenovation”. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere clară a mecanismelor prin care tehnologia verde poate fi integrată în infrastructura orașului, învățând cum să conecteze acțiunea climatică cu dreptatea socială, un aspect adesea omis în manualele de politici publice tradiționale.

Despre autor

Joan Fitzgerald este un distins specialist în politici urbane și profesor, recunoscută pentru cercetările sale privind dezvoltarea economică sustenabilă. În lucrările sale anterioare, precum Emerald Cities, ea a explorat modul în care orașele americane preiau conducerea în absența unor politici naționale coerente. Prin Greenovation, publicată la Oxford University Press, Fitzgerald își consolidează poziția de expert în analiza intersecției dintre tehnologia curată, inovația politică și echitatea socială în contextul urban contemporan.

Descriere

Collectively, cities take up a relatively tiny amount of land on the earth, yet they emit 72 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Clearly, cities need to be at the center of any broad effort to reduce climate change.In Greenovation, the eminent urban policy scholar Joan Fitzgerald argues that too many cities are only implementing random acts of greenness that will do little to address the climate crisis. She instead calls for "greenovation"--using the city as a test bed for adopting and perfecting green technologies for more energy--efficient buildings, transportation, and infrastructure more broadly. Fitzgerald contends that while many city mayors cite income inequality as a pressing problem, few cities are connecting climate action and social justice-another aspect of greenovation. Focusing on the biggest producers of greenhouse gases in cities, buildings, energy and transportation, Fitzgerald examines how greenovating cities are reducing emissions overall and lays out an agenda for fostering and implementing urban innovations that can help reverse the path toward irrevocable climate damage. Drawing on interviews with practitioners in more than 20 North American and European cities, she identifies the strategies and policies they are employing and how support from state, provincial and national governments has supported or thwarted their efforts. A uniquely urban-focused appraisal of the economic, political, and social debates that underpin the drive to "go green," Greenovation helps us understand what is arguably the toughest policy problem of our era: the increasing impact of anthropocentric climate change on modern social life.

Recenzii

A timely, focused, insightfully informative, and unique contribution to our on-going national conversation about dealing with our climate-changing environment, Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change is an extraordinary and inspiring read...unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic Contemporary Environmental Policy collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists.
One strength of this book is that the essential complexity of solutions is embraced rather than ignored, making it clear that (1) national and state policies impact what cities are able to do, but cities also retain much control over their own infrastructure, and (2) reducing emissions from urban areas is consistent with, and can be accomplished alongside, other sustainable development goals.
Given the failure of nations to engage the climate crisis at the speed that physics demands, we're going to need to rely on city governments for a lot of heavy lifting. Joan Fitzgerald shows precisely how to harvest beyond the low-hanging fruit: this is a smart book, filled with enough detail to help any planner, and enough vision to inspire any citizen.
The first sentence of the first chapter of this powerful and necessary book immediately establishes the stakes: âCities cover about 3 percent of the land on Earth, yet they produce about 72 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.â These two data points send a strong message to all urban citizens and the mayors who govern over them: implementing the transformative changes necessary for mitigating climate change should begin with us, the residents of cities. Joan Fitzgerald explains to readers where the potential for green policy innovation lies, and how cities across the world have been putting successful policies in place.
Greenovation is the definitive account of the paramount role cities must play in the shift to a sustainable economy. Fitzgerald both describes what leading cities are doing to reduce their emissions, particularly in buildings and transportation, and lays out an agenda for what lagging cities need to do-all the while keeping in mind how national governments need to support the urban climate agenda.
With this meticulously researched and highly readable book, Joan Fitzgerald challenges us to take bolder action on climate justice. It is time to move beyond tokenism to real greenovation that scales up energy efficiency, renewable energy, electric transportation, active mobility, and more. Based on inspirational cases from around the world, Greenovation provides the institutional roadmap that will transform our cities, and thus the planet.
How do North American and European cities lead byÃgreenovatingÃin fast, nimble, and effective ways? In this thoroughly researched and argued book, Fitzgerald issues a clarion call for integrative political action on the linked problems of urban climate change and inequality to create a thriving and more equitable economy.
This work provides a broad perspective on the central role of cities in mitigating climate change... One strength of this book is that the essential complexity of solutions is embraced rather than ignored.
Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change will be an important read for scholars in urban planning, but it also provides interesting insights for researchers in geography and sustainability transitions. In addition, the book is valuable for policy-makers and planners seeking to find inspiration on how to greenovate their cities... I am confident the book will play an important role in future discussions on solutions for the climate crisis.
Greenovation builds upon Fitzgerald's earlier book, Emerald Cities, offering a detailed analysis of green technology to mitigate and perhaps combat rising climate change....Two notable features stand out: her incorporation of racial justice considerations and her targeting of the negative role of China in undercutting North American and European greenovation programs....This is a book that every community activist and city planner concerned to move climate action policies forward should not only have...but should be heavily underlined to highlight its key insights, best practices, and major policy lessons.

Notă biografică

Joan Fitzgerald is Professor of Urban and Public Policy at Northeastern University. She focuses on urban climate action policy, governance, and finance. She is co-authoring her next book on cities and the struggle for climate justice.