Urbanization and Climate Co-Benefits: Implementation of win-win interventions in cities

by Christopher Doll (Editor), Jose Puppim de Oliveira (Editor)

Overview

Urban areas are increasingly contributing to climate change while also suffering many of its impacts. Moreover, many cities, particularly in developing countries, continue to struggle to provide services, infrastructure and socio-economic opportunities. How do we achieve the global goals on climate change and also make room for allowing global urban development? Increasing levels of awareness and engagement on climate change at the local level, coupled with recent global agreements on climate and development goals, as well as the New Urban Agenda emerging from Habitat III, present an unprecedented opportunity to radically rethink how we develop and manage our cities.

Urbanization and Climate Co-Benefits examines the main opportunities and challenges to the implementation of a co-benefits approach in urban areas. Drawing on the results of empirical research carried out in Brazil, China, Indonesia, South Africa, India and Japan, the book is divided into two parts. The first part uses a common framework to analyse co-benefits across the urban sectors. The second part examines the tools and legal and governance perspectives at the local and international level that can help in planning for co-benefits.

This book will be of great interest to students, practitioners and scholars of urban studies, climate/development policy and environmental studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317357704
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/24/2017
Series:	Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Christopher N.H. Doll is a research fellow at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability in Tokyo, Japan. He is active across many areas of sustainability research including urban development, biodiversity governance and the diffusion of low carbon technologies. He holds a Masters and PhD in remote sensing from the University of London.

Jose A. Puppim de Oliveira is a faculty member at the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV/EAESP and FGV/EBAPE), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPEAD-UFRJ) and Fudan University (Shanghai). He is also a researcher affiliated to the United Nations University (UNU-IIGH) in Kuala Lumpur and MIT Joint Program on Science and Policy of Global Change, Cambridge (USA).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Transport

a. Delhi, India: Governance-Related Opportunities and Barriers towards Effectiveness of Co-Benefits Policies: The Case of Delhi Metro Project

b. Curitiba: The intended/unintended co-benefits of investing in public transport c. Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Technological change and market reform for sustainable urban transport d. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: The Bus Rapid System

3. Land-use

a. eThekwini Municipality (Durban), South Africa: Greenspace Planning for Climate Co-benefits

b. Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Inter-governmental Cooperation and Land Use Coordination by Joint-Secretariat 4. Buildings a. Shanghai, China & Yokohama, Japan: Energy Efficiency at the Building and District Scale

b. Tokyo, Japan: Low-carbon policy for buildings

5. Energy

a. Kawasaki, Japan: - Revealing co-benefits of energy from environmental policies

b. Megaurban China: Air pollution co-benefits of carbon mitigation in four Chinese cities c. Baoshan District (Shanghai), China: Co-benefits in the industry sector

d. Teixi District (Shenyang), China

6. Waste

a. Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Potential Co-benefits of Community Based Solid Waste Management b. Suzhou, China: Generation and Distribution of Waste Management Co-benefits c. Surat, India: Urban Innovation and Climate Co-benefits in Municipal Sewage Management
7. Recognizing and Rewarding Urban Co-benefits: A Survey of International Climate Mechanisms and Informal Networks

8. Law for Climate Co-benefits

9. Quantitative Tools for assessing co-benefits

10. Decision-support Tools for Climate Co-benefits Governance

11. A systems approach for health/environment/climate co-benefits in cities

Editorial Reviews

"Cities are playing an increasingly large role in environmental policy making. Urbanization and Climate Co-benefits comprehensively lays out how cities can use the co-benefits approach to plan for environmentally responsible cities, which meets the needs of both people and the planet. The innovative structure of the book, combining theory and planning as well as on the ground experiences makes it highly relevant to both scholars and practitioners at a time when the future of cities is recognized as crucial for global sustainability." – Kazuhiko Takemoto, Director, United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability, Japan

"Urbanization and Climate Co-benefits provides much needed insights through examination of both the technical and non-technical aspects of co-benefits. The book stimulates the reader to think about how such an approach may be implemented across the urban sectors. This book is a very timely contribution as discussions on co-benefits become increasingly prominent at all levels of policymaking." – Shobhakar Dhakal, Associate Professor, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

"This book offers a framework to understand climate co-benefits in cities based on in-depth empirical research carried out by an interdisciplinary team of researchers. It offers an important guide to advance our knowledge on how to develop sustainable cities and to design a road map for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and implementing the New Urban Agenda adopted at the 2016 Habitat III Conference in Quito." – Govindan Parayil, Mark & Melody Teppola Presidential Distinguished Professor, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, USA, Former Vice-

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