Repowering Cities - 9781501740411

Repowering CitiesGoverning Climate Change Mitigation in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto\nAuthor(s): Sara Hughes\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501740411, 978-1501740411\nSynopsis\nThe conceptualization and execution of Repowering Cities are terrific, and provides readers with a deep understanding of why, how, and to what effect cities have mobilized to mitigate the effects of climate [url] J. Rich, Emory University, coauthor of Collaborative Governance for Urban Revitalization\n\n City governments are rapidly becoming society's problem solvers. As Sara Hughes shows, nowhere is this more evident than in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto, where the cities' governments are taking on the challenge of addressing climate change.\n\n Repowering Cities focuses on the specific issue of reducing urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and develops a new framework for distinguishing analytically .