@article{1476846,
      recid = {1476846},
      author = {Anton, Barbara,  and Berg, Hanne J. van den,  and Biswas,  Tirtha,  and Cannon, Clare E. B.,  and Chu, Eric K.,  and  Coughlin, John J.,  and Coughlin, John J.,  and  Długosz-Stroetges, Patrycja,  and Feng, He,  and Ganguly,  Tanushree,  and Hartog, Harry den,  and Kelly, Frank J.,   and Kuldeep, Neeraj,  and Lifshitz, Yael R.,  and Lin,  Alvin,  and Minelli, Adalene,  and Natekal, Asiya N.,  and  Ohlhorst, Dörte,  and Savarani, Sara,  and Schreurs,  Miranda A.,  and Spiegel-Feld, Danielle,  and Spiegel-Feld,  Danielle,  and Tao, Hu,  and Vijayaraghavan, Vidya,  and  Wyman, Katrina Miriam,  and Wyman, Katrina Miriam,  and  Xianqiang, Mao,  and Youkai, Xing,  and Yubing, Gao,  and  Zavadski, Katie,  and Zeben, Josephine van, },
      title = {Global Sustainable Cities : City Governments and Our  Environmental Future /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {Perspectives from worldwide experts on how major cities  across the globe are responding to the major environmental  threats of our time, including global climate change Over  half of the world's population now lives in cities, and  this share is expected to increase in the coming decades.  With growing urbanization, cities and their residents face  substantial environmental challenges such as higher  temperatures, droughts, wildfires, and increased flooding.  In response to these pressing challenges, some cities have  begun to develop local environmental regulations that  supplement national and environmental laws. In so doing,  cities have stepped into a role that has been historically  dominated by higher levels of government.Global Sustainable  Cities takes stock of the policies that have been  implemented by cities around the world in recent years in  several key areas: water, air pollution, greenhouse gas  emissions, and climate adaptation. It examines the  advantages-and potential drawbacks-of allowing cities to  assume a significant role in environmental regulation,  given the legal and political constraints in which cities  operate.The contributors present a series of case studies  of the actions that seven leading cities-Abu Dhabi,  Beijing, Berlin, Delhi, London, New York, and Shanghai-are  taking to improve their environments and adapt to climate  change. The first volume of its kind, Global Sustainable  Cities is a critical comparative assessment of the actions  that major cities in the global North and South are taking  to advance sustainability.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1476846},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479805716.001.0001},
}