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Cities and climate change mitigation: Economic opportunities and governance challenges in Asia
- Source :
- Cities. 54:11-19
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Cities are central to the fight against climate change, but the IPCC recently noted that many cities — and particularly those in the developing world — lack the institutional, financial and technical capacities needed to switch to low emission development paths. Based on detailed case studies of three Asian cities, this paper finds that the adoption of low emission development strategies (LEDS) at the urban level could be economically attractive. However, it also argues that without a coordinated multi-level, cross-sectoral governance framework these opportunities for low carbon urban development are likely to be left unexploited. As these governance conditions are frequently not in place, we argue that these case study cities, and cities in similar contexts, are likely to miss even the economically attractive low carbon development opportunities and become increasingly locked in to higher cost, higher carbon development paths. Due to their growing size and importance, we conclude that the presence or absence of governance arrangements that enable the adoption of low carbon development strategies in Asian cities will have global implications for climate change.
- Subjects :
- Economic growth
Asia
Mitigation
Sociology and Political Science
Natural resource economics
Climate
020209 energy
Developing country
Climate change
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Development
01 natural sciences
7. Clean energy
12. Responsible consumption
Urban planning
11. Sustainability
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Cities
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Governance
Corporate governance
1. No poverty
Carbon
Urban Studies
Climate change mitigation
13. Climate action
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
Low emission
Business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 02642751
- Volume :
- 54
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cities
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....488b052b98cd7d415b9a10a2ce04ce43