TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barber,Benjamin R.
TI  - Cool cities: urban sovereignty and the fix for global warming
SN  - 9780300224207
U1  - 363.73874 BA CO 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Global warming
KW  - City planning
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Growth
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - A pointed argument that cities-not nation-states-can and must take the lead in fighting climate change. Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent nations have grown increasingly unable to cooperate effectively, even on the urgent issue of sustainability. Can cities do better? Benjamin R. Barber argues that with more than half the world's population, 80 percent of both its GDP and its greenhouse gas emissions, and a common will to cooperate, they can. In this compelling sequel to If Mayors Ruled the World, Barber assesses both broad principles and specific strategies like fracking bans, walkable cities, above-ground mining of precious resources, energy and heating drawn from garbage incineration, downtown wind turbines, and skyscrapers built from wood. He shows how cities working together on climate change can find common measures by which to evaluate the radically different policies they pursue. This is a book for a world in which combating climate change is about nothing less than cities' survival
UR  - https://uowd.box.com/s/i39ettqcup2pg9qlo98r9b1pdp6nmes1
ER  -