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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Climate action planning"”.
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Leading Climate Action Planning: A Case Study of Local Community Practices
<p>Given the increasing rate of anthropogenic climate change and the resulting climate impacts that communities around the world will be coping with over the next century, it is becoming increasingly important that communities, cities, and regions begin to develop climate action plans that will …
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How Are American Cities Planning for Climate Change? An Evaluation of Climate Action Planning in Chicago, IL and Portland, OR
<p>Contending with a changing climate presents a necessary push for planning. Although climate change is considered a global environmental problem requiring a global commitment and trans-national action, more and more, policymakers are recognizing the vital need for action at the local level. In …
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Beyond Carbon Toward Liberation: An Urban Bioethical Case for a Socially and Environmentally Just University Health System
… to center equity and the lived experience of climate injustice in urban communities? Through the application of urban bioethical principles and examination of a public state-related university and its health system in a major U.S. city, I argue that the higher education institutional climate …
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Leadership strategies employed in the public sector for promoting urban climate transition: the case of Cape Town, South Africa
… a global compact between nations to act on climate change, cities have emerged as interesting locations for studying climate leadership due to the failure at the national scale to translate adequate climate actions to meet the goals set. Cities have served as important agents in governance …
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Climate change & society in conflicted landscapes: Cases of Srinagar (Kashmir) and Jerusalem (West Bank, Palestine)
Climate change has become an important part of social, political and economic policy post the Paris Climate Agreement of 2016. The Agreement recognizes the urgency for action at a global scale. Major superpowers, developing countries and a host of nations in-between are parties to this agreement. …