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Cool Cities

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Cool Cities

By Benjamin R. Barber

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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 on sustainability. In this book, renowned political theorist Benjamin R. Barber describes how cities, by assuming important aspects of sovereignty, can take the lead from faltering nation states in fighting climate change. Barber argues...Show more

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9780300224207

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published year

2017

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1

Original title

Cool Cities

Format

Hardcover

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