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Climate Change and Urban Development
Lessons from Cape Town
Editors: M New, D Scott & H Davies
The City of Cape Town (CoCT), a local municipality in the developing country of South Africa, has begun to integrate climate change into its urban policy- making. This book presents initiatives at the local government scale in response to climate change, from environmental resource management, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy management to spatial planning. It shows how the municipality has shifted from ‘business as usual’ and mainstreamed climate change in addressing its development and climate change mandates, and describes the challenges that were encountered in making these shifts.
The authors of this book believe that a new way of creating knowledge is needed, one that is socially embedded and involves non-academic actors in the knowledge construction. To this end, municipal officials and academics worked collaboratively in a process of mutual learning to co-produce knowledge and co-write their chapters. This hybrid process, where practitioner experience is coupled with an academic perspective, has produced an ‘insider’ view of urban development and climate change governance through the lens of theory.
The aim of the book is to present the city of Cape Town as a leader in climate change innovations and hence a model of sustainable urban transition for other cities of the Global South.
Recommended for
Scholars, practitioners and general informed readers interested in Development and Climate Change, Governance, Innovations in cities in the Global South; Environmental Studies, Development Studies, Climate Science, Human Geography, Urban Studies, Organisational Development, Science and Technology Studies and Sociology.
About the editors
Mark New is Director of the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) at the University of Cape Town, and Professor of International Development at the University of East Anglia, UK. He sits on the South African Global Change Science Committee and the Africa Future Earth Science Committee.
Helen Davies is Head of Environmental Policy and Strategy at the City of Cape Town.
Dianne Scott is Senior Researcher: Climate and Fractal Research Projects, at the African Centre of Cities, UCT, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.