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Social Science Urban

Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

edited by Hoi L. Kong & Tanya Monforte

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2022
Category
Urban, Geography, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781487542986
    Publish Date
    Aug 2022
    List Price
    $30.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781487542993
    Publish Date
    Aug 2022
    List Price
    $30.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781487542979
    Publish Date
    Oct 2022
    List Price
    $80.00

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The inaction of nation states and international bodies has posed significant risks to the environment. By contrast, cities are sites of action and innovation. In Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance, contributors researching in the areas of law, urban planning, geography, and philosophy identify approaches for tackling many of the most challenging environmental problems facing cities today.

 

Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance facilitates two strands of dialogue about climate change. First, it integrates legal perspectives into policy debates about urban sustainability and governance, from which law has typically stood apart. Second, it brings case studies from Quebec into a rare conversation with examples drawn from elsewhere in Canada.

 

The collection proposes humane and inclusive processes for arriving at effective policy outcomes. Some chapters examine governance mechanisms that reconcile clashes of incommensurable values and resolve conflicts about collective interests. Other chapters provide platforms for social movements that have faced obstacles to communicating to a broad public. The collection’s proposals respond to drastic changes in urban environments. Some changes are imminent. Others are upon us already. All threaten the present and future well-being of urban communities.

About the authors

Hoi L. Kong holds the Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, P.C., UBC Professorship in Constitutional Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia.

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Tanya Monforte is an assistant professor of Political Science at Concordia University.

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