Cool Cities : Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Politics Not Science -- PART ONE: MAKING POLITICS WORK FOR SCIENCE -- 1 The Social Contract and the Rights of Cities -- 2 The Devolution Revolution and the Politics of COP 21 -- 3 Climate Change in the Anthropocene -- 4 The Facts Are Mute, Money Talks -- 5 Privatization and Market Fundamentalism -- 6 Political Institutions Old and New: Cities Not Nation- States -- 7 The Road to Global Governance -- 8 Climate Justice: Making Sustainability and Resilience Complementary -- 9 The End of Sovereignty Redux: A Global Parliament of Mayors -- PART TWO: MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK FOR POLITICS -- 10 Common Principles and Urban Action -- 11 The Politics of Commensurability and the Challenge of Trust -- 12 City Sovereignty and the Need for Urban Networks -- 13 A Practical Climate Action Agenda -- 14 Exemplary Cities -- 15 Trust Among Cities: An Index of Commensurability -- 16 Realizing the Urban Climate Agenda -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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