One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon

Bridge, Gary (Herausgeber:in) / Watson, Sophie (Herausgeber:in) / Droege, Peter (Autor:in)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 108-120

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

25.02.2011

13 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch10

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)

Elektronische Ressource

Englisch

one hundred tons to Armageddon ‐ cities combatting carbon , sustainability to survivability, understanding ‐ contemporary urban system as anachronism , Carbon city, City of Gas ‐ atmosphere oversaturated with waste, viability of human life supporting as benchmark , urban energy autonomy path , pursuit of total renewable energy reliance ‐ useful , global system, extracting and marketing ‐ toxic fossil and nuclear fuels built on a central phenomenon , radical transformation of city planning ‐ development theory in the making , call for carbon stabilization ‐ urban policy, boosted by International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) , future of sustainable urban change , understanding embodied and imported fossil energy ‐ in assigning responsibility to consumers