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The right to the city
Hodson, Mike Marvin, Simon
Hodson, Mike
Marvin, Simon
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Hodson, Mike
Marvin, Simon
Marvin, Simon
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"Cities are critical sites in our understanding of both energy and climate change. They are often simultaneously represented as being a signifi cant part of the ‘cause’ of climate change, since urban areas and their inhabitants may be responsible for up to 75 per cent of global human energy consumption and carbon emissions; as foremost among the ‘victims’ of climate change, particularly the vulnerable coastal megacities of the global South; and, as key sites of ‘innovative responses’, such as through the actions of the representatives of large cities in the C40 network.1 All cities face the critical challenge of how to ensure they can guarantee their long-term ecological and economic survival in a context of human-made global ecological change – that implies greater uncertainty about climate change and the availability of critical resources such as food, water and energy.[...]", p. 70
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2009-10
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