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Cities Demanding the Earth
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25 April 2020

This urgent book brings our cities to the fore in understanding the human input into climate change. The demands we are making on nature by living in cities has reached a crisis point and unless we make significant changes to address it, the prognosis is terminal consumption.
Providing a radical new argument that integrates global understandings of making nature and making cities, the authors move beyond current policies of mitigation and adaption and pose the challenge of urban stewardship to tackle the crisis.
Their new way of thinking re-orients possibilities for environmental policy and calls for us to reinvent our cities as spaces for activism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Environmental policy and protocols, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Social impact of environmental issues
Peter J. Taylor is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Loughborough and Northumbria University.
Geoff O’Brien is an Emeritus scholar at Northumbria University.
Phil O’Keefe (1948-2020) was Emeritus Professor of Economic Development and Environmental Management at Northumbria University.
Declarations: Root and Branch Unthinking
Alternate: Jane Jacobs’ Legacy
Inside Out: Twelve Antithesis Authenticating Cities
Reset: Anthropogenic Climate Change Is Urban Not Modern
Action: Can We Stop Terminal Consumption?