The Urbanization of Nature underneath and beyond ‘the city’

Reflections on the book Turning up the Heat: Urban Political Ecology for a climate emergency

Autori

  • Maria Kaika
  • Roger Keil
  • Tait Mandler
  • Yannis Tzaninis

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562/18630

Parole chiave:

Urban Political Ecology, urbanizzazione, cambiamento climatico

Abstract

In questo articolo descriviamo l’impatto che il campo dell’ecologia politica urbana ha sul mondo accademico e nell’elaborazione delle politiche; e sosteniamo che questo corpus di studi ha una posizione unica per affrontare alcune delle questioni politiche urgenti relative all’urbanizzazione e al cambiamento climatico. Descriviamo le principali epistemologie, ontologie e metodologie dell’ecologia politica urbana ed esploriamo in che misura queste possano affrontare il disastro sistemico che chiamiamo ‘cambiamento climatico’. Il nostro obiettivo principale è dimostrare che la ricerca accademica può e deve rimanere rilevante per la politica di un pianeta che si sta surriscaldando.

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2023-12-31

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Kaika, M., Keil, R., Mandler, T., & Tzaninis, Y. (2023). The Urbanization of Nature underneath and beyond ‘the city’: Reflections on the book Turning up the Heat: Urban Political Ecology for a climate emergency. Tracce Urbane. Rivista Italiana Transdisciplinare Di Studi Urbani, 10(14), 41–59. https://doi.org/10.13133/2532-6562/18630