The Globalisation of Urban Governance (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Aust, Helmut Philipp; Du Plessis, Anél

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Fifteen original contributions collectively examine how this global vision has been developed on a conceptual level, how it plays out in various areas of urban governance and how it is implemented in varying local contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351049245
• Artikelnr.: 54818421

Autorenporträt

Helmut Philipp Aust is Professor of Law at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Previously, he was a Senior Research Fellow at Humboldt University Berlin (2011-2016). He was also Visiting Professor at the University of Konstanz (2016) and Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre of International Law, University of Cambridge (2008) and at the Institute of International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School (2014/2015). His research interests lie in the fields of public international law and comparative constitutional law. He is the author of Complicity and the Law of State Responsibility (2011) and of Das Recht der globalen Stadt (2017). He has also co-edited the collection The Interpretation of International Law by Domestic Courts (with Georg Nolte, 2016). Since May 2017, he is Co-Chairman of a new study group of the International Law Association on "The Role of Cities in International Law". Anél du Plessis is Professor of Law and the SARChI Chair in Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability (CLES) at the North-West University (NWU), South Africa. She is author and editor of various publications, including Environmental Law and Local Government in South Africa (2015) and Fulfilment of South Africa's Constitutional Environmental Right in the Local Government Sphere (2009). Her research focuses environmental-, local government and different aspects of constitutional law and governance. She is member of the Executive Committee of the Environmental Law Association of South Africa, project coordinator for a long-standing local government capacity building project of the NWU and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and serves on the Teaching Committee of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. She is a rated researcher of South Africa's National Research Foundation and an alumnus of the scholarship programmes of the DAAD, Fulbright and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 1. Introduction: The Globalization of Urban Governance - Legal
Perspectives on Sustainable Development Goal 11 [Helmut Philipp Aust And
Anél Du Plessis] 2. Including Cities in the 2030 Agenda - A Review of The
Post-2015 Process "Cities Are Where the Battle for Sustainable Development
Will Be Won or Lost." [Noora Arajärvi] 3. International Institutions and
The City: Towards A Comparative Law of Local Governance [Michael Riegner]
4. City Limits: Sustainable Urban Governance in Planetary Infrastructural
Regimes [Boris Vormann] Part 2 5. Funding and Good Financial Governance as
Imperatives for Cities' Pursuit of SDG 11 [Oliver Fuo] 6. War And Peace In
The City [Cindy Wittke] 7. Ensuring Access to Public Space As A Dimension
Of "Safe Cities": The Role Of UN Entities In Shaping The Global Urban
Governance Agenda [Hannah Birkenkötter] 8. The Challenges of Cultural
Diversity for Safe and Sustainable Cities [Francois Venter] Part 3 9.
Global Goals and Urban Development: The Territorial Effects of Implementing
the MDGs In Brazil [M. Cecilia Oliveira] 10. City Regions in Pursuit of SDG
11: Institutionalising Multilevel Cooperation in Gauteng, South Africa
[Jaap De Visser] 11. The Pursuit of SDG 11 Through the Lens of Integrated
Development Planning [Angela van der Berg] 12. Governance in The Smart
City: Sketches of A Research Programme in Legal Theory [Peter Gailhofer]
13. The Tensions Between Local Resilience-Building and Transnational
Action; US-Mexican Cooperation in Crime Affected Communities In Northern
Mexico, And What This Tells About Global Urban Governance [Alejandro
Rodiles] 14. Conclusion: Summary of Observations And Pointers For Future
Research [Anél Du Plessis And Helmut Philipp Aust]