Cities and Environmental Change

‘Part of the fascination of urbanization is the ability of urban places to simultaneously be a source of crisis, and also its solutions. Solecki’s analysis brings this tension to the fore. He helps the reader to scrutinise trajectories of urban risk and resilience as expressions of imbalance in power, knowledge and action. This is an important book for all those interested in the progressive potential - and wary of the regressive danger - of cities: students, scholars, policy makers and committed city dwellers. This is a guide to understanding the forces shaping who wins and losses (including the non-human), in struggles for sustainability across the urbanized world we are making together.’ Mark Pelling, University College London

William Solecki (Ph.D. Geography) has studied the interaction of urbanization and climate change for almost thirty years. He has served as an author on several Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessments and is a co-founder of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN). He is a Fellow of the American Association of Geographers.