Urban Climate Resilience

Edited by Angela van der Berg, Acting Director, Global Environmental Law Centre and Senior Lecturer, University of Western Cape, South Africa and Jonathan Verschuuren, Professor of International and European Environmental Law, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

• Contents:Foreword by Gianluca Crispi xiv1 Introduction to climate resilient cities and the law 1Angela van der Berg and Jonathan Verschuuren2 The role of international law in enhancing urban climateresilience 20Esmé Shirlow3 Legislating for urban climate resilience: the case of Amsterdam 44Sol Maria Halleck Vega and Josephine van Zeben4 Indian cities’ climate resilience: what role for transnationalenvironmental law? 70Tuula Honkonen5 Enabling urban climate action in Accra, Ghana: policypathways and advances toward urban climate resilience 104Michael Addaney6 Resilience justice and adaptive law in European cities 124Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold and Tiago de Melo Cartaxo7 Room available: an overview of the literature on urbanprivate property adaptation law 150Joris van Laarhoven8 Strategic adaptation to climate change: a legal comparativestudy of Lyon and Montréal with a focus on urban heat islands 191Emma Novel9 Advancing climate resilience in US cities through green infrastructure by leveraging their dual roles as regulator and regulated under the US Clean Water Act 221Robert Weinstock10 The climate change mitigation and adaptation imperativein South Africa’s Spatial Planning and Land UseManagement Act, 2013 (SPLUMA) 253Jeannie van Wyk and Mark Oranje11 Good governance and flood management in Jakarta 277Natalia Yeti Puspita12 Racing to defeat climate change on reluctant roads:autonomous vehicles, urban climate resilience, and legal reform 306Tracy Hresko Pearl13 Shared mobility towards urban climate resilience in thecity of Johannesburg 326Angela van der Berg and Anél du Plessis14 Urban warfare: expanding legal approaches to urbanclimate policy in the United States 359M Alexander PearlIndex

‘Urban form, function and governance must urgently adapt in and for a new normal where disasters, crises and other socio-economic stressors are no longer temporary states of exception. Through its rich engagement with how laws that underlie, structure and enable resilient urban life are made, implemented and lived within an array of cities over the world, this volume constitutes an integral theoretical building block of urban adaptation and resilience.’