Addressing the Climate Crisis: Local Action in Theory and Practice (Hardcover, 2021)

Section 1: Community and place in local climate praxis.- 1.Local climate praxis in practice: Community climate action in Belfast.- 2.Putting the ‘Place’ in place-based climate action: Insights from climate adaptation initiatives across Scotland.- 3.A commoner’s climate movement.- 4.The Envirolution Revolution: Raising awareness of climate change creatively through free and accessible community engagement festivals.- Section 2: The spaces of local climate action.- 5.How have climate emergency declarations helped local government action to decarbonise?.- 6.Developing a carbon baseline to support multi-stakeholder, multi-level climate governance at county level.- 7.Power in practice: reflecting on the first year of the Edinburgh Climate Commission.- 8.How can ‘ordinary’ cities become climate pioneers?.- Section 3: The agents of local climate action.- 9.Effective communication on local adaptation: considerations for providers of climate change advice and support.- 10.Diversifying the private sector in local climate commissions.- 11.Citizens’ assemblies and juries on climate change: Lessons from their use in practice.- 12.Rebecca WellsUniversities as living labs for climate praxis.