ABSTRACT

In the 30 years since the journal Environmental Politics was founded, we have witnessed a profound shift in how we understand climate from its initial framing as global problem, to one that is increasingly understood as transnational, personal, urban, networked, and regional. Charting the rise of climate change’s urban agenda over the past decade, I suggest we are now witnessing a ‘third wave’ of climate urbanism in which the challenge of addressing climate change is recognised as deeply connected to wider issues of sustainable development and social justice. These shifts are in turn shaped by and giving rise to new developments in terms of the form of climate politics, how it is conducted, and where the battle lines over what it means to act politically under conditions of climate change are being drawn. Recognising that the nature of climate urbanism is continually emergent and highly contested will be critical for future work in this field.

摘要

自《环境政治》杂志问世以来的30年中成立之初，我们目睹了我们对气候的理解发生了深刻的转变，从最初的全球问题框架转变为越来越被理解为跨国，个人，城市，网络和区域性气候的问题。总结过去十年来气候变化城市议程的上升趋势，我建议我们现在正在目睹气候城市主义的“第三波”浪潮，其中应对气候变化的挑战被认为与可持续发展和社会正义的广泛问题紧密相关。这些转变反过来由气候政治的形式，进行方式以及在气候变化条件下政治行动的意义所在的战斗线所吸引，并引起了新的发展。