Housing and the (re)configuration of energy provision in Cape Town and São Paulo: Making space for a progressive urban climate politics?

Political Geography

Volumn 40, Issue , 2014, Pages 25-34

  Bulkeley, Harriet ^a   Luque Ayala, Andrés ^a   Silver, Jonathan ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cities; Climate change; Global South; Governmentality; Housing; Infrastructure networks; Retrofit

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; HOUSING; INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN CLIMATE;

BRAZIL; CAPE TOWN; SAO PAULO [BRAZIL]; SAO PAULO [SAO PAULO (STT)]; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 84899522538     PISSN: 09626298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.02.003     Document Type: Article

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