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"Urban Climate Justice is a groundbreaking volume that centers the racial, capitalist, and settler colonial roots of climate injustice, while also forging pathways through abolitionist and actionable futures. A must for those invested in urban and environmental justice, this book tells us that, ultimately, transformative politics lie in a radical politics of redistribution, repair, and care.--Malini Ranganathan ""coauthor of Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City"" Urban Climate Justice offers a cutting-edge account of the intersections among urban justice and climate justice through a series of highly detailed, nuanced, and captivating case studies. The collection encompasses various new intellectual avenues that, as a whole, uncover how the contemporary climate challenge is embedded in a much wider set of political, economic and social infrastructures.--Stefan Bouzarovski ""author of Energy Poverty: (Dis)Assembling Europe's Infrastructural Divide"" Cities are both sites of climate injustice and also potential spaces for revolutionary changes and equitable coexistence. Urban Climate Justice is a critically important book that invites, encourages, and showcases transformative pathways for more-just urban futures. In its careful curation of transnational case studies of climate urbanism, interdisciplinary theorizations, and praxis of grounded collaborations, the book demonstrates how climate justice and urban justice are intertwined and hold possibilities for secure, equal, and resilient futures on a changing planet.--Farhana Sultana ""coeditor of The Right to Water: Politics, Governance, and Social Struggles"""

Cities are both sites of climate injustice and also potential spaces for revolutionary changes and equitable coexistence. Urban Climate Justice is a critically important book that invites, encourages, and showcases transformative pathways for more-just urban futures. In its careful curation of transnational case studies of climate urbanism, interdisciplinary theorizations, and praxis of grounded collaborations, the book demonstrates how climate justice and urban justice are intertwined and hold possibilities for secure, equal, and resilient futures on a changing planet.--Farhana Sultana coeditor of The Right to Water: Politics, Governance, and Social Struggles

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Jennifer L. Rice is associate professor of geography and affiliate faculty at the Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia. Joshua Long is professor of environmental studies at Southwestern University. Anthony Levenda is the director of the Center for Climate Action and Sustainability and a member of the faculty at the Evergreen State College.

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