Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Ohio State Law Journal Online
Abstract
The remainder of this short comment moves away from the question of why subnational jurisdictions are acting to limit climate change. It focuses instead on a question implicitly raised by Thinking Globally’s excellent—and all too rare— thick descriptions of subnational efforts to limit climate change in China, Japan, and the United States: How are leading subnational jurisdictions in the three largest economies in the world seeking to limit climate change? In the book Repowering Cities, political scientist Professor Sara Hughes suggests that the question of how cities are seeking to mitigate climate change has received less scholarly attention than why cities are acting, so it warrants more analysis. Although Thinking Globally is framed as addressing the “why” question, the fascinating descriptions that it offers of subnational and national efforts in Asia and the U.S. to limit climate change suggest some interesting patterns about the ways these jurisdictions are approaching decarbonization.
First Page
63
Volume
83
Publication Date
2022
Recommended Citation
Katrina M. Wyman,
From Why to How Subnational Jurisdictions Are Mitigating Climate Change,
83
Ohio State Law Journal Online
63
(2022).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/1496
