City Leaders for Sustainable Futures: Portraits of Visionary Urban Changemakers
暫譯: 可持續未來的城市領袖：願景城市變革者的肖像
Oke, Cathy, Verbeeck, Jorn
- 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
- 出版日期: 2026-06-02
- 售價: $1,490
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,415
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 210
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 9819595436
- ISBN-13: 9789819595433
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管理與領導 Management-leadership
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商品描述
This open access book takes readers inside the minds and hearts of twenty urban visionaries transforming urban and rural environments across six continents. Rather than focusing on technical solutions or policy frameworks, Cathy Oke and Jorn Verbeeck reveal the deeply personal journeys of former mayors, Indigenous leaders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, activists and academics who have used cities and towns as living laboratories for humanity's future. From Durban to Paris, Melbourne to Bangalore, these boundary spanners share intimate stories of what drives their work: childhood memories of fishing with grandparents, moments of recognition on Arctic mountains, encounters with traditional knowledge systems that challenge Western assumptions about development. Rather than celebrating lone heroes, the book reveals cities and their communities as "kaleidoscopes of possibility" requiring ensemble casts who translate between disciplines, sectors, and communities.
Each story weaves personal odyssey with professional transformation, capturing how individual experiences of displacement, discovery, and belonging shape approaches to collective challenges like climate change, inequality, and urban resilience. This is a syllabus for sustainable city leadership: accumulated wisdom that integrates multiple knowledge systems, honours ancient wisdom alongside contemporary innovation, and fosters collaborative intelligence through the stories we share. Essential reading for anyone navigating the messy, vital work of making cities thrive.
Illustrations by Chris Cane.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本開放存取的書籍帶領讀者深入二十位城市願景家的心靈與內心，他們正在六大洲改變城市和鄉村環境。與其專注於技術解決方案或政策框架，Cathy Oke 和 Jorn Verbeeck 揭示了前市長、原住民領袖、執行長、企業家、活動家和學者的深刻個人旅程，他們利用城市和城鎮作為人類未來的活實驗室。從德班到巴黎，從墨爾本到班加羅爾，這些跨界者分享了驅動他們工作的親密故事：與祖父母釣魚的童年回憶、在北極山脈的認同時刻、與挑戰西方發展假設的傳統知識系統的相遇。這本書並非讚美孤獨的英雄，而是揭示城市及其社區作為「可能性的萬花筒」，需要跨學科、跨部門和跨社區的團隊合作。
每個故事將個人奮鬥與專業轉變交織在一起，捕捉個體在流離失所、發現和歸屬中的經歷如何塑造對氣候變遷、不平等和城市韌性等集體挑戰的應對方式。這是可持續城市領導的課程大綱：累積的智慧整合了多種知識系統，尊重古老智慧與當代創新，並通過我們分享的故事促進協作智慧。對於任何在使城市繁榮的繁雜而重要的工作中摸索的人來說，這是必讀之作。
插圖由 Chris Cane 提供。
作者簡介
Cathy Oke OAM is Director of Melbourne Centre for Cities, and Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Cathy works at the interface of research, policy and practice for sustainable action in cities. She is Senior Advisor to the Innovate4Cities program of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, and a Lead Author for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.
Jorn Verbeeck is an independent Urban Strategist with Dark Matter Labs, based in Belgium. With over 20 years of local and international sustainability work across public and private sectors, his expertise spans city diplomacy, sustainability strategies, multi-level governance, climate action and investment plans, circular economy, ESG assessments, and smart city approaches.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Cathy Oke OAM 是墨爾本城市中心的主任，以及澳大利亞墨爾本大學的副教授。Cathy 在研究、政策和實踐的交界處工作，致力於城市的可持續行動。她是全球市長氣候與能源公約的 Innovate4Cities 計畫的高級顧問，並且是 IPCC 氣候變遷與城市特別報告的主要作者。
Jorn Verbeeck 是位於比利時的獨立城市策略師，隸屬於 Dark Matter Labs。擁有超過 20 年的公共和私人部門的本地及國際可持續性工作經驗，他的專業領域涵蓋城市外交、可持續性策略、多層級治理、氣候行動與投資計畫、循環經濟、ESG 評估以及智慧城市方法。
