Cities as transnational climate change actors: applying a Global South perspective.
The term 'cities of the Global South' has become an increasingly popular reference in urban studies and urban development practice. Notwithstanding, the term remains underexplored and the majority of research does not address whether the Global North/Global South dichotomy is a useful theoretical fr...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 42; no. 9; pp. 2055 - 2074 |
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