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Osofsky, Hari M. --- "Suburban Climate Change Efforts in Minnesota: Implications for Multi-level Mitigation Strategies" [2012] ELECD 717; in Richardson, J. Benjamin (ed), "Local Climate Change Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Local Climate Change Law

Editor(s): Richardson, J. Benjamin

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9780857937476

Section: Chapter 4

Section Title: Suburban Climate Change Efforts in Minnesota: Implications for Multi-level Mitigation Strategies

Author(s): Osofsky, Hari M.

Number of pages: 29

Extract:

4. Suburban climate change efforts in
Minnesota: implications for multi-level
mitigation strategies
Hari M. Osofsky*

1. INTRODUCTION
As international negotiations and United States federal efforts continue to fail
to produce an adequate response to climate change, a growing number of
cities, including many small suburban cities, are playing critical roles in multi-
level efforts to address climate change. Especially as global and national
trends towards urbanization continue,1 cities are becoming increasingly

* This chapter is a modified version of a portion of Hari M. Osofsky, `Suburban
Climate Change Efforts: Possibilities for Small and Nimble Cities Participating in
Regional, State, National, and International Networks' (Cornell Journal of Law and
Public Policy, forthcoming), which provides a more in-depth study of these issues. I
very much appreciate the helpful suggestions of Kirsten Engel, Daniel Farber, Michael
Gerrard, Ashira Ostrow, Pierre-Henri Prelot, and Benjamin J. Richardson, which have
helped me shape this project. This chapter also has been significantly improved by the
insights of participants in workshops at the Emory University Law School, University
of British Columbia Faculty of Law, and Washington University School of Law. Kenzie
Johnson provided invaluable research assistance on the case studies of individual cities
and their involvement in multi-level networks. The Law Library at the University of
Minnesota Law School, and particularly Suzanne Thorpe, was extremely helpful, espe-
cially in locating interdisciplinary sources on suburbs and climate change. I was greatly
assisted by the financial support of the 2011 Lampert Fesler Research Fellowship and
the ...