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Corina McKendry

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Corina’s research focuses on legitimacy, effectiveness, and equity in city environmental governance. With a focus on postindustrial cities in the Global North, she is particularly interested in how city leaders negotiate the tensions between environmental protection, economic growth, and social justice, the oft-cited “three pillars” of sustainability. In particular, her work investigates the ways that local politics, national legal context, and the globalized economy intersect in cities in ways that force leaders to negotiate trade-offs — or seek to find common ground — among these three goals. Corina’s book, “Greening Post-Industrial Cities: Growth, Equity, and Environmental Governance,” is forthcoming in 2017 from Routledge Press. Her work has been published in the journals International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law, and Economics and Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability as chapters in the books “The Power of Cities in International Relations,” “The Economy of Green Cities: World Compendium on the Green Urban Economy,” and “The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society.”

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