| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 286 pages) : color illustrations, color maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Forewords -- Acknowledgements -- Executive summary -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Defining the Risk Framework: 2. Cities, disasters and climate risk -- 3. Urban climate: processes, trends and projections -- Part II. Urban Sectors: 4. Climate change and urban energy systems -- 5. Climate change, water and wastewater -- 6. Climate change and urban transportation systems -- 7. Climate change and human health in cities -- Part III. Cross-Cutting Issues: 8. The role of urban land in climate change -- 9. Cities and climate change: the challenges for governance -- Annex: list of contributors -- Index. |
| Summary |
Urban areas are home to over half the world's people and are at the forefront of the climate change issue. The need for a global research effort to establish the current understanding of climate change adaptation and mitigation at the city level is urgent. To meet this goal a coalition of international researchers - the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) - was formed at the time of the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in New York in 2007. This book is the First UCCRN Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities. The authors are all international experts from a diverse range of cities with varying socio-economic conditions, from both the developing and developed world. It is invaluable for mayors, city officials and policymakers; urban sustainability officers and urban planners; and researchers, professors and advanced students. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Urban ecology (Sociology)
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Urban ecology (Sociology) |
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Climatic changes -- Risk management.
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Climatic changes -- Risk management. |
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Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on.
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Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on. |
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Climate change mitigation.
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Climate change mitigation. |
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Urban policy.
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Urban policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic book.
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| Added Author |
Rosenzweig, Cynthia.
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Urban Climate Change Research Network.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Climate change and cities. [S.l.] : Cambridge Univ Press, 2010 1107004209 (OCoLC)647671150 |
| ISBN |
9780511993176 (electronic book) |
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051199317X (electronic book) |
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9780511783142 (electronic book) |
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0511783140 (electronic book) |
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9786613076366 |
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6613076368 |
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1107004209 |
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9781107004207 |
| Standard No. |
9786613076366 |
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