Cities and climate change responding to an urgent agenda /
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
2011.
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| Series: | Urban development series
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| Online Access: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : cities and the urgent challenges of climate change
- Greenhouse gas emission baselines for global cities and metropolitan regions / C.A. Kennedy ... [et al.]
- A comparative analysis of global city policies in climate change mitigation : London, New York, Milan, Mexico City and Bangkok / E. Croci, S. Melandri and T. Molteni
- GHG emissions, urban mobility and efficiency of urban morphology / A. Bertaud, B. Lefevre and B. Yuen
- The role of institutions, governance and planning for mitigation and adaptation by cities / H. Bulkeley ... [et al.]
- Viral governance and mixed motivations : how and why U.S. cities engaged on the climate change issue, 2005-2007 / T. Warden
- Urban heat islands : sensitivity of urban temperatures to climate change and heat release in four European cities / M. McCarthy and M. Sanderson
- Adapting cities to climate change : opportunities and constraints / D. Heinrichs ... [et al.]
- A conceptual and operational framework for pro-poor asset adaptation to urban climate change / C. Moser
- Epilogue: perspectives from the 5th Urban Research Symposium
- Appendix: abstracts of papers not included in printed version.