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Climate Change and Cities : First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network.
Volume on climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts in cities around the world for policymakers, urban planners, researchers and advanced students.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword
- Anna Tibaijuka; Foreword
- Rajendra Kumar Pachauri; Foreword
- Michael R. Bloomberg; Foreword
- Jeffrey D. Sachs; Preface; Executive Summary; Key findings; Cross-cutting issues; Cities act; About the First Assessment Report onClimate Change and Cities (ARC3); References; Part I Introduction; 1 Urban climate change in context; Part II Defining the risk framework; 2 Cities, disasters, and climate risk; 3 Urban climate Processes, trends, and projections; Part III Urban sectors; 4 Climate change and urban energy systems.
- 5 Climate change, water, and wastewater in cities6 Climate change and urban transportation systems; 7 Climate change and human health in cities; Part IV Cross-cutting issues; 8 The role of urban land in climate change; 9 Cities and climate change: The challenges for governance; Conclusion: Moving forward; Scientists and stakeholders: Key partners in urban climate change mitigation and adaptation; Appendix A City case studies and topics in vulnerability, adaptation and mitigation; Appendix B Acronyms and Abbreviations; Appendix C UCCRN Steering Group, ARC3 authors, and reviewers.
- Steering GroupCoordinating lead authors and lead authors; Case study authors*; Reviewers; Index.