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Cities and Climate Change : Responding to an Urgent Agenda.
This volume comprises a collection of papers prepared and presented at the World Bank's Fifth Urban Research Symposium, as part of the World Bank Group's strategy to share and encourage research oriented to urban issues and bridge these academic results with the pressing needs of developin...
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2011.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1. Introduction: Cities and the Urgent Challenges of Climate Change; Chapter 2. Greenhouse Gas Emission Baselines for Global Cities and Metropolitan Regions; Chapter 3. Comparing Mitigation Policies in Five Large Cities: London, New York City, Milan, Mexico City, and Bangkok; Chapter 4. GHG emissions, Urban Mobility, and Morphology: A Hypothesis; Chapter 5. The Role of Institutions, Governance, and Urban Planning for Mitigation and Adaptation. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Chapter 6. Viral Governance and Mixed Motivations: How and Why U.S. Cities Engaged on the Climate Change Issue, 2005-2007Chapter 7. Urban Heat Islands: Sensitivity of Urban Temperatures to Climate Change and Heat Release in Four European Cities; Chapter 8. Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Opportunities and Constraints; Chapter 9. A Conceptual and Operational Framework for Pro-poor Asset Adaptation to Urban Climate change; Chapter 10. Epilogue: Perspectives from the 5th Urban Research Symposium; Appendix. Titles and Abstracts of Papers Not Included in Full in This Volume; Index. | |
| 520 | |a This volume comprises a collection of papers prepared and presented at the World Bank's Fifth Urban Research Symposium, as part of the World Bank Group's strategy to share and encourage research oriented to urban issues and bridge these academic results with the pressing needs of developing cities. The selected papers included in this book combine robust analytical pieces and theoretical insights with best practices from around the world. Specific case studies include New Orleans in the context of a fragile environment, a framework to include poverty aspects in the cities and climate change di. | ||
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