Cities and Climate Change Responding to an Urgent Agenda

The 5th urban research symposium on cities and climate change responding to an urgent agenda, held in Marseille in June 2009, sought to highlight how climate change and urbanization are converging to create one of the greatest challenges of our time. Cities consume much of the world's energy, a...

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Main Author Daniel Hoornweg, Mila Freire, Marcus J. Lee, Perinaz Bhada-Tata, Belinda Yuen
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Herndon World Bank 2011
World Bank Publications
The World Bank
Edition1
SeriesUrban Development Series
Subjects
Cities
Climate
Climate change
Climatic changes
Congresses
Ecology
Environment and politics
Environmental change
Environmental policy
Environmental protection
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Urban ecology (Sociology)
URBAN PLANNING
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
GOVERNANCE
ADAPTATION
SUSTAINABLE CITIES
MITIGATION
CITIES
INFRASTRUCTURE
CLIMATE CHANGE
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Contents -- 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 -- Chapter 6. Viral Governance and Mixed Motivations: How and Why U.S. Cities Engaged on the Climate Change Issue, 2005-2007 -- Chapter 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