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Cities and climate change [electronic resource] : responding to an urgent agenda / Daniel Hoornweg ... [et al.], editors.

Contributor(s): Hoornweg, Daniel A. (Daniel Arthur), 1961- | ebrary, Inc | Urban Research Symposium (5th : 2009 : Marseille, France).
Series: Urban development series.Publisher: Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2011Description: xiv, 306 p. : ill.Subject(s): Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Congresses | Greenhouse gases -- Congresses | Climatic changes -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 307.76 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.
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Collection of papers prepared and presented at the World Bank's Fifth Urban Research Symposium.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.