Cities and climate change : responding to an urgent agenda /

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 Bang...

Celý popis

Uloženo v:
Podrobná bibliografie
Hlavní autor: Hoornweg, Daniel
Korporativní autor: Urban Research Symposium
Další autoři: Freire, Mila (Editor), Lee, Marcus J (Editor), Bhada-Tata, Perinaz (Editor), Yuen, Belinda (Editor), Hoornweg, Daniel A (Editor)
Médium: Konferenční příspěvek Kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2011.
Edice:Urban development series.
Témata:
Tagy: Přidat tag
Žádné tagy, Buďte první, kdo vytvoří štítek k tomuto záznamu!
Popis
Shrnutí: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.
Popis jednotky:Collection of papers prepared and presented at the World Bank's Fifth Urban Research Symposium.
Fyzický popis:306 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliografie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780821384930