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...

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Glavni autor: Hoornweg, Daniel
Autor kompanije: Urban Research Symposium
Daljnji autori: Freire, Mila (Urednik), Lee, Marcus J (Urednik), Bhada-Tata, Perinaz (Urednik), Yuen, Belinda (Urednik), Hoornweg, Daniel A (Urednik)
Format: Izvještaj sastanka Knjiga
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2011.
Serija:Urban development series.
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Sažetak: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.
Opis predmeta:Collection of papers prepared and presented at the World Bank's Fifth Urban Research Symposium.
Opis fizičkog objekta:306 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliografija:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780821384930