TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosenzweig,Cynthia
ED  - Urban Climate Change Research Network,
TI  - Climate change and cities: first assessment report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network 
SN  - 9780511783142 (ebook)
AV  - HT241 .C595 2011
U1  - 363.349217091732 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Urban ecology (Sociology)
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Risk management
KW  - Climate change mitigation
KW  - Urban policy
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); Foreword; Anna Tibaijuka --; Foreword; Rajendra Kumar Pachauri --; Foreword; Michael R. Bloomberg --; Foreword; Jeffrey D. Sachs --; pt. I Introduction; Urban climate change in context --; pt. II Defining the risk framework; Cities, disasters, and climate risk --; Urban climate : processes, trends, and projections --; pt. III Urban sectors; Climate change and urban energy systems --; Climate change, water, and wastewater in cities --; Climate change and urban transportation systems --; Climate change and human health in cities --; pt. IV Cross-cutting issues; The role of urban land in climate change --; Cities and climate change : the challenges for governance --; Conclusion; Moving forward --; Appendix A; City case studies and topics in vulnerability, adaptation, and mitigation --; Appendix B; Acronyms and abbreviations --; Appendix C; Steering group, ARC3 authors, and reviewers
N2  - Urban areas are home to over half the world's people and are at the forefront of the climate change issue. The need for a global research effort to establish the current understanding of climate change adaptation and mitigation at the city level is urgent. To meet this goal a coalition of international researchers - the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) - was formed at the time of the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in New York in 2007. This book is the First UCCRN Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities. The authors are all international experts from a diverse range of cities with varying socio-economic conditions, from both the developing and developed world. It is invaluable for mayors, city officials and policymakers; urban sustainability officers and urban planners; and researchers, professors and advanced students
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511783142
ER  -