Cities and climate change responding to an urgent agenda / Daniel Hoornweg ... [et al.], editors.
| Other author | Hoornweg, Daniel A. (Daniel Arthur), 1961- |
| Other author | Urban Research Symposium 2009 : Marseille, France) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : World Bank, |
| Description | xiv, 306 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Urban development series Urban development series. UNAUTHORIZED |
| 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. |
| General note | Collection of papers prepared and presented at the World Bank's Fifth Urban Research Symposium. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011007569 |
| ISBN | 9780821384930 |
| ISBN | 0821384937 |
| ISBN | 9780821386675 (electronic) |
| ISBN | 0821386670 (electronic) |