Urban areas and global climate change / edited by William G. Holt.

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Book
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English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2012.
Description
xvii, 356 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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    Contents
    • Climate change impacts on urban areas / William G. Holt
    • Institutional and social capacities in lead cities in Europe and the United States : success factors for urban sustainability? / Corinna Altenburg
    • Growth machines and carbon emissions : a county-level analysis of how U.S. place-making contributes to global climate change / Matthew Thomas Clement and James R. Elliott
    • Tackling climate change adaptation at the local level through community participation / Geneviève Cloutier and Florent Joerin
    • Climate protection and civil society : does effective local climate policy need the participation and engagement of citizens? : a comparison between the cities of Potsdam and Muenster / Mirjam Neebe and Fritz Reusswig
    • Milan's answer to the climate change problem / Ilaria Beretta
    • Win, lose or draw? : assessing the success of the environmental justice movement in emissions trading schemes / Krystal Tribbett
    • Climate adaptation in the face of resource constraints : lessons from a coastal South Asian mega-city / Madhu C. Dutta-Koehler
    • Adapting to what? : climate change impacts on Indian megacities and the local Indian climate change discourse / Fritz Reusswig and Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf
    • Environmental state in transformation : the emergence of low-carbon development in urban China / Yifei Li
    • Urban vulnerability and adaptation to the health impacts of air pollution and climate extremes in Latin Amercian cities / Patricia Romero-Lankao ... [et al.]
    • Cities in the flood : vulnerability and disaster risk management : evidence from Ibadan, Nigeria / Andrew Onwuemele
    • Global environmental changes and impacts on fishing activities in the northern coast of São Paulo, Brazil / Sônia Regina da Cal Seixas ... [et al.]
    • Climate change and the north coast of Jakarta : environmental justice and the social construction of space in urban poor communities / Rita Padawangi
    • The gender dimensions of climatic impacts in urban areas : evidence and lessons from Kampala City, Uganda / Buyana Kareem.
    ISBN
    • 9781781900369
    • 1781900361
    OCLC
    793225258
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