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Summary
Summary
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.
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This report provides a comprehensive treatment of 21st-century urban climate change impacts by focusing on the critical link between urban climate change science and mitigation and adaptation strategies, giving special consideration to the importance of governance structures and roles. Urban areas are unique with respect to the vulnerability of populations, physical characteristics (including proximity to water), and large contributions to climate change via energy usage and subsequent greenhouse gas emissions. The editors develop a framework for urban impact risk by combining observed and projected changes in climate with vulnerabilities in light of mitigation and adaptation strategies, and include specific examples of best practices from an array of urban centers. The report considers relevant factors, ranging from urban energy use and land use to wastewater treatment and human health, with the goal of developing strategies to minimize climate change impacts on urban inhabitants. Formulated in the style of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), this contribution is likely to remain the most relevant source on urban climate change issues for the next decade. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. J. Schoof Southern Illinois University
Table of Contents
| Forewords |
| Acknowledgements |
| Executive summary |
| 1 Introduction |
| Part I Defining the Risk Framework |
| 2 Cities, disasters and climate risk |
| 3 Urban climate: processes, trends and projections |
| Part II Urban Sectors |
| 4 Climate change and urban energy systems |
| 5 Climate change, water and wastewater |
| 6 Climate change and urban transportation systems |
| 7 Climate change and human health in cities |
| Part III Cross-Cutting Issues |
| 8 The role of urban land in climate change |
| 9 Cities and climate change: the challenges for governance |
| Annex: list of contributors |
| Index |
