Climate Change and Cities

by Rosenzweig, Cynthia; Solecki, William D.; Hammer, Stephen A.; Mehrotra, Shagun

• ISBN13: 9781107004207
• ISBN10: 1107004209
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-29
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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.

Table of Contents

Forewords

Acknowledgements

Executive summary

Introduction

Defining the Risk Framework

Cities, disasters and climate risk

Urban climate: processes, trends and projections

Urban Sectors

Climate change and urban energy systems

Climate change, water and wastewater

Climate change and urban transportation systems

Climate change and human health in cities

Cross-Cutting Issues

The role of urban land in climate change

Cities and climate change: the challenges for governance

Annex: list of contributors

Index

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