The City and the Coming Climate Climate Change in the Places We Live

This book is the first to explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities and the range of actions that individuals and governments can undertake to slow the pace of warming. A core thesis of the book is that the principal strategy currently advocated to mitigate climate chan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Stone, Jr, Brian
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, [U.K.] Cambridge University Press 16.04.2012
Edition1
Subjects
Cities and towns
Climate change mitigation
Climatic changes
Climatic changes > Economic aspects
Economic aspects
Urbanization
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ISBN9781107602588
1107016711
1107602580
9781107016712
DOI10.1017/CBO9781139061353

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: La Canicule -- 1: Keeling's Curve -- 2: The Climate Barrier -- 3: Islands of Heat -- 4: The Green Factor -- 5: Leveraging Canopy for Carbon -- 1. Broaden the definition of climate change adopted by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to encompass the land-surface drivers of climate change -- 2. Adopt the regional scale as the primary focus of scientific assessments of climate change -- 3. Establish forest protection and reforestation commitments for participating nations -- 4. Prioritize adaptive mitigation over nonadaptive mitigation -- Postscript -- References -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- Index