Cities on a Finite Planet: Towards transformative responses to climate change - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138184098 ISBN 13: 9781138184091

Verlag: Routledge, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This book changes our understanding of how cities can combine high quality living conditions, resilience to climate change and contributions to mitigation. It covers the potential contribution of cities to avoiding dangerous climate change and the first book with an in-depth coverage of how cities and their governments, citizens and civil society organizations can combine these different agendas, based on careful city-level analyses.

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Sheridan Bartlett is a research associate at the Children's Environments Research Group at CUNY Graduate Center in New York, USA. She works primarily on issues of urban poverty as they affect children in low income countries, bridging the gaps between the work of child-focused agencies and the broader development context.

David Satterthwaite is a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and a Visiting Professor at University College London, UK. He was a coordinating lead author of the chapter on urban areas in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment (Working Group II) and contributed to the IPCC's Third and Fourth Assessments.　

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138184098
• ISBN 13: 9781138184091
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308
• Herausgeber: Bartlett Sheridan, Satterthwaite David
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland