Climate Change and Cities
First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network
- Edited by: Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
- Edited by: William D. Solecki, Hunter College, City University of New York
- Edited by: Stephen A. Hammer, Columbia University, New York
- Edited by: Shagun Mehrotra, Columbia University, New York
- Daniel Bader, Martha Barata, Reginald Blake, Hilda Blanco, JoAnn Carmin, DeWayne Cecil, Michelle Colley, Richenda Connell, Shobhakar Dhakal, Michael Dettinger, Gregorio De Simone, Thea Dickinson, Regina Folorunsho, Stuart Gaffin, Haluk Gercek, Joseph Gilbride, Richard Gonzalez, Alice Grimm, Stephen Hammer, Randall T. Hanson, Morgan Herve-Mignucci, Radley Horton, Michael Hyams, Toshiaki Ichinose, Darby Jack, Klaus Jacob, Shu Jiong, James Keirstead, Benoit Lefevre, Eva Ligeti, David C. Major, Patricia McCarney, Shagun Mehrotra, Jeanene Mitchell, Claudia E. Natenzon, Ademola Omojola, Susan Parnell, Lily Parshall, Jennifer Penney, Mizanur Rahman, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Deborah Salon, Roberto Sanchez-Rodriguez, Marco Schmidt, Niels Schulz, Karen Seto, William Solecki, Sumeeta Srinivasan, Rae Zimmerman
- ISBN:9781107004207
- Publication date:April 2011
- 34 b/w illus. 60 colour illus. 15 tables
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.
