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245 0 0 _aCities and climate change :
_bresponding to an urgent agenda /
_cDaniel Hoornweg, Mila Freire, Marcus J. Lee, Perinaz Bhada-Tata, and Belinda Yuen.
260 _aWashington, D.C. :
_bWorld Bank,
_cc2011.
300 _axiv, 306 p. :
_bill., maps ;
_c23 cm.
490 1 _aUrban development series
500 _aCollection of papers prepared and presented at the World Bank's Fifth Urban Research Symposium.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : cities and the urgent challenges of climate change -- Greenhouse gas emission baselines for global cities and metropolitan regions / C.A. Kennedy ... [et al.] -- A comparative analysis of global city policies in climate change mitigation : London, New York, Milan, Mexico City and Bangkok / E. Croci, S. Melandri and T. Molteni -- GHG emissions, urban mobility and efficiency of urban morphology / A. Bertaud, B. Lefevre and B. Yuen -- The role of institutions, governance and planning for mitigation and adaptation by cities / H. Bulkeley ... [et al.] -- Viral governance and mixed motivations : how and why U.S. cities engaged on the climate change issue, 2005-2007 / T. Warden -- Urban heat islands : sensitivity of urban temperatures to climate change and heat release in four European cities / M. McCarthy and M. Sanderson -- Adapting cities to climate change : opportunities and constraints / D. Heinrichs ... [et al.] -- A conceptual and operational framework for pro-poor asset adaptation to urban climate change / C. Moser -- Epilogue: perspectives from the 5th Urban Research Symposium -- Appendix: abstracts of papers not included in printed version.
650 0 _aUrban ecology (Sociology)
_vCongresses.
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650 0 _aGreenhouse gases
_vCongresses.
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650 0 _aClimatic changes
_vCongresses.
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700 1 _aHoornweg, Daniel A.
_q(Ed.)
_d1961-
_956581
700 1 _aFreire, Mila
_q(Ed.)
_956582
700 1 _aLee Marcus J.
_q(Ed.)
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700 1 _aBhada-Tata, Perinaz
_q(Ed.)
_956584
700 1 _aYuen, Belinda
_q(Ed.)
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711 2 _aUrban Research Symposium
_n(5th :
_d2009 :
_cMarseille, France)
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830 0 _aUrban development series.
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