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Cities and Climate Change
Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
Climate change is one of the most significant global challenges facing the world today. It is also a critical issue for the world’s cities. Now home to over half the world’s population, urban areas are significant sources of emissions of greenhouse gases and are vulnerable to the impacts of climate...
To Be Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Cities and Low Carbon Transitions
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Current societies face unprecedented risks and challenges connected to climate change. Addressing them will require fundamental transformations in the infrastructures that sustain everyday life, such as energy, water, waste and mobility. A transition to a ‘low carbon’ future implies a large scale...
Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
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Governing Climate Change
Series: Global Institutions
Governing Climate Change provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and market actors to multilateral development banks, donors and cities. The issue of global climate change has risen to the top of...
Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge
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Cities and Climate Change
Series: Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment
Climate change is one of the most challenging issues of our time. As key sites in the production and management of emissions of greenhouse gases, cities will be crucial for the implementation of international agreements and national policies on climate change. This book provides a critical analysis...
Published March 9th 2005 by Routledge