TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoornweg,Daniel A.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
ED  - Urban Research Symposium
TI  - Cities and climate change: responding to an urgent agenda 
T2  - Urban development series
AV  - HT241 .C555 2011eb
U1  - 307.76 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Urban ecology (Sociology)
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Greenhouse gases
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Collection of papers prepared and presented at the World Bank's Fifth Urban Research Symposium; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10480986
ER  -