Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844077454 ISBN 13 : 9781844077458

Editeur : Earthscan Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. Framed by an overview of the main possibilities and constraints for adaptation, the contributors examine the implications of climate change for cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and propose innovative agendas for adaptation. The book should be of interest to policy makers, practitioners and academics who face the challenge of addressing climate change vulnerability and adaptation in urban centres throughout the global South.

Published with E&U and International Institute for Environment and Development

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Jane Bicknell works with the Human Settlements Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and is Managing Editor of the international journal Environment and Urbanization.

David Dodman is a Researcher in the Human Settlements and Climate Change Groups at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). He is co-editor (with Duncan McGregor and David Barker) of Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment, Economy and Society at Risk (UWI Press, forthcoming).

David Satterthwaite is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and is Editor of the journal Environment and Urbanization. He has written or edited various books published by Earthscan, including Squatter Citizen (1989, with Jorge E Hardoy), The Earthscan Reader on Sustainable Cities (1999) and Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World (2001, with Jorge E Hardoy and Diana Mitlin). He contributed to the Third and Fourth Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; in 2004, he was awarded the Volvo Environment Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Earthscan Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844077454
• ISBN 13: 9781844077458
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 424
• Éditeur: Bicknell Jane, Dodman David, Satterthwaite David
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible