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CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE Responding to an Urgent Agenda Daniel Hoornweg, Mila Freire, Marcus J. Lee, Perinaz Bhada-Tata, and Be ...

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Th e Urban Development Series discusses the challenge of urbanization and what it will mean for developing countries in the deca ...

CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE Responding to an Urgent Agenda Daniel Hoornweg, Mila Freire, Marcus J. Lee, Perinaz Bhada-Tata, and Be ...

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Foreword iii Acknowledgments xi Contributors xiii Abbreviations xv Chapter 1. Introduction: Cities and the Urgent Challenges of ...

vi ■ CONTENTS Chapter 6. Viral Governance and Mixed Motivations: How and Why U.S. Cities Engaged on the Climate Change Issue, 20 ...

■ vii Th e 5th Urban Research Symposium on Cities and Climate Change—Responding to an Urgent Agenda, held in Marseille in June 2 ...

viii ■ FOREWORD interest and participation of the wider community of urban researchers and practitioners. We were encouraged by ...

Th e 5th Urban Research Symposium was co-organized by the World Bank, the French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, T ...

x ■ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS pour le Développement (ISTED), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the International Socie ...

Rimjhim Aggarwal, Arizona State University, USA Andrea Armstrong, Durham University, U.K. Jonathan Barton, Pontifi cia Universid ...

xii ■ CONTRIBUTORS Frauke Kraas, University of Cologne, Germany Kerstin Krellenberg, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research ...

AFOLU agriculture, forestry, and other land use BAU business as usual BRT bus rapid transit CBD central business district CBO co ...

xiv ■ ABBREVIATIONS IPCC International Panel on Climate Change JNNURM Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission kWh kilowa ...

■ 1 Introduction: Cities and the Urgent Challenges of Climate Change The Challenge of Cities and Climate Change Climate change i ...

2 ■ CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE growth and development benefi ts of urbanization while proactively managing its negative eff ects. ...

INTRODUCTION: CITIES AND THE URGENT CHALLENGES ■ 3 elsewhere. Complementing this volume, the Energy Sector Management and Assist ...

4 ■ CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE Th e rest of this introduction presents the main conclusions and key mes- sages emerging from the ...