World Bank Document

(Jacob Rumans) #1

296 ■ INDEX


impact of climate change on modeled
urban and nonurban temperatures,
180, 182–84
urban and rural temperature diff erences,
180, 181f7.2
validation of modeled temperatures,
179–80
simulations of UHIs in select cities, 186–89
Hammer, Stephen, 274
Hardoy, Jorgelina, 284
health and health systems
and dengue fever, 283
impacts of climate change on, 199–202
heat fl ux, 177–78
heating sector, comparative analysis of
emissions accounting for, 59
heat production, emissions from, 30
hedonic price method, 285
Heinrichs, Dirk, 9, 10, 193–224
high-cost carbon, impact on fi nances, 286
high-income countries
and commuting trips, 92–93
emissions data for, 88–90, 99, 121n 1
Hilal, Mohammed, 285
Hong Kong SAR, China
and built environment, 132, 134–35
transport sector, 138–39, 140
urban infrastructure, 146
housing, 113, 237, 242–44
Huang, Yuan, 274–75
human activities, and emissions, 26, 126–27
human capital, 233–34, 241–42
human settlements, impact of climate change
on, 199–202
Hurricane Katrina, 167
Hutyra, Lucy, 273–74
hybrid vehicles, 136


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IC. See integrated circuit (IC) card ticket systems
ICLEI. See International Coalition for Local
Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
ICT. See information and communication
technologies (ICT)
IEA. See International Energy Agency (IEA)
implementation
of adaptation plans and strategies, 207,
210–11, 216–17
barriers to, 262
comparison of select cities approaches to,
76, 78


incentives
for carbon-based markets in transport
infrastructure, 105–6
market-based, 101–8, 121nn4–5
to reduce GHG emissions, 103–4
income level, and emissions, 5, 64, 81n 9
See also socioeconomics
India, 135, 143, 271–72
indicators
to assess sustainability of building
construction, 277
of climate change, 259
and implications for policies and
governance, 273
to measure impact and performance of
action plans, 255–59
indirect emissions, 56, 59
Indonesia, 132
industrial ecology, 40
industrialization, 268, 285
industrial sector emissions, 25, 42–44t2.5,
46–47, 50–51n1, 62–63
comparative analysis of accounting for, 59
and review of methodologies of studies of
emissions in, 34–35
from stationary combustion in, 30, 51n 2
information
communications for climate change
adaptation, 207, 210–11, 212–15t8.6
concerning transport sector, 140
sharing between cities, 168
information and communication technologies
(ICT), 278–79
infrastructure, 120, 259–62
and adaptation of climate change, 141–47
best practices strategies for, 280
enabling of, 144–45
enhancing for public transportation, 80
investment in, 102, 105–8, 138–39, 142
lessons learned from case studies on, 150,
152
and mitigation of climate change, 141–47
and modes of governing climate change,
147–48
partnerships for, 146–47
to prevent storms or fl oods, 237–39
provisioning for, 144–45
regulation of, 143–44
and risk, 234
self-governance of, 142–43
Singapore, 115–17
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