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transport sector, 138–40
in urban infrastructure, 144–45
PTW. See pump-to-wheel (PTW) emissions
public-private partnerships, 130, 135
public transport, 7, 91, 137, 278–79
Beijing, 140
enhancing infrastructure of, 80
improvements of, 138
promotion of, 136
provisioning of, 138–39
and rate of emissions, 66
Singapore, 116
pump-to-wheel (PTW) emissions, 36, 39
Pune
adaptation capacity and responses of, 202–11
background concerning, 195–99
exposure to and impact of climate change
on, 198–202
opportunities and constraints for
adaptation, 211, 216–21
PVA. See participatory vulnerability
assessment (PVA)
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railway lines
Delhi, 139, 141
Mumbai, 117
rainwater harvesting, 145
Ramaswami, Anu, 15–54, 255–59
Rattanapan, Amornrat, 281
Ravella, Olga, 278
RCM. See regional climate model (RCM)
REAP. See Rotterdam Energy Approach and
Planning (REAP)
reconstruction process, 242–44
recycling, 33, 67
Redford, Robert, 165
reduction of emissions, 69–72
mitigation measures for, 72–76, 77f3.1,
81–82nn12–13
regional climate model (RCM), 176, 258
description of models used for, 176–78
experiments with, 178–79
results of HadRM3 experiments
impact of anthropogenic heat release on
future urban temperatures, 184–85
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 on select cities, 186–89
regulatory framework
for built environment, 132–33, 154nn1–2
and energy conservation, 131
for infrastructure, 143–44
to reduce emissions, 102, 103, 121n 4
of transport sector, 137–38
relocation, 237, 239
resilience
building long-term resilience, 237–39
and coping strategies to climate variability,
287–88
of New Orleans, 280
planning climate resilient cities, 281–82
resilient buildings, 130–31
and risk assessment, 234
of urban communities in Southeast Asia,
281
retrofi tting
buildings, 131, 135
street lights, 143
rice cultivation, and methane emissions,
35–36, 37
risk assessments, 10, 211, 234, 259, 266
framework for, 272
and long-term resilience, 234
predisaster damage limitation, 234–35
of urban climate change, 251n 1
risk management, of fl oods, 143
road transport
comparative analysis of emissions
accounting for, 59
and determinations of emissions from, 31
impact of congestion on freight trips, 93
share of emissions from, 90–91
See also transport sector
Roberts, Debra, 281–82
Robinson, Pamela, 282–83
Rockefeller Foundation Climate Change
Initiative, 125
Rodriguez, Roberto Sanchez, 283
Rosenzweig, Cynthia, 272
Rotterdam Energy Approach and Planning
(REAP) methodologies, 260, 275
rural areas, emissions in, 35S
Sanderson, Michael G., 10, 175–91
Saneinejad, S., 280