TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoornweg,Daniel
AU  - Freire,Mila
AU  - Lee,Marcus J
AU  - Bhada-Tata,Perinaz
AU  - Yuen,Belinda
AU  - Hoornweg,Daniel A
ED  - Urban Research Symposium
TI  - Cities and climate change : : responding to an urgent agenda 
T2  - Urban development series
SN  - 9780821384930
U1  - 551.6 21
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Washington, D.C
PB  - The World Bank
KW  - Urban ecology (Sociology)
KW  - Congresses.
KW  - qrmak
KW  - Greenhouse gases
KW  - Climate changes
N1  - Collection of papers prepared and presented at the World Bank's Fifth Urban Research Symposium; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -