Urban Climate Change Crossroads.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One Intersections -- Chapter 1: The Design Equation -- Chapter 2: The Question of Environmental Justice -- Chapter 3: Five Health Concerns -- Part Two Beyond Mitigation -- Chapter 4: Cities and Governance -- Chapter 5: Taking Action -- Chapter 6: The Adaptation Imperative -- Part Three The Urban Psyche -- Chapter 7: Urban Competitiveness -- Chapter 8: What If. . . New York -- Chapter 9: Toponymical Rome -- Part Four Communication Challenges -- Chapter 10: Communicating the Safe City -- Chapter 11: Real People, Urban Places -- Chapter 12: Governance and Consensus Building -- Part Five Post-Warming -- Chapter 13: The Mad Max Phase -- Chapter 14: The Sociology of Disaster -- Chapter 15: The Antarctica Project -- Part Six The Resistence Factor -- Chapter 16: A Vicious Circle -- Chapter 17: Uncertainties -- Chapter 18: Out of Alternative Explanations -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.

Based on a major international forum held in Rome in 2008, this volume brings together leading climate change experts from an array of fields to engage holistically with the climate change discourse as it shifts from mitigation to adaptation, with particular attention to the urban environment. It is a pioneering effort to broaden the discursive field, and is likely to remain a landmark study on the subject for a generation.

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