Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges (Earthscan Climate)

by David Satterthwaite (Editor), David Dodman (Editor), JaneBicknell (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $182.18

  Brings together a body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. This book is suitable for policy makers and academics who face the challenge of addressing climate change vulnerability and adaptation in urban centres throughout global South.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $58.42

  This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. Framed by an overview of the main possibilities and constraints for adaptation, the contributors examine the implications of climate change for cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and propose innovative agendas for adaptation. The book should be of interest to policy makers, practitioners and academics who face the challenge of addressing climate change vulnerability and adaptation in urban centres throughout the global South. Published with E&U and International Institute for Environment and Development