Climate Change and Cities : First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (Paperback)

Forewords; Acknowledgements; Executive summary; 1. Introduction; Part I. Defining the Risk Framework: 2. Cities, disasters and climate risk; 3. Urban climate: processes, trends and projections; Part II. Urban Sectors: 4. Climate change and urban energy systems; 5. Climate change, water and wastewater; 6. Climate change and urban transportation systems; 7. Climate change and human health in cities; Part III. Cross-Cutting Issues: 8. The role of urban land in climate change; 9. Cities and climate change: the challenges for governance; Annex: list of contributors; Index.