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

by David Satterthwaite and David Dodman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844077462
• ISBN13: 9781844077465
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.0"