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| List of Figures | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| List of Boxes | |
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| List of Case studies | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Climate change - an urban problem? | |
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| Introducing climate change | |
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| What has climate change got to do with the city? | |
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| Urban worlds and climate-change futures | |
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| Chapter outline | |
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| Discussion points | |
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| Further reading and resources | |
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| Climate risk and vulnerability in the city | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The urban impacts of climate change | |
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| Climate change and urban vulnerability | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Discussion points | |
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| Further reading and resources | |
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| Accounting for urban GHG emissions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Assessing the urban contribution to climate change | |
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| Urban difference and the drivers of GHG emissions | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Discussion points | |
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| Further reading and resources | |
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| Governing climate change in the city | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Charting the emergence of urban climate-change responses | |
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| Understanding the nature of urban climate governance | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Discussion points | |
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| Further reading and resources | |
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| Climate-change mitigation and low-carbon cities | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is mitigation? | |
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| Making mitigation policy | |
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| Municipal climate-change mitigation in action | |
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| The drivers and challenges of mitigation | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Discussion points | |
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| Further reading and resources | |
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| Urban adaptation - towards climate-resilient cities? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What is adaptation? | |
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| Making adaptation policy | |
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| Municipal climate-change adaptation in practice | |
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| Drivers and barriers for urban climate-change adaptation | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Discussion points | |
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| Further reading and resources | |
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| Climate-change experiments and alternatives in the city | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Sowing the seeds of change? | |
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| Experiments in practice | |
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| Alternatives: moving beyond the mainstream? | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Discussion points | |
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| Further reading and resources | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Changing climate, changing cities? | |
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| Urban futures: towards climate justice? | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |