Adapting Cities to Climate Change

Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges

		Edited by: Jane Bicknell   David Dodman   David Satterthwaite   Colour photographs 424 pages, 234 x 156 mm Publisher: Earthscan May 2009

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Description
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.

Reviews
"It won't be long before adapting to climate change dominates the lives of more than half of humankind – in cities the world over. That means quite simply that everything being done today on urban infrastructure, the built environment and social systems, has to be 'future-proofed' in terms of those impacts. Adapting Cities to Climate Change provides inspiring examples of where this is already happening – with resilience 'baked in' as it were – whilst reminding both policy-makers and community activists that they're still way off the pace in terms of the quality of leadership they now need to provide."
Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director, Forum for the Future, chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission and author of Capitalism as If the World Matters

Author Information
Jane Bicknell works with the Human Settlements Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and is Managing Editor of the International journal Environment and Urbanization.

David Dodman is a Researcher in the Human Settlements and Climate Change Groups at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). He is co-editor of Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment, Economy and Society at Risk (UWI Press).

David Satterthwaite is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and is Editor of the journal Environment and Urbanization.

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