The city and the coming climate [electronic resource] : climate change in the places we live / Brian Stone, Jr.
Stone, Brian, Jr.
2012
QC903 .S86 2012eb
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Title The city and the coming climate [electronic resource] : climate change in the places we live / Brian Stone, Jr.
Author Stone, Brian, Jr.
ISBN 9781139061353 (electronic bk.)
1139061356 (electronic bk.)
9781139380171 (electronic bk.)
1139380176 (electronic bk.)
9781139377317 (electronic bk.)
1139377310 (electronic bk.)
9781107016712
1107016711
9781107602588 (pbk.)
1107602580 (pbk.)
1139061356
9781139375887
1139375881
Imprint New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 187 p.) : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).
Other Standard Identifiers 9786613633682
Call Number QC903 .S86 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.738/74
Summary "In the first decade of this century, for the first time in history, the majority of the planet's population resided in cities. We are an urban planet. If ongoing changes in climate are to have an impact on the human species, most of these impacts will play out in cities. This fact was brought into full relief in the summer of 2003, when more than 70,000 residents of Europe perished in one of the most prolonged and intense heat waves in human history. The final death toll would exceed that associated with any Western European or American conflict since World War II, or any other natural disaster to have ever struck a region of the developed world, and the vast majority of these deaths occurred in cities. Studies in the aftermath of the heat wave would show that not only had global warming increased the likelihood of such an extreme event, but that the intensity of the heat had been greatly enhanced by the physical design of the cities themselves, exposing residents of cities to a much greater risk of illness or death than others. This book is the first to explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities and the range of actions that can be taken to slow the pace of warming. A core thesis of the book is that the principal strategy advocated by the global science community to mitigate climate change - the reduction of greenhouse gases - will not prove sufficient to measurably slow the rapid pace of warming in cities"-- Provided by publisher.
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Prologue: La Canicule
Keeling's Curve
The Climate Barrier
Islands of Heat
The Green Factor
Leveraging Canopy for Carbon.

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