Towards typologies of urban climate and global environmental change

The beauty of cities is that every city is different. From the homogenizing perspective of global environmental change that speaks trouble. We need an understanding of which kind of cities can contribute what kind of measures to mitigate and adapt to global environmental change. Typologies of cities...

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Main Author: Felix Creutzig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2015-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/10/101001
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Summary:The beauty of cities is that every city is different. From the homogenizing perspective of global environmental change that speaks trouble. We need an understanding of which kind of cities can contribute what kind of measures to mitigate and adapt to global environmental change. Typologies of cities offer a bridge between the idiosyncratic and the global. Bounoua et al (2015 Environ. Res. Lett. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/084010 10 http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/084010 ) analyse the impact of urbanization on surface climate. We discuss their results and suggest avenues for further systematic analysis.
ISSN:1748-9326