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The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live
Brian Stone, Jr, Jr
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Description for The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live
hardcover. First book to explore dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities for students, policy makers and the general reader. Num Pages: 198 pages, 30 b/w illus. 5 colour illus. BIC Classification: JFSG; RBP; RNPG. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 158 x 20. Weight in Grams: 498.
This book is the first to explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities and the range of actions that individuals and governments can undertake to slow the pace of warming. A core thesis of the book is that the principal strategy currently advocated to mitigate climate change – the reduction of greenhouse gases – will not prove sufficient to measurably slow the rapid pace of warming in urban environments. Brian Stone explains the science of climate change in terms accessible to the non-scientist and with compelling anecdotes drawn from history and current events. The book is an ... Read more
This book is the first to explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities and the range of actions that individuals and governments can undertake to slow the pace of warming. A core thesis of the book is that the principal strategy currently advocated to mitigate climate change – the reduction of greenhouse gases – will not prove sufficient to measurably slow the rapid pace of warming in urban environments. Brian Stone explains the science of climate change in terms accessible to the non-scientist and with compelling anecdotes drawn from history and current events. The book is an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107016712
SKU
V9781107016712
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99-18
About Brian Stone, Jr, Jr
Brian Stone, Jr is an Associate Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches in the area of urban environmental planning and design. His program of research is focused on climate change at the urban scale and is supported through funding from the National Institutes of Health, the US Environmental ... Read more
Reviews for The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live
'Cities have begun to feel the sting of a changing climate already. This powerful volume reminds us what we can still do - globally and locally - by adapting to that which we can't prevent, and even more crucially, preventing that to which we can't adapt.' Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College and author of The End of Nature ... Read more