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Green CITYnomics:
The Urban War against Climate Change
Edited by Kenny Tang
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Green CITYnomics: The Urban War against Climate Change
Edited by Kenny Tang
320 pp | 234 x 156 mm | hardrback | ISBN 978-1-906093-22-8 | Published
28 October 2009
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Today, more than half of the world's population are living in cities
that are now contributing 80% of global greenhouse gas emissions. They
cover less than 3% of the earth's surface. And urbanisation continues
apace.
With such a massive carbon footprint, it is clearly vital that cities
are part of the solution. And, from another perspective, the sheer
concentration of people, resources and economic activities in urban
centres will only serve to magnify city-dwellers' vulnerability to the
effects of climate change. Despite this, to date scarcely any
consideration has been given to the potential impact of climate change
on urban dwellers, especially in the developing countries and
burgeoning megacities of Africa, Asia and Latin America, where a wide
variety of environmental and development challenges are likely to
further exacerbate their vulnerability to climatic effects.
Such population concentrations mean local decision-makers have both an
opportunity and obligation to construct climate-resilient
infrastructures, create climate-friendly livelihoods and develop urban
systems that ensure better air quality, water, transport and health
services for all who live in them. Environmental liabilities need to
be transformed into sustainable assets.
"Green CITYnomics: The Urban War against Climate Change" presents a
rich set of contributions by a highly diverse group of 45 of the
world's leading urban experts on climate change. In particular, it
illustrates the desire some cities are already demonstrating in
engaging in this war. Standing still is not an option. Budgets have to
be fought for; minds have to be won over; old, untenable and
unsustainable ideas and solutions must be challenged; green and
sustainable solutions must be given the chance to develop and to prove
themselves.
The book is organised into four sections. First, contributors discuss
the challenges of making an integrated assessment of the impact of
climate change in our urban centres. Second, the book examines the
options and challenges for policy-makers. Third, specific aspects of
health, air quality, land use and water supply are examined. Finally,
the focus moves to specific aspects of solar heating, urban heat
island intensity, building emissions and urban planning education.
Each of the cities and urban centres discussed - from Hong Kong to
Dresden; from Mexico City to Qatar - are, in their own ways, heroes
and examples to us all. This book provides a compelling manifesto for
the world's cities in their 'Urban War against Climate Change'. It
will be essential reading for climate scientists, national and local
policy-makers and scholars worldwide.
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Chris Walker, Special Advisor and former Director (Chief Executive)
for North America, The °Climate Group
Preface and acknowledgements
Kenny Tang, Oxbridge Capital, UK
Section 1: Introduction
1. Introduction to Green CITYnomics: the urban war against climate
change
Kenny Tang, Oxbridge Capital, UK
2. Climate change: a tipping point for a move towards sustainable
development?
Tania Katzschner and Gregg Oelofse, University of Cape Town, South
Africa
3. A blueprint for the integrated assessment of climate change in cities
R.J. Dawson, Newcastle University, UK, et al.
Section 2: Policy-making and CO2 management systems
4. Climate change impacts and responses: Hong Kong's vulnerable
environment, infrastructure and economy
Alexandra Tracy, Christine Loh and Andrew Stevenson, Civic Exchange,
Hong Kong
5. Municipal Adaptation Planning: a city-based framework for climate
change adaptation
Pierre Mukheibir and Gina Ziervogel, Wannon Water Regional Authority,
Australia, and University of Cape Town, South Africa
6. Climate change and policy-making in the Baltic Sea region
Walter Leal and Franziska Mannke, Hamburg University of Applied
Sciences, Germany
7. Developing a CO2 management system for public authorities
Edeltraud Guenther and Julia Friedemann, Technische Universitaet
Dresden, Germany
Section 3: Health, air quality, transport, land use and water
8. Urban local governments and human health in a climate of change
Scott Baum, Katrin Lowe and Stephen Horton, Griffith University,
Australia
9. Better urban air quality and the Clean Development Mechanism:
bringing together local and global interests
Steffan Bakker, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, Natalia
Caldes and Maryse Labriet, Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas,
Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, Spain, Thierry Lefevre and Jessie
Todoc, Centre for Energy and Environment Resources Development,
Thailand, and Lin Leteng, Energy Research Institute of the Shandong
Academy of Science, China
10. Climate change and unsustainable land uses: the case of repetitive
loss properties
Charles T. Schartung and David Simpson, University of Louisville, USA
11. The contribution of water supply systems to climate change
Nalanie Mithraratne, Land Care Research, New Zealand
Section 4: Solar heating, urban heat island, buildings and urban
planning education
12. Environmental solar heating standard: a GHG mitigation policy in
Mexico City
Claudia Scheinbaum, National Autonomous University of Mexico
13. A Study of urban heat island intensity: the case of Doha
N.V. Sasidharan, P. Govinda Rao, Qatar Aeronautical College, and Ali
Hamed Al-Mulla, Qatar Petroleum
14. Emissions trading: a building block to the climate change solution?
Sara Hayes, Teigland-Hunt Associates LLP, USA
15. Climate change, peak oil and new curricula in urban planning
education
Rafael Pizzarro, The University of Sydney, Australia