Climate Change and Cities: First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network

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Description

This report covers cities in the developed and developing world, using climate science and socio-economic research to facilitate the mapping of a city’s vulnerability to climate hazards. It also considers how cities can develop both their adaptation and mitigation capacity to deal with climate change over different timescales.

NOTE: the "Climate Change and Cities: Second Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network" has been published in 2015

Reference information

Websites:

https://uccrn.ei.columbia.edu/first-uccrn-assessment-report-climate-change-and-cities-arc3-2011-0

Source:

Urban Climate Change Research Network

Published in Climate-ADAPT: Jun 7, 2016

Date of publication:

2011

Keywords:

adaptive capacity, local

Climate impacts:

Non specific

Adaptation Approaches:

Sector Policies, Adaptation Measures and Actions, Adaptation Plans and Strategies, Vulnerability Assessment

Sectors:

Energy, Health, Transport, Urban, Water management

Geographic characterisation:

Global

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