Urban governance and the politics of climate change

VC Broto - World development, 2017 - Elsevier
Cities and urban areas are increasingly recognized as strategic arenas for climate change
action. Processes of urban governance addressing climate change reconfigure the politics …

Progress in extreme heat management and warning systems: A systematic review of heat-health action plans (1995-2020)

R Kotharkar, A Ghosh - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent decades, rising trend in the number of heat waves (HWs) has exacerbated the risk
of heat-related mortality and morbidity. The frequent deadly HWs precipitated a multitude of …

Financial stability role on climate risks, and climate change mitigation: implications for green economic recovery

L Sun, S Fang, S Iqbal, AR Bilal - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
As a response to the topic of how financial stability might be used to effectively finance for
the mitigation of climate change and climate risks, it is important to look at the carbon risk …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the evolution and current trends in climate change adaptation science

J Nalau, B Verrall - Climate Risk Management, 2021 - Elsevier
Research on climate change adaptation has increased in number and significance since the
1970s. Yet, the volume of information on adaptation is now difficult to manage given its vast …

Resilience trade-offs: addressing multiple scales and temporal aspects of urban resilience

L Chelleri, JJ Waters, M Olazabal… - Environment and …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
The concept of urban resilience has so far been related mainly to climate change adaptation
and disaster management perspectives. Here we aim to broaden the discussion by showing …

[PDF][PDF] IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Chapter 24 Asia

Y Hijioka, E Lin, JJ Pereira… - … : Part B: Regional …, 2014 - nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp
Warming trends and increasing temperature extremes have been observed across most of
the Asian region over the past century (high confidence).{24.3} Increasing numbers of warm …

[图书][B] Adaptation to climate change: from resilience to transformation

M Pelling - 2010 - taylorfrancis.com
The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these
impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation …

Climate change and urban resilience

R Leichenko - Current opinion in environmental sustainability, 2011 - Elsevier
The notion of resilience is gaining increasing prominence across a diverse set of literatures
on cities and climate change. Although there is some disagreement among these different …

Talk renewables, walk coal: The paradox of India's energy transition

B Roy, A Schaffartzik - Ecological Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Coal is on the rise in India: despite the devasting impacts of the climate crisis, the awareness
for land and forest rights, and political talk of a coal phase-out. In this article, we demonstrate …

Urbanization and its implications for food and farming

D Satterthwaite, G McGranahan… - … transactions of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This paper discusses the influences on food and farming of an increasingly urbanized world
and a declining ratio of food producers to food consumers. Urbanization has been …