City and the Coming Climate - Climate Change in the Places We Live

Informationen zum Autor 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 Protection Agency and the U.S. Forest Service. Stone's work on urbanization and climate change has been featured on CNN, National Public Radio and in print media outlets such as Forbes and USA Today. Stone holds degrees in environmental management and planning from Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Klappentext First book to explore dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities for students, policy makers and the general reader. Zusammenfassung The first book to explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities. Ideal introduction to climate change and cities for students! policy makers and the general reader wishing to gain insight into an issue critical to the future of our cities and the people that live in them. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: la canicule; 1. Keeling's curve; 2. The climate barrier; 3. Islands of heat; 4. The green factor; 5. Leveraging canopy for carbon.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Stone, Dr. Brian Stone, Jr Stone, Stone Brian, Brian Stone Jr
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107016712
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01671-2
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > General, dictionaries; Climate Change, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, The environment, Meteorology & climatology, Meteorology and climatology, Earth Sciences, Urban communities, Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning