Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and
cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs. In recent
years cities have begun to craft their own climate change responses
against the backdrop of the reluctance displayed by nation-states
in committing to emissions reductions and managing the consequences
of climate change.
Climate Change at the City Scale presents a fresh contribution to
climate change literature, which has largely neglected the role of
cities in spite of their increasingly important role in the global
economy. The book focuses on the impacts of climate change in the
rapidly evolving city of Cape Town, and captures the experiences of
the Cape Town Climate Change Think Tank, a hybrid knowledge
partnership which has produced research on a range of urban
governance, impacts, mitigation and adaptation challenges by the
City.
Cape Town has long been acknowledged as an innovator in the area of
urban environmental management, notwithstanding its limited
resources to manage the demand for a more resilient and equitable
future. By documenting the work and experiences of the City 's
efforts to define its own climate future, the book provides a
provocative case study of the way in which the science-policy
interface can be managed to inform urban transformation.
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