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Creating Low Carbon Cities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Creating Low Carbon Cities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book addresses key topics in the current deliberations and
debates on low carbon cities that are underway globally.
Contributions by experts from around the world focus on the key
factors required for creating low carbon cities. These include
appropriate infrastructure, ensuring co-benefits of climate
actions, making best use of knowledge and information, proper
accounting of emissions, and social factors such as behavioral
change. Readers will gain a better understanding of these drivers
and explore potential transformation pathways for cities.
Particular emphasis is given to the current situation of energy
consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at the urban level,
stressing the complexity of measuring GHG emissions from cities.
Chapters also shed new light on the long-term transformation
pathways towards low carbon. This book discusses key challenges and
opportunities in all these domains to aid in creating low carbon
cities, making it of value to policy makers, researchers in
academia and consultants working on climate change and energy
issues. "The low carbon cities agenda is of bold ambition and
demands rapid societal transformation. This book provides
invaluable information and analysis on how the goals of this agenda
can be achieved and what will be the significant obstacles in the
way. The content in the book goes below the surface to reveal
on-the-ground economic, engineering and equity issues that are at
the heart of the Paris Climate Agreement and the ensuing policy
debates. In this way, Creating Low Carbon Cities serves as a
critical scholarly benchmark and as a toolkit for further action."
William Solecki, Professor, Institute for Sustainable Cities, City
University of New York "Creating Low Carbon Cities provides a
refreshingly critical approach to low-carbon urban development,
what has been achieved so far and the challenges ahead. It will be
an important data-driven resource for local leaders, sustainability
practitioners and urban planners." Ms. Monika Zimmermann, Deputy
Secretary General, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability
General
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