Urban Climate Change Crossroads - 9781409400783

Name: Urban Climate Change Crossroads - 9781409400783
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Based on a major international forum held in Rome in 2008, this volume brings together leading climate change experts from an array of fields to engage holistically with the climate change discourse as it shifts from mitigation to adaptation, with particular attention to the urban environment. It is a pioneering effort to broaden the discursive field, and is likely to remain a landmark study on the subject for a generation. > Urban climate change is a crossroads in two very different senses. One is historical. With the world now more than half urban, and given the ecological consequences of the world's high-consumption urban centers, we are at an ecological crossroad. We either head off the worst of ecological collapse through concerted and forward-looking action, or we face a 'Mad Max future' of dystopia, violence, and upheaval. The second crossroad is intellectual. Our individual disciplines are unable to grasp the magnitude of the economic-ecological challenges ahead. For thaty