Cities on a Finite Planet
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This book changes our understanding of how cities can combine high quality living conditions, resilience to climate change and contributions to mitigation. It covers the potential contribution of cities to avoiding dangerous climate change and the first book with an in-depth coverage of how cities and their governments, citizens and civil society organizations can combine these different agendas, based on careful city-level analyses.

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This book changes our understanding of how cities can combine high quality living conditions, resilience to climate change and contributions to mitigation. It covers the potential contribution of cities to avoiding dangerous climate change and the first book with an in-depth coverage of how cities and their governments, citizens and civil society organizations can combine these different agendas, based on careful city-level analyses.
Autorenporträt
Sheridan Bartlett is a research associate at the Children's Environments Research Group at CUNY Graduate Center in New York, USA. She works primarily on issues of urban poverty as they affect children in low income countries, bridging the gaps between the work of child-focused agencies and the broader development context. David Satterthwaite is a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and a Visiting Professor at University College London, UK. He was a coordinating lead author of the chapter on urban areas in the IPCC's Fifth Assessment (Working Group II) and contributed to the IPCC's Third and Fourth Assessments.