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World cities and climate change : producing urban ecological security /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hodson, Mike
Other Authors: Marvin, Simon, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Maidenhead ; New York : Open University Press, 2010.
Series:Issues in society.
Subjects:
Urban climatology.
Climatic changes.
City planning > Climatic factors.
Climatic changes > Government policy.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Theory, concepts and issues. The politics of governing cities, infrastructures and resource flows ; 'New' pressures : mediating cities, infrastructures and resource flows
  • Part II. Urban responses. Rebundled urban network ecologies ; Secure urbanism and resilient infrastructure in world cities
  • Part III. Implications, limits and alternatives. The 'metropolitanization' of ecological resources ; Conclusions : producing urban ecological security.