Urban areas and global climate change / edited by William G. Holt.

Includes bibliographical references.

Climate change impacts on urban areas / William G. Holt -- Institutional and social capacities in lead cities in Europe and the United States : success factors for urban sustainability? / Corinna Altenburg -- Growth machines and carbon emissions : a county-level analysis of how U.S. place-making contributes to global climate change / Matthew Thomas Clement and James R. Elliott -- Tackling climate change adaptation at the local level through community participation / Geneviève Cloutier and Florent Joerin -- Climate protection and civil society : does effective local climate policy need the participation and engagement of citizens? : a comparison between the cities of Potsdam and Muenster / Mirjam Neebe and Fritz Reusswig -- Milan's answer to the climate change problem / Ilaria Beretta -- Win, lose or draw? : assessing the success of the environmental justice movement in emissions trading schemes / Krystal Tribbett -- Climate adaptation in the face of resource constraints : lessons from a coastal South Asian mega-city / Madhu C. Dutta-Koehler -- Adapting to what? : climate change impacts on Indian megacities and the local Indian climate change discourse / Fritz Reusswig and Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf -- Environmental state in transformation : the emergence of low-carbon development in urban China / Yifei Li -- Urban vulnerability and adaptation to the health impacts of air pollution and climate extremes in Latin Amercian cities / Patricia Romero-Lankao [and others] -- Cities in the flood : vulnerability and disaster risk management : evidence from Ibadan, Nigeria / Andrew Onwuemele -- Global environmental changes and impacts on fishing activities in the northern coast of São Paulo, Brazil / Sônia Regina da Cal Seixas [and others] -- Climate change and the north coast of Jakarta : environmental justice and the social construction of space in urban poor communities / Rita Padawangi -- The gender dimensions of climatic impacts in urban areas : evidence and lessons from Kampala City, Uganda / Buyana Kareem.