Climate Change at the City Scale : Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Cape Town

Cartwright, Anton (EDT)/ Parnell, Susan (EDT)/ Oelofse, Gregg (EDT)

Routledge（2012/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780415527583
• DDC分類 363.73874

基本説明

This book highlights the outcomes of the Cape Town Climate Think Tank, providing a provocative case study of the way knowledge partnerships can inform urban transformation.

Full Description

Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs. In recent years cities have begun to craft their own climate change responses against the backdrop of the reluctance displayed by nation-states in committing to emissions reductions and managing the consequences of climate change.

Climate Change at the City Scale presents a fresh contribution to climate change literature, which has largely neglected the role of cities in spite of their increasingly important role in the global economy. The book focuses on the impacts of climate change in the rapidly evolving city of Cape Town, and captures the experiences of the Cape Town Climate Change Think Tank, a hybrid knowledge partnership which has produced research on a range of urban governance, impacts, mitigation and adaptation challenges by the City.
Cape Town has long been acknowledged as an innovator in the area of urban environmental management, notwithstanding its limited resources to manage the demand for a more resilient and equitable future. By documenting the work and experiences of the City's efforts to define its own climate future, the book provides a provocative case study of the way in which the science-policy interface can be managed to inform urban transformation.

Contents

1. Introduction 2. Understanding Cape Town's Climate 3. Understanding the Risks to Cape Town of Inundation from the Sea 4. Potential Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Flooding: A Case Study of the Salt river, Cape Town 5. Energy Scenarios for Cape Town: Exploring the Implications of Different Energy Futures for the City up to 2050 6. Opportunities and challenges in establishing a Low Carbon Zone in the Western Cape Province 7. Cities and Climate Change Ex Abundanti Cautela - 'From An Excess Of Caution'? 8. Climate Change and Possible Legal Liability: Implications for the City of Cape Town 9. Towards a Climate Resilient and Low Carbon City of Cape Town: Climate Change, Planning Law and Practice 10. Reducing the Pathology of Risk: Developing an Integrated Municipal Coastal Protection Zone for the City of Cape Town 11. Supporting City-scale Decisions in the Context of Climate Change: The Case of the City of Cape Town 12. South African Coastal Cities: Governance Responses to Climate Change Adaptation 13. City of Cape Town Solar Water Heater by-law: Barriers to implementation 14. Conclusion