Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges

The authors identify and assess risk, vulnerability, and adaptation to climate change in urban centers in low- and middle-income countries. The subjects are treated within the perspective of a framework of the most significant possibilities and constraints for adapting to climate change. The authors also address the implications of climate change in cities in Africa, Asia, and Latin America and offer innovative initiatives for adaptation. The book will interest academics, policy makers, and practitioners working in the field. Editors Bicknell, Dodman, and Satterthwaite (International Institute for Environment and Development), and 34 authors contributed to the book. Distributed in the U.S. by Stylus Publishing. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Jane Bicknell works with the Human Settlements Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and is Managing Editor of the international journal Environment and Urbanization.David Dodman is a Researcher in the Human Settlements and Climate Change Groups at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). He is co-editor (with Duncan McGregor and David Barker) of Global Change and Caribbean Vulnerability: Environment, Economy and Society at Risk (UWI Press, forthcoming). David Satterthwaite is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and is Editor of the journal Environment and Urbanization. He has written or edited various books published by Earthscan, including Squatter Citizen (1989, with Jorge E Hardoy), The Earthscan Reader on Sustainable Cities (1999) and Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World (2001, with Jorge E Hardoy and Diana Mitlin). He contributed to the Third and Fourth Assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; in 2004, he was awarded the Volvo Environment Prize.