Publication Details |
| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Book chapters |
| Title (Primary) | Urban Latin America under climate change: do adaptation strategies of city-regions respond to the challenges? |
| Title (Secondary) | Continents under climate change |
| Author | Krellenberg, K.; Heinrichs, D. |
| Publisher | Endlicher, W.; Gerstengarbe, F.-W. |
| Source Titel | Nova Acta Leopoldina |
| Year | 2010 |
| Department | SUSOZ |
| Volume | 384 = N.F., Bd. 112 |
| Page From | 267 |
| Page To | 274 |
| Language | englisch |
| Abstract | Driven by a growing consensus that climate change is inevitable and predictions are probable, adaptation of cities to climate change has recently entered the academic and political debate as an essential and integral part of climate policy. Cities and city-regions are key sources of greenhouse gas emissions and at the same time highly vulnerable to the consequences of climate change. City administrations around the world are starting to initiate actions to both reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to confront and anticipated effects. Latin America, the most urbanized of all developing world regions is no exception. This paper attempts to draw first lessons from selected city-regions on how urban responses to climate change address the likely impacts such as increasing water scarcity or extreme events. The research is based on an analysis of official documents, expert interviews, literature reviews and statistical data. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=10204 |
| Krellenberg, K., Heinrichs, D. (2010): Urban Latin America under climate change: do adaptation strategies of city-regions respond to the challenges? In: Endlicher, W., Gerstengarbe, F.-W. (eds.) Continents under climate change Nova Acta Leopoldina 384 = N.F., Bd. 112 Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, p. 267 - 274 |
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