Climate change at the city scale
Subtitle: impacts, mitigation and adaptation in Cape Town
By: edited by Anton Cartwright ... [et al.].
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon, UK; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780415527583; 9780203112656
Subjects: Risk management; Climatic changes; Climate change mitigation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Understanding the risks to Cape Town of inundation from the sea / Geoff Brundrit and Anton Cartwright; title: Potential impact of climate change on coastal flooding: a case study of the Salt River, Cape Town / Rhydar Harris, Stephen Luger, Cathy Sutherland and Mark Tadross; title: Energy scenarios for Cape Town: exploring the implications of different energy futures for the city up to 2050 / Sustainable Energy Africa, Energy Research Centre, African Centre for Cities and the City of Cape Town; title: Opportunities and challenges in establishing a low carbon zone in the Western Cape province / Yvonne Lewis and Meagan Jooste; title: Towards a climate resilient and low carbon city of Cape Town: climate change, planning law and practice / Jan Glazewski; title: Cities and climate change ex abundanti cautela; title: "From an excess of caution"? / Jaap de Visser; title: City of Cape Town solar water heater by-law: barriers to implementation / Jan Froestad, Clifford Shearing, Tom Herbstein and Sakina Grimwood; title: Climate change and possible legal liability: implications for the city of Cape Town / Debbie Collier and Jan Glazewski; title: Reducing the pathology of risk: developing an integrated municipal coastal protection zone for the city of Cape Town / Darryl Colenbrander, Catherine Sutherland, Gregg Oelofse, Howard Gold and Sakhile Tsotsobe; title: Supporting city-scale decisions in the context of climate change: the case of the city of Cape Town / Anton Cartwright, Brett Cohen, David Liddell; title: The coastal cities climate change adaptation network / Susan Parnell; title: Conclusion.