With fellow co-editors, Cynthia Rosenzweig (NASA), Bill Solecki (CUNY) Patricia Romero Lankao (NCAR), Dr. Shobhakar Dhakal launches the Assessment Report on Cities and Climate Change of Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) in Edmonton on 5th March 2018.
The Urban Climate Change Research Network’s Second Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities (ARC3.2) is the second in a series of global, science-based reports to examine climate risk, adaptation, and mitigation efforts in cities. The book explicitly seeks to explore the implications of changing climatic conditions on critical urban physical and social infrastructure sectors and intersectoral concerns. The primary purpose of ARC3.2 is to inform the development and implementation of effective urban climate change policies, leveraging ongoing and planned investments for populations in cities of developing, emerging, and developed countries. This volume will be invaluable for a range of audiences involved with climate change and cities: mayors, city officials and policymakers; urban planners; policymakers charged with developing climate change mitigation and adaptation programs; and a broad spectrum of researchers and advanced students in the environmental sciences.
The report is a multi-year effort comprising over 500 scientists from all over the world, and is published by Cambridge University Press. Details here: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/climatology-and-climate-change/climate-change-and-cities-second-assessment-report-urban-climate-change-research-network/