Gerald
Mills(University College Dublin) considers the big challenges for cities
amid global climate change (GCC) and discusses the need for an
inter-disciplinary approach among urban climate sciences to overcome obstacles.
A distinction is made between global climate science, which focusses on
Earth-scale outcomes, and urban climate science, which refers to processes and
impacts at city-scales, including buildings, streets and neighbourhoods.
William E. Rees(University of British Columbia) explains why urbanisation has been a
significant contributor to ecological overshoot (when human consumption and waste generation exceeds the
regenerative capacity of supporting ecosystems) and climate change.1 Civil
society needs to begin
designing a truly viable future involving a ‘Plan B’ for orderly local degrowth
of large cities.
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Cities-Scale Research to Address Climate Change
Gerald Mills (University College Dublin) considers the big challenges for cities amid global climate change (GCC) and discusses the need for an inter-disciplinary approach among urban climate sciences to overcome obstacles. A distinction is made between global climate science, which focusses on Earth-scale outcomes, and urban climate science, which refers to processes and impacts at city-scales, including buildings, streets and neighbourhoods.
Climate Change, Overshoot and the Demise of Large Cities
William E. Rees (University of British Columbia) explains why urbanisation has been a significant contributor to ecological overshoot (when human consumption and waste generation exceeds the regenerative capacity of supporting ecosystems) and climate change.1 Civil society needs to begin designing a truly viable future involving a ‘Plan B’ for orderly local degrowth of large cities.