Hebbert, M;
Jankovic, V;
(2013)
Cities and Climate Change: The Precedents and Why They Matter.
Urban Studies
, 50
(7)
1332 - 1347.
10.1177/0042098013480970.
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This paper reviews the long tradition of city-scale climatological and meteorological applications prior to the emergence in the 1990s of early work on the urban/global climate change interface. It shows how ‘valuing and seeing the urban’ came to be achieved within modern scientific meteorology and how in a limited but significant set of cases that science has contributed to urban practice. The paper traces the evolution of urban climatology since 1950 as a distinct research field within physical geography and meteorology, and its transition from observational monographs to process modelling; reviews the precedents, successful or otherwise, of knowledge transfer from science into public action through climatically aware regulation or design of urban environment; and notes the neglect of these precedents in contemporary climate change discourse—a serious omission.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cities and Climate Change: The Precedents and Why They Matter |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0042098013480970 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098013480970 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | �© 2013 Urban Studies Journal Limited. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1391076 |
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