TY  - JOUR
SP  - 1332 
VL  - 50
N1  - ?© 2013 Urban Studies Journal Limited. 
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JF  - Urban Studies
A1  - Hebbert, M
A1  - Jankovic, V
AV  - public
SN  - 0042-0980
Y1  - 2013/05//
TI  - Cities and Climate Change: The Precedents and Why They Matter
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098013480970
EP  -  1347
ID  - discovery1391076
N2  - 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.
IS  - 7
ER  -