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10 - How Can Urbanites Avoid Becoming Climate Victims or Villains?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2017

Robert L. Wilby
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Loughborough University
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Climate Change in Practice
Topics for Discussion with Group Exercises
, pp. 160 - 173
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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10.4 Further Reading

Kinney, P.L., Schwartz, J., Pascal, M., et al. 2015. Winter season mortality: will climate bring benefits? Environmental Research Letters, 10, 064016.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Trenberth, K.E. and Fasullo, J.T. 2012. Climate extremes and climate change: the Russian heat wave and other extremes of 2010. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, 117, D17103.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

10.5 Other Resources

C40 Cities www.c40.org/ [accessed 14/07/16]

COP21: City mayors discuss green solutions www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34999962 [accessed 14/07/16]

City of Melbourne Personal Heatwave Response Plan www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/safety-emergency/emergency-management/Pages/Heatwaves.aspx [accessed 14/07/16]

Climate change risks to London www.youtube.com/watch?v=y12rlCBRc4w [accessed 14/07/16]

Heatwave plan for England www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/429384/Heatwave_Main_Plan_2015.pdf [accessed 14/07/16]

Oral history of the 1995 Chicago heatwave www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/July-2015/1995-Chicago-heat-wave/ [accessed 14/07/16]

Plan National Canicule (heatwave advice in French) www.sante.gouv.fr/canicule-et-chaleurs-extremes.html [accessed 14/07/16]

Where is the world’s hottest city? www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jul/22/where-world-hottest-city-kuwait-karachi-ahvaz [accessed 14/07/16]

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