Further Reading

Biodiversity and EcosystemsAlberti, M. (2005). The effects of urban patterns on ecosystem function. International Regional Science Review, 28(2), pp.168-192.

Boone, C. G., Cook, E., Hall, S. J., Nation, M. L., Grimm, N. B., Raish, C., Finch, D., and York, A. (2012). A comparative gradient approach as a tool for understanding and managing urban ecosystems. Urban Ecosystems, 15(4), pp. 795-807.

de Oliveira, J. A. P., Balaban, O., Doll, C. N. H., Moreno-Penaranda, R., Gasparatos, A., Iossifova, D., et al. (2011). Cities and biodiversity: Perspectives and governance challenges for implementing the convention on biological diversity (CBD) at the city level. Biological Conservation, 144(5), pp.1302-1313.

Grimm, N. B., Foster, D., Groffman, P., Grove, J. M., Hopkinson, C. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J., et al. (2008). The changing landscape: Ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 6(5), pp. 264-272.

Huang, S. -L., Chen, Y. -H., Kuo, F. -Y., & Wang, S. -H. (2011). Emergy-based evaluation of peri-urban ecosystem services. Ecological Complexity, 8, pp. 38-50.

GHG Emissions and the Carbon CycleDodman, D. (2009). Blaming cities for climate change? an analysis of urban greenhouse gas emissions inventories. Environment and Urbanization, 21(1), 185-201.

Fragkias, M., Lobo, J., Strumsky, D., Seto, K. C. (2013). Does size matter? Scaling of CO2 emissions and U.S. urban areas. PLoS ONE, 8(6): e64727.

Gueneralp, B., & Seto, K. C. (2012). Can gains in efficiency offset the resource demands and CO2 emissions from constructing and operating the built environment? Applied Geography, 32(1), 40-50.

Gurney, K. R., Razlivanov, I., Song, Y., Zhou, Y., Benes, B., & Abdul-Massih, M. (2012). Quantification of fossil fuel CO2 emissions on the Building/Street scale for a large US city. Environmental Science & Technology, 46(21), 12194-12202.

Hoornweg, D., Sugar, L., & Gomez, C. L. T. (2011). Cities and greenhouse gas emissions: Moving forward. Environment and Urbanization, 23(1), 207-227.

Huang, S., & Chen, C. (2009). Urbanization and socioeconomic metabolism in Taipei. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 13(1), 75-93.

Hutyra, L. R., Duren, R., Gurney, K. R., Grimm, N., Kort, E. A., Larson, E., et al. (2014). Urbanization and the carbon cycle: Current capabilities and research outlook from the natural sciences perspective. Earths Future, 2(10), 473-495.

Marcotullio, P. J., Hughes, S., Sarzynski, A., Pincetl, S., Sanchez Pena, L., Romero-Lankao, P., et al. (2014). Urbanization and the carbon cycle: Contributions from social science. Earths Future, 2(10), 496-514.

Muller, D. B., Liu, G., Lovik, A. N., Modaresi, R., Pauliuk, S., Steinhoff, F. S., et al. (2013). Carbon emissions of infrastructure development. Environmental Science & Technology, 47(20), 11739-11746.

Water Availability and SustainabilityGober, P. (2010). Desert urbanization and the challenges of water sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2(3), 144-150.

Haase, D. (2009). Effects of urbanisation on the water balance - A long-term trajectory. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 29(4), 211-219.

Hughes, S., Pincetl, S., & Boone, C. (2013). Triple exposure: Regulatory, climatic, and political drivers of water management changes in the city of Los Angeles. Cities, 32, 51-59.

Major, D.C., Dettinger, M., Hanson, R.T., & Sanchez-Rodriguez, R. (2011). Climate change, water, and wastewater in cities. In C. Rosenzweig, W.D. Solecki, S.A. Hammer, & S. Mehrotra (Eds.). Climate Change and Cities: First Assessment Report of the Urban Climate Change Research Network (ARC3). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McDonald, R. I., Green, P., Balk, D., Fekete, B. M., Revenga, C., Todd, M., et al. (2011). Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108(15), 6312-6317.

Food SystemsGodfray, H. C. J., Crute, I. R., Haddad, L., Lawrence, D., Muir, J. F., Nisbett, N., et al. (2010). The future of the global food system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 365(1554), 2769-2777.

Jiang, L., Deng, X.Z., & Seto, K.C. (2013). The impact of urban expansion on agricultural land use intensity in China. Land Use Policy, 35, pp. 33-39.

Romero-Lankao, P., McPhearson T., & Davidson, D. J. (2017). The food-energy-water nexus and urban complexity. Nature Climate Change 7, pp. 233–235.

Satterthwaite, D., McGranahan, G., & Tacoli, C. (2010). Urbanization and its implications for food and farming. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 365(1554), pp. 2809-2820.

Seto, K.C. & Ramankutty, N. (2016). Hidden linkages between urbanization and food systems. Science, 352(6288), pp. 943-945.

Tacoli, C. (2013). Climate change, urbanization and food security: Linking production and consumption. Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 63, 136-136.

Vulnerability and RiskDawson, R. J. (2015). Handling interdependencies in climate change risk assessment. Climate, 3(4), pp.1079-1096.

Garschagen, M., & Romero-Lankao, P. (2015). Exploring the relationships between urbanization trends and climate change vulnerability. Climatic Change, 133(1), pp. 37-52.

Hallegatte, S., Green, C., Nicholls, R.J., & Corfee-Morlot, J. (2013). Future flood losses in major coastal cities. Nature Climate Change, 3(9), pp. 802-806.

Krellenberg, K., Mueller, A., Schwarz, A., Hoefer, R., & Welz, J. (2013). Flood and heat hazards in the metropolitan region of Santiago de Chile and the socio-economics of exposure. Applied Geography, 38, pp. 86-95.

Romero-Lankao, P., Hughes, S., Qin, H., Hardoy, J., Rosas-Huerta, A., Borquez, R., et al. (2014). Scale, urban risk and adaptation capacity in neighborhoods of latin american cities. Habitat International, 42, pp. 224-235.

Simon, D., & Leck, H. (2010). Urbanizing the global environmental change and human security agendas. Climate and Development, 2(3), pp. 263-275.

Air QualityBaklanov, A., Molina, L. T., & Gauss, M. (2016). Megacities, air quality and climate. Atmospheric Environment, 126, pp. 235-249.

Harlan, S. L., & Ruddell, D. M. (2011). Climate change and health in cities: Impacts of heat and air pollution and potential co-benefits from mitigation and adaptation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 3(3), pp.126-134.

Romero-Lankao, P., Qin, H., & Borbor-Cordova, M. (2013). Exploration of health risks related to air pollution and temperature in three Latin American cities. Social Science & Medicine, 83, pp. 110-118.

Von Glasgow, R., Jickells, T.D., Baklanov, A., et al. (2013). Megacities and Large Urban Agglomerations in the Coastal Zone: Interactions Between Atmosphere, Land, and Marine Ecosystems. AMBIO, 42(1), pp. 13-28. doi: 10.1007/s13280-012-0343-9

West, J.J., Cohen, A., Dentener, F., et al. (2016). What We Breathe Impacts Our Health: Improving Understanding of the Link between Air Pollution and Health. Environmental Science and Technology, 50(10), pp. 4895-4904. doi: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03827

HealthHaines, A., Kovats, R.S., Campbell-Lendrum, D., & Corvalan, C. (2006). Climate change and human health: Impacts, vulnerability and public health. Public Health, 120(7), pp. 585-596. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2006.01.002

Harlan, S. L., Chowell, G., Yang, S., Petitti, D. B., Butler, E. J. M., Ruddell, B. L., et al. (2014). Heat-related deaths in hot cities: Estimates of human tolerance to high temperature thresholds. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 11(3), 3304-3326.

Patz, J.A., Campbell-Lendrum, D., Holloway, T., & Foley, J.A. (2005). Impact of regional climate change on human health. Nature, 438(7066), pp. 310-317. doi: 10.1038/nature04188

Proust, K., Newell, B., Brown, H., Capon, A., Browne, C., Burton, A., et al. (2012). Human health and climate change: Leverage points for adaptation in urban environments. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 9(6), 2134-2158.

Puppim de Oliveira, J. A., Doll, C. N. H., Siri, J., Dreyfus, M., Farzaneh, H., & Capon, A. (2015). Urban governance and the systems approaches to health-environment co-benefits in cities. Cadernos De Saude Publica, 31, S25-S38.

Ramaswami, A., Russell, A. G., Culligan, P. J., Sharma, K. R., & Kumar, E. (2016). Meta-principles for developing smart, sustainable, and healthy cities. Science, 352(6288), 940-943.

GovernanceBarton, J. R. (2013). Climate change adaptive capacity in Santiago de Chile: Creating a governance regime for sustainability planning. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 37(6), pp.1916-1933.

Bulkeley, H., & Broto, V. C. (2013). Government by experiment? global cities and the governing of climate change. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 38(3), pp. 361-375.

Bulkeley, H. (2010). Cities and the Governing of Climate Change. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 35, pp. 229-253.

Broto, V. C., & Bulkeley, H. (2013). A survey of urban climate change experiments in 100 cities. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions, 23(1), pp. 92-102.

Sperling, J., Romero-Lankao, P., & Beig, G. (2016). Exploring citizen infrastructure and environmental priorities in Mumbai, India. Environmental Science & Policy, 60, pp.19-27.

Adaptation to Climate ChangeBroto, V. C., Boyd, E., & Ensor, J. (2015). Participatory urban planning for climate change adaptation in coastal cities: Lessons from a pilot experience in Maputo, Mozambique. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 13, 11-18.

Chu, E., Anguelovski, I., & Carmin, J. (2016). Inclusive approaches to urban climate adaptation planning and implementation in the global south. Climate Policy, 16(3), 372-392.

Fünfgeld H., McEvoy, D. (2014). Framing considerations in climate change adaptation policy: Insights from Australian Local Government Planning. Environment & Planning C: Government and Policy, 32(4), pp. 603-622.

Lwasa, S. (2015). A systematic review of research on climate change adaptation policy and practice in Africa and South Asia deltas. Regional Environmental Change, 15(5), pp. 815-824. doi: 10.1007/s10113-014-0715-8

Pelling, M., O’Brien, K., & Matyas, D. (2015). Adaptation and transformation. Climatic Change, 133(1), pp. 113-127.

Revi, A., Satterthwaite, D., Aragon-Durand, F., Corfee-Morlot, J., Kiunsi, R.B.R., Pelling, M., Roberts, D., Solecki, W., Gajjar, S.P., & Sverdlik, A. (2014). Towards transformative adaptation in cities: the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment. Environment and Urbanization, 26(1), pp. 11-28.

Shi, L.D., Chu, E., Anguelovski, I., Aylett, A., Debats, J., Goh, K., Schenk, T., Seto, K.C., Dodman, D., Roberts, D., Roberts, J.T., & VanDeveer, S.D. (2016). Roadmap towards justice in urban climate adaptation research. Nature Climate Change, 6(2), pp. 131-137.

Simon, D. & Leck, H. (eds) (2015). Bearing the Brunt of Environmental Change: Understanding Climate Adaptation and Transfromationin African Cities. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 13, pp. 1-116.

Mitigation of Climate ChangeCreutzig, F., Baiocchi, G., Bierkandt, R., Pichler, P., & Seto, K. C. (2015). Global typology of urban energy use and potentials for an urbanization mitigation wedge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112(20), pp. 6283-6288.

Dhakal, S. (2010). GHG emissions from urbanization and opportunities for urban carbon mitigation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2(4), pp. 277-283.

Lwasa, S., Mugagga, F., Wahab, B., Simon, D., Connors, J., & Griffith, C. (2014). Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry: Transcending poverty alleviation to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Urban Climate, 7, pp. 92-106.

Solecki, W., Seto, K.C., Balk, D., Bigio, A., Boone, C.G., Creutzig, F., Fragkias, M., Lwasa, S., Marcotullio, P., Romero-Lankao, P., & Zwickel, T. (2015). A conceptual framework for an urban areas typology to integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation, Urban Climate, 14, pp. 116-137.

Zhou, Y., & Shepherd, J.M. (2010). Atlanta’s urban heat island under extreme heat conditions and potential mitigation strategies. Natural Hazards, 52(3), pp. 639-668.

Social and Environmental JusticeBulkeley, H., Edwards, G. A. S., & Fuller, S. (2014). Contesting climate justice in the city: Examining politics and practice in urban climate change experiments. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions, 25, pp. 31-40.

Caprotti, F. (2014). Eco-urbanism and the eco-city, or, denying the right to the city? Antipode, 46(5), 1285-1303.

Heynen, N., Perkins, H.A., & Roy, P. (2006). The political ecology of uneven urban green space – The impact of political economy on race and ethnicity in producing environmental inequality in Milwaukee. (2006). Urban Affairs Review, 42(1), pp. 3-25. doi: 10.1177/107808740629072

Rogers, D. S., Duraiappah, A. K., Antons, D. C., Munoz, P., Bai, X., Fragkias, M., et al. (2012). A vision for human well-being: Transition to social sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 4(1), 61-73.

Wloch, J.R., Byrne, J., & Newell, J.P. (2014). Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’. Landscape and Urban Planning, 125, pp. 234-244. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.01.017

Greening and the EconomyBrown, D., & McGranahan, G. (2016). The urban informal economy, local inclusion and achieving a global green transformation. Habitat International, 53, pp. 97-105.

Luederitz, C., Brink, E., Gralla, F., Hermelingmeier, V., Meyer, M., Niven, L., et al. (2015). A review of urban ecosystem services: Six key challenges for future research. Ecosystem Services, 14, pp. 98-112.

de Oliveira, J.A.P., Doll, C.N.H., Balaban, O., Jiang, P., Dreyfus, M., Suwa, A., Moreno-Penaranda, R., & Dirgahayani, P. (2013). Green economy and governance in cities: assessing good governance in key urban economic processes. Journal of Cleaner Production, 58, pp. 138-152.

Luederitz, C., Brink, E., Gralla, F., Hermelingmeier, V., Meyer, M., Niven, L., et al. (2015). A review of urban ecosystem services: Six key challenges for future research. Ecosystem Services, 14, pp. 98-112.

Norton, B. A., Coutts, A. M., Livesley, S. J., Harris, R. J., Hunter, A. M., & Williams, N. S. G. (2015). Planning for cooler cities: A framework to prioritise green infrastructure to mitigate high temperatures in urban landscapes. Landscape and Urban Planning, 134, 127-138.

Simon, D. (2013). Climate and environmental change and the potential for greening African cities. Local Economy: Special Issue on ‘Resurgent African Cities?’ 28(2), pp. 203-217.

Low-carbon Urban TransitionsBulkeley, H., Broto, V. C., & Maassen, A. (2014). Low-carbon transitions and the reconfiguration of urban infrastructure. Urban Studies, 51(7), 1471-1486.

Bulkeley, H., Castan Broto, V., Hodson, M., & Marvis, S. (Eds.) (2011). Cities and Low Carbon Transitions. Routledge: London.

Mohareb, E., Derrible, S., & Peiravian, F. (2016). Intersections of Jane Jacobs' Conditions for Diversity and Low-Carbon Urban Systems: A Look at Four Global Cities. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 142(2), 05015004-01-14.

Moloney, S., & Horne, R. (2015). Low carbon urban transitioning: From local experimentationto urban transformation? Sustainability, 7(3), 2437-2453.

Pincetl, S., Chester, M., Circella, G., Fraser, A., Mini, C., Murphy, S., et al. (2014). Enabling futuresustainability transitions an urban metabolism approach to Los Angeles. Journal of Industrial Ecology, 18(6), 871-882.