URCM Science Question 1
How do urbanization and the global carbon cycle interact globally through population, affluence, energy and other biophysical and socioeconomic mechanisms?
Category: Science Questions
- 5th Urban Research Symposium: Cities and Climate Change - Responding to an Urgent Agenda
- A blueprint for the integrated assessment of climate change in cities
- An assessment of urban development pathways for Delhi using emission trajectories
- Are we missing the point? Urbanization, sustainability and carbon emissions in Latin American cities
- Are we missing the point?: Particularities of urbanization, sustainability and carbon emissions in Latin American cities
- Bigger Cities – Bigger Pictures: Developing Urban Metabolism Analysis in the Context of Urban Planning
- Blaming cities for climate change? An analysis of urban greenhouse gas emissions inventories
- Bridging the research gaps for carbon emissions and their management in cities
- Can cities reduce global warming? Urban development and the carbon cycle in Latin America
- Carbon emissions and mitigations: Lessons from cross-city analyses in Asia
- Carbon stabilization in urban and urbanizing soils: the effects of historical land use
- Challenges of Urban and Regional Carbon Management and the Scientific Response
- Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements 2011
- Cities and climate change: urban sustainability and global environmental governance
- Cities as Agents of Global Change
- Cities in transition: transforming urban centers from hotbeds of GHG emissions and vulnerability to seedbeds of sustainability and resilience: Introduction and Editorial overview
- Cities' contribution to global warming: notes on the allocation of greenhouse gas emissions
- Climate Change and Cities: Integrated Assessment of Impacts, Adaptation and Mitigation
- Climate Change and Food Security in Cities
- Climate Change and Food Security in Cities - Presentation
- Climate change and health in cities: impacts of heat and air pollution and potential co-benefits from mitigation and adaptation
- Climate change and migration in Nairobi
- Climate change and migration in Nairobi - Presentation
- CO2 emissions: trends and future pathways (Houston, we have a problem)
- Comparative Study of Energy and Carbon Emissions Development Pathways and Climate Policy in Southeast Asian Cities - Conference Paper
- Comparative Study of Energy and Carbon Emissions Development Pathways and Climate Policy in Southeast Asian Cities - Presentation
- Comparison of Cities in the World - A View of the Data on Urban Form, Urban Transportation, and Energy Consumption
- Decarbonising Cities: From Models to Competing Pathways
- Detecting carbon signatures of development patterns across a gradient of urbanization: Linking observations, models, and scenarios
- Detecting carbon signatures of development patterns across a gradient of urbanization: Linking observations, models, and scenarios - Presentation
- Energy and Material Flow Through the Urban Ecosystem
- Energy balance of urban quarters for the development of energy efficiency and management strategies - Conference Paper
- Energy balance of urban quarters for the development of energy efficiency and management strategies - Presentation
- Energy Consumption and CO2 emissions in urban counties in the United States with a case study of the New-York Metropolitan Area - Conference Paper
- Energy Consumption and CO2 emissions in urban counties in the United States with a case study of the New-York Metropolitan Area - Presentation
- Energy efficient urban form: Carbon implications of reducing urban sprawl in United States
- Energy Flow Indicators in Cities: The Retail Park Service Sector
- Energy Use in Cities
- Energy use in Hong Kong: Part I, an overview
- Energy use in Hong Kong: Part II, sector end-use analysis
- Energy use in Hong Kong: Part III, spatial and temporal patterns
- Energy use in Hong Kong: Part IV. Socioeconomic distribution, patterns of personal energy use, and the energy slave syndrome
- Energy-Efficient Urban Form
- Environmental migration and cities in the context of global environmental change
- Estimating the urban metabolism of Canadian cities: Greater Toronto Area case study
- Evaluation of Mexico City black carbon in the Izta-Popo National Park
- Evidence for a significant urbanization effect on climate in China
- Forces driving urban greenhouse gas emissions
- GHG Emissions, Urban Mobility and Efficiency of Urban Morphology: A Hypothesis - Conference Paper
- GHG Emissions, Urban Mobility and Efficiency of Urban Morphology: A Hypothesis - Presentation
- Global Carbon Project: 10 Years of Advancing Knowledge on the Global Carbon Cycle and its Management
- Global Patterns of City Size Distributions and Their Fundamental Drivers
- Greenhouse Gas Emission Baselines for Global Cities and Metropolitan Regions - Conference Paper
- Greenhouse Gas Emission Baselines for Global Cities and Metropolitan Regions - Presentation
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Baselines for Global Cities and Metropolitan Regions
- Growing cooler: the evidence on urban development and climate change
- How urbanization affects energy-use in developing countries
- Human settlements and industrial systems
- Impact of urban sprawl on carbon uptake in Beijing metropolitan area
- Impacts of urbanization in Europe on the regional carbon fluxes
- Importance of urban carbon management and prevailing gaps in scientific understanding and policy discussions
- Importance of urban carbon management in global carbon management
- Integrated regional carbon analysis from anthropogenic and biospheric sources and sinks: a Colorado application of a holistic framework to evaluate the urban-rural interface
- Integrating carbon management into development strategies of cities – establishing a network of case studies of urbanisation in the Asia-Pacific
- Japanese Urban Environment
- Linking Societal Metabolism and Urban Metabolism: tracking biophysical flows across scales and dimensions
- Local and Regional CO2 Emissions Estimates for 2004 for the UK
- London’s ecological footprint: a review
- Low Carbon Transport in Asia: Strategies for Optimizing Co-benefits
- Mapping of the CO2 and anthropogenic heat emission under spatially explicit urban land use scenarios
- Mathematical Model of Urban Metabolism: Linking Material Stocks to Energy Flows
- Modeling the carbon cycle of urban systems
- Modeling the Urban Component of the Carbon Cycle
- Modelling carbon dynamics from urban land conversion: fundamental model of city in relation to a local carbon cycle
- Outcomes of the Global Carbon Project's first international conference on carbon management at urban and regional levels
- Overview of Global Carbon Emissions and the Nature of Carbon Management Challenges
- Quantifying the role of urban ecosystems on terrestrial carbon cycling
- Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America
- Something borrowed, everything new: innovation and institutionalization in urban climate governance
- Spatial configuration and the urban carbon footprint
- Sustainable Urban Energy Systems in China
- The carbon footprint of nations – a global, trade-linked analysis
- The Challenge Facing Cities Across the World in Coping with the Sustainability Crisis
- The Contribution of Cities to Global Warming and their Potential Contributions to Solutions
- The dynamics of a carbon-based metropolis
- The Footprint of Urban Areas on Global Climate as Characterized by MODIS
- The Global Carbon Cycle
- The Global Carbon Project and urban and regional carbon management
- The Human Perturbation of Carbon Cycle
- The implications of population growth and urbanization for climate change
- The influence of the urban heat island over building energy demand: the case of Milan
- The Scale of Urban Change Worldwide 1950-2005
- The UN Population Division Urban Database
- Update on CO2 emissions
- Urban Agglomeration Economies in Climate Policy:
A CGE Modeling Analysis - Urban ecosystems and the North American carbon cycle
- Urban Energy Transitions
- Urban Energy Use and CO2 Emission from Cities of China
- Urban Futures
- Urban Transformation and Carbon Footprint of Mega-Cities in Japan and China
- Urbanisation and the global carbon cycle: links, drivers and implications
- Urbanisation processes and global environmental change
- Urbanised territories as a specific component of the Global Carbon Cycle
- Urbanization and the carbon cycle reflections for a research agenda and the science -practice interface
- Urbanization in Southeast Asia: assessing policy process and progress toward sustainability
- Urbanization: What Can the Experience of the Last 1000 Years Tell us for Modeling the Next 100?
- World urbanization prospects: The 2005 revision
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