Contents – February 2021
CONTENTS February Issue #157 PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS… Social Network Theory and City Planning. […]
CITY PLANNING ARTICLES, CONTENTS
climate change
World is in danger of missing Paris climate target, summit is warned by Fiona Harvey
From the Guardian Minister tells more than 80 world leaders that not enough is being done. The world is still
BOOKS
“A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future” by Daniel C. Esty
FROM AMAZON: Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate
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Extreme events ‘presage worse to come’ in a warming climate
From Yale Climate Connections. Increased fatalities, pain, and costs provide a compelling case for taking action on climate change, three
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Multiple extreme climate events can combine to produce catastrophic damages.
From Yale Climate Connections Concurrent extreme climate events can amount to a challenging ‘two-fer’ or even a ‘three-fer’ in terms
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Evidence shows troubling warming of the planet.
Despite a ‘noisy’ planet, climate evidence over hundreds of years makes a compelling case, one the public by wide margins
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THE BLOOMBERG CARBON CLOCK
In 800,000 years. Before industrialization, carbon dioxide hovered around 280 parts per million. 450 ppm is considered the danger zone
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
FROM AMAZON…“It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of
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Yale Climate Connections…Coming Series.
Four experts share a ‘few simple, clear, and indisputable statements of scientific fact’ on climate change. By Gary Yohe, Benjamin