Urban Climate Change Crossroads

The result of a major international forum held in Rome in 2008, this volume of essays and discussion directly engages climate change discourse as it shifts from mitigation to adaptation; and with particular attention to the urban environment. It represents a new generation of thinking involving not only science, but the broad array of fields that must be called upon to effectively address the global climate crisis: from ecological science to political science; from economics to philosophy to architecture; and from public health to public art. It is a pioneering effort to broaden the discursive field, and is likely to remain a landmark study on the subject for a generation.