Maintaining climate change experiments: Urban political ecology and the everyday reconfiguration of urban infrastructure

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1934-1948

  Broto, Vanesa Castán ^a   Bulkeley, Harriet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bangalore; Climate change; Experiments; India; Infrastructure; Maintenance; Mexico; Monterrey; Urban political ecology

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN AREA; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN PLANNING;

BANGALORE; INDIA; KARNATAKA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MONTERREY; NUEVO LEON;

EID: 84886281793     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12050     Document Type: Article

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