Vulnerability. Resilience and the collapse of socieiy: A review of models and possible climatic applications. Peter Timmerman, Environmental Monograph No. 1, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto, 1981, No. of pages: 42. Price: $7.50
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- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1981
- Weight
- 127 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 2314-6214
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✦ Synopsis
BOOK REWEW!3
The Editor-in-Chief @ I .
E. Landsberg) of the World Swmy of Climatology is responsible for Chapter 3 on City Climates. H. E. Landsberg is a distinguished climatologist who is now Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland. H i s chapter is an excellent summary of our present knowledge of urban climates. Descriptions of urban climates are often purely qualitative and are not concerned with mathematical models. Landsberg gives particular attention to mathematical models of urban climates and he quotes several equations describing urban-rural temperature diiTerences. He starts by considering urban models and tries to define city climates. He then in turn considers