Real world cities are not necessarily sustainable. The denser a city the greater the heat island effect. What do we do then to combat this? It seems counter intuitive as dense cities should achieve better resource use and better resource distribution. Will this create a negative offset when compared to the additional energy required to mitigate the heat island effect?
Addressing climate change through a sectoral, traditionally economic, cost benefit approach is common practice. Are cost benefit approaches equivalent to life cycle analysis and are life cycle analysis of everything even possible? It seems we are doomed to be making decisions which are nearly impossible to holistically evaluate. Taxation, trade policies, and technological approaches that do not adequately reflect the social infrastructure and consequences of such methods are just unknown.
Are countries with high corruption ratings most susceptible to climate impacts?
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