Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for A Climate-Sensitive Urban Development 1st Edition Adriana Galderisi – eBook PDF
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Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for A Climate-Sensitive Urban Development – Ebook PDF
Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for A Climate-Sensitive Urban Development – Ebook PDF Instant Delivery – ISBN(s): 9780128114773,0128114770
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0128114770
- ISBN-13 : 978-0128114773
- Author: Adriana Galderisi, Angela Colucci
Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban Development starts with a presentation of three widespread Urban Metaphors, which are gaining increasing attention from urban planners and decision-makers: Smart City, Resilient City and Transition Towns, being all of them focused on the need for enhancing cities’ capacities to cope with the multiple and heterogeneous challenges threatening contemporary cities and their future development and, above all, with climate issues. Then, the Authors provide an overview of current large-scale and urban strategies to counterbalance climate change so far undertaken in different geographical contexts (Europe, United States, China, Africa and Australia), shedding light on the different approaches, on the different weights assigned to mitigation and adaptation issues as well as on the main barriers hindering their effectiveness and translation into measurable outcomes. Opportunities and criticalities arising from the rich, ‘sprawled’ and ‘blurred’ landscape of current strategies and initiatives in the face of climate change pave the way to a discussion on the lessons learnt from current initiatives and provide new hints for developing integrated climate strategies, capable to guide planners and decision makers towards a climate sensitive urban development
Table contents:
SECTION 1 METAPHORS TO ENHANCE CITIES’ CAPACITY TO COPE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE
SECTION 2 LARGE-SCALE STRATEGIES TO COUNTERBALANCE CLIMATE CHANGE
SECTION 3 CITIES DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE: INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES
SECTION 4 CITIES DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE: TRANSITION INITIATIVES
SECTION 5 CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES: HINTS FOR INTEGRATED PERSPECTIVES
SECTION 6 TOWARDS A CLIMATE-SENSITIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
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