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Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities - Emerging Approaches and Tools for A Climate-Sensitive Urban Development (Paperback)
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Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities - Emerging Approaches and Tools for A Climate-Sensitive Urban Development (Paperback)
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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 Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities:
Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban
Development merges a scientific approach with a pragmatic one.
Through a case study approach, the Authors explore strengths and
weaknesses of institutional and informal practices to foreshadow
innovative paths for an adaptive process of urban governance in the
face of climate change. The book guides the reader along new
governance paths, characterized by continuous learning and close
cooperation and communication among different actors and
stakeholders and, in so doing, helps them to overcome current
'siloed' approaches to climate issues.
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