Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities - Emerging Approaches and Tools for A Climate-Sensitive Urban Development (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2018
First published:	2018
Authors:	Adriana Galderisi • Angela Colucci
Dimensions:	235 x 191mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-0-12-811477-3
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Applied physics & special topics > Atmospheric physics Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Meteorology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-12-811477-0
Barcode:	9780128114773

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