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  title info:
    title: Resilient Cities 2
    sub title: Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011
  name:
    name part: Otto-Zimmermann, Konrad.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: L, 438 p. online resource.
  abstract: Despite the cynicism of skeptics, climate change really is happening, and its effects will be most pronounced in cities. Many are vulnerable to small rises in sea level, while urbanisation is adding demographically derived stresses to already-pressurised urban ecosystem services. The combination of these factors suggests that efforts to respond to the negative impacts of climate change will have to be made at the local level, even as we collectively continue the important work of shaping and implementing adaptation and mitigation actions. In examining the most likely consequences of this ‘double whammy’ of environmental and population impacts on urban areas, this book makes clear the need to incorporate climate change concerns into the mainstream of local planning, governance and policy making practices. By offering the conceptual framework for adaptation and implementation within cities, along with more practical adaptation measures, the authors demonstrate the key role cities must play in the fight against climate change. With urban communities as various as Copenhagen, Mexico City and Ho Chi Minh City already enacting policy proposals such as ‘climate-proofing’ their infrastructure, there is much that other cities can learn from those in the vanguard. Assembling papers originally presented at the Resilient Cities 2011 Congress in Bonn, Germany (June 2011), the second global forum on cities and adaptation to climate change, this volume is the second in a series resulting from this annual event. These cutting-edge papers represent the latest research on the topic and reflect the intensification of the debate on the meaning of and interaction between climate adaptation, risk reduction and broader resilience.
  table of contents: Foreword -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. The Global Adaptation Community Expands Its Scope -- Part II: Urban Risk and Assessing Vulnerability at the Local Level -- 2. Introduction: Urban Risk and Assessing Vulnerability at the Local Level -- 3. A Region at Risk: Policy Determination Through Vulnerability Hotspot Assessment -- 4. Developing a Framework For Assessing Coastal Vulnerability To Sea Level Rise in Southern New England -- 5. Quantifying Impacts of Potential Sea-Level Rise Scenarios on Irish Coastal Cities -- 6. Mapping Risk and Vulnerability in São Paulo Metropolitan Region -- 7. Water Crisis: Public Management of a Critical Situation -- 8. Environmental Assessment and Restoration of Typhoon Morakot Disaster: A Case Study of Kaohsiung -- 9. Flood Risk Protection Concept For The Urban Region Geising/Altenberg in the Flood Formation Area.-of the Eastern Ore Mountains, Germany -- Part III: Toward The Resilient City -- 10. Introduction: Toward the Resilient City -- 11. Water, Food and Energy Security -- 12. Nature at the Heart of Urban Design For Resilience -- 13. Smart City: Energy Efficiency in a New Scope -- 14. Resilient Food Systems For Resilient Cities -- 15. Urban Agriculture Casablanca -- 16. Adapting Cities To Climate Change: Scenarios For Urban Neighborhoods in the City Of Essen -- 17. Combining Urban Development With Climate Change Adaptation Using A Systems Approach -- 18. Towards A Resilient Architecture: The Case of Brøset, Trondheim, Norway -- 19. Towards More Resilient Water Infrastructures -- 20. Building ‘Equitable’ Urban Resilience: The Challenge For Cities -- 21. Climate Change and the Urban Poor: Support of the German Development Cooperation To a City in Bangladesh -- 22. The Green Infrastructure Transect: An Organisational Framework For Mainstreaming Adaptation Planning Policies -- Part IV: Frameworks For Local Response To Climate Change - Challenges and Recommendations -- 23. Introduction: Frameworks For Local Response To Climate Change - C…
  note: edited by Konrad Otto-Zimmermann.
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Regional planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: City planning
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable development
  subject:
    topic: Human geography
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Urbanism
  subject:
    topic: Sustainable Development
  subject:
    topic: Human Geography
  subject:
    topic: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
  classification: QC902.8-903.2
  classification: 577.27
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Local Sustainability, 2
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