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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Risk City
    sub title: Cities Countering Climate Change: Emerging Planning Theories and Practices around the World
  name:
    name part: Jabareen, Yosef.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 204 p. 36 illus. online resource.
  abstract: Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots, terror, and climate change threats. This book suggests that climate change and its resulting uncertainties challenge the concepts, procedures, and scope of conventional approaches to planning, creating a need to rethink and revise current planning methods. Therefore, this book suggests a paradigm shift in our thinking, interrogation, and planning of our cities. Based on the contemporary conditions of risk at cities, this book conceptualizes the risk city as a construct of three interlinked concepts of risk, trust, and practice. It is a construct of risk and its new evolving conditions and knowledge of uncertainties stem from climate change and other risks and uncertainties. As a construct of practices, the risk city produces social and political institutional framework and promotes practices accordingly in order to reduce risk and risk possibilities and to increase trust. In light of the complex challenges and risks to the human habitat that have emerged in recent years, many cities have prepared various types of plans aimed at addressing the challenges posed by climate change. Nonetheless, despite the importance of these plans and the major public resources invested in their formulation, we still know little about them and have yet to begin studying them and assessing their contributions . From the innovative perspective of the risk city, this book asks critical questions about the nature, vision, practices, and potential impact of the recent climate change-oriented plans. What kinds of risks do they attempt to address, what types of practices do they institute, and what types of approaches do they apply? Do they adequately address the risks and uncertainties posed? How do they contribute to the worldwide effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? This book uses the methodologically inno…
  table of contents: List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Theorizing the Risk City -- 3: Planning Practices for Cities Countering Climate Change -- 4: Assessment Methods: Planning Practices Countering Climate Change -- 5: Planning Practices of the Risk City around the World -- 6: Applying the Countering Climate Change Evaluation Method to a City Plan -- 7: Contemporary Planning of the Risk City: The Case of New York City.- 8: The Risk City Resilience Trajectory.- 9: The Deficient Resilient Cities: Hurricane Sandy in New York City -- 10: Vulnerability and uncertainty of extreme space weather events.- 11: The Urban Vulnerability Matrix -- Bibliography.
  note: by Yosef Jabareen.
  subject:
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Energy efficiency
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
  subject:
    topic: Buildings
    topic: Design and construction
  subject:
    topic: Building
  subject:
    topic: Construction
  subject:
    topic: Engineering, Architectural
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Energy
  subject:
    topic: Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings)
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change Management and Policy
  subject:
    topic: Building Construction
  subject:
    topic: Cities, Countries, Regions
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  classification: T58.8
  classification: 658.26
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Lecture Notes in Energy, 29
  identifier: 9789401797689
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9768-9
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    record creation date: 150423
    record change date: 20151204164204.0
    record identifier: 978-94-017-9768-9