The Risk City Cities Countering Climate Change: Emerging Planning Theories and Practices around the World /

• Main Author: Jabareen, Yosef (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Energy, 29
• Subjects: Energy.; Energy efficiency.; Climate change.; Architecture.; Buildings > Design and construction.; Building.; Construction.; Engineering, Architectural.; Environmental economics.; Energy Efficiency (incl. Buildings).; Climate Change Management and Policy.; Building Construction.; Cities, Countries, Regions.; Environmental Economics.

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 th...