Smart, resilient and transition cities: emerging approaches and tools for a climate-sensitive urban development / edited by Adriana Galderisi and Angela Colucci
Contributor(s): Galderisi, Adriana [editor,, author.] | Colucci, Angela [editor,, author.].
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BookPublisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Copyright date: ©2018Description: xix, 299 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0128114770; 9780128114773.Subject(s): City planning -- Environmental aspects | Smart cities | Sustainable urban development | City planning -- Environmental aspects | Smart cities | Sustainable urban developmentDDC classification: 307.1216/GAS Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: Focuses 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. 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 learned 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Focuses 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. 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 learned 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.
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