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Title Resilient urban futures / Zoé A. Hamstead, David M. Iwaniec, Timon McPhearson, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Elizabeth M. Cook, Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson, editors
Published Cham : Springer, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 190 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Urban book series, 2365-757X
Urban book series. 2365-757X
Contents A framework for resilient urban futures -- How we got here -- Social, ecological and technological strategies for climate adaptation -- Mapping vulnerability to weather extremes -- Producing and communicating flood risk
Summary This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for more resilient futures, earnest collaboration across disciplines, and radical reconfigurations of the power regimes that have institutionalized the disenfranchisement of minority groups. Although planning processes consider visions for the future, the editors highlight a more ambitious long-term positive visioning approach that accounts for unpredictability, system dynamics and equity in decision-making. This volume brings the science of urban transformation together with practices of professionals who govern and manage our social, ecological and technological systems to design processes by which cities may achieve resilient urban futures in the face of climate change
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed April 19, 2021)
Subject City planning -- Climatic factors.
Climatic changes.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban ecology (Biology)
Climate Change
climate change.
urban environments.
City planning -- Climatic factors
Climatic changes
Urban ecology (Biology)
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Form Electronic book
Author Hamstead, Zoé A., editor
Iwaniec, David M., editor
McPhearson, Timon, editor.
Berbés-Blázquez, Marta, editor
Cook, Elizabeth M., editor
Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A., editor
ISBN 9783030631314
3030631311