Overview
- Offers a diverse set of case studies and practical solutions
- Presents the sobering facts of climate change and its implications for cities
- Unique insights from accomplished thinkers within the adaptation community
- Critical examination of key concepts within the field of climate adaptation
- Links the urgent goals of urban climate adaptation with sustainable development
- Represents the results of the first global forum on cities and adaptation to climate change
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Local Sustainability (LOCAL, volume 1)
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Table of contents (53 papers)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Describing Impacts at the Local Level
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Describing impacts at the local level
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Frameworks for Local Action – Challenges and Proactive Recommendations
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Frameworks for local action: Challenges and proactive recommendations
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About this book
Even with significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, a certain degree of climate change will inevitably occur. Adapting to climate change, then, will become a necessary step in reducing the vulnerability of many regions across the globe. This is especially true for urban areas where climate change has been shown to have particularly destabilizing effects. Through the identification and analysis of the most relevant impacts facing urban areas, this book makes clear the need to incorporate climate change concerns into the mainstream of local planning, governance and policy making practices. Adaptation as a workable concept within urban areas cannot be treated in isolation from the many pre-existing challenges facing cities. By offering numerous examples of ongoing adaptation programs and strategies across a wide range of contexts, the authors show the growing potential of cities in the fight against climate change.
This book has its origins in a collection of papers originally presented at the Resilient Cities 2010 Congress in Bonn, Germany (May 2010), the first global forum on cities and adaptation to climate change, convened by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability. In this volume, the first in a new series dedicated to this annual event, a range of contributors bring their perspectives to bear on the most pressing issues and controversies surrounding adaptation to climate change within cities. These writings will prove invaluable to anyone interested in understanding and confronting climate change at the local level.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilient Cities
Book Subtitle: Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change - Proceedings of the Global Forum 2010
Editors: Konrad Otto-Zimmermann
Series Title: Local Sustainability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0785-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0784-9Published: 18 May 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3612-2Published: 15 July 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0785-6Published: 16 May 2011
Series ISSN: 2211-2782
Series E-ISSN: 2211-2790
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XLIV, 576
Topics: Climate Change, Urbanism, Sustainable Development, Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning