Resilient Urban Futures (1st ed. 2021) (The Urban Book Series)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783030631314

Related ISBNs:

9783030631307

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

06/30/21

Copyrighted By:

This is a U.S. government work and not under copyright protection in the U.S.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson

Edited by:

Elizabeth M. Cook

Edited by:

Marta Berbés-Blázquez

Edited by:

Timon McPhearson

Edited by:

David M. Iwaniec

Edited by:

Zoé A. Hamstead