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Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban Development starts with a presentation of three widespread Urban Metaphors, which are gaining increasing attention from urban planners and decision-makers: Smart City, Resilient City and Transition Towns, being all of them focused 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. Then, 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 learnt 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
Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban Development merges a scientific approach with a pragmatic one. Through a case study approach, the Authors explore strengths and weaknesses of institutional and informal practices to foreshadow innovative paths for an adaptive process of urban governance in the face of climate change. The book guides the reader along new governance paths, characterized by continuous learning and close cooperation and communication among different actors and stakeholders and, in so doing, helps them to overcome current ‘siloed’ approaches to climate issues.
Urban Planners, Researchers, Graduate and PhD Students, Practitioners, Resilience Managers, City Managers
FOREWORD
D. Palazzo
INTRODUCTION
A. Galderisi, A. Colucci
SECTION 1
METAPHORS TO ENHANCE CITIES’ CAPACITY TO COPE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE
1. The Smart City Metaphor to Foster Collaborative and Adaptive Decision-Making Processes in the Face of Climate Issues
A. Galderisi
2. The Resilient City Metaphor to Enhance Cities’ Capabilities in the Face of Complexities and Uncertainties Arising from Current and Future Climate Scenarios
A. Galderisi
3. The Transition Approach in Urban Innovations: Local Responses to Climate Change
A. Colucci
4. Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Commonalities, Peculiarities and Hints for Future Approaches
A. Galderisi, A. Colucci
SECTION 2
LARGE-SCALE STRATEGIES TO COUNTERBALANCE CLIMATE CHANGE
5. European Strategies and Initiatives to Tackle Climate Change: Towards an Integrated Approach
A. Galderisi, E. Treccozzi
6. The American Approach to Climate Change: a General Overview and a Focus on Northern and Artic Regions
C. Dezio
7. Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Initiatives in Africa: the Case of the CDKN ‘Working With Informality To Build Resilience In African Cities’ Project
K.N. Owusu-Daaku, S.K. Diko
8. Addressing Climate Change in China: Policies and Governance
G. Heggelund
9. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in the Face of Climate Change: the Australian Approach
G. Forino, J. von Meding, G. Brewer
SECTION 3
CITIES DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE: INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES
10. European Cities Addressing Climate Change
G. Limongi
11. Adaptation and Spatial Planning Responses to Climate Change Impacts in UK: the Case Study of Portsmouth
D. Cillo
12. Land-Use Planning and Climate Change Impacts on Coastal Urban Regions: the Cases of Rostock and Riga
S. Deppisch
13. Importance of Multi Sector Collaboration in Dealing With Climate Change. The Case of Belgrade
R. Čolić, M. Maruna
14. Genoa and Climate Change: Policies and Adaptation
D. F.Bignami, E.Biagi
15. The Evolution of Flooding Resilience: the Case of Barcelona
A. Favaro, L. Chelleri
16. Athens Facing Climate Change: How Low Perceptions and the Economic Crisis Cancel Institutional Efforts
K. Sapountzaki
17. Sustainability of Climate Policy at Local Level: the Case of Gaziantep City
O. Balaban, B. Gedikli
18. Towards Integration: Managing the Divergence between National Climate Change Policies and Urban Planning in Ghana
S.K. Diko
19. Spatial Planning for Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk: Interpretation of the Sponge City Program in Guangzhou, China.
M. Meng, M. Dabrowski, F.K, Shun Chan, D. Stead,
20. Climate Change and Australian Local Governments: Adaptation between Strategic Planning and Challenges in Newcastle (NSW)
G. Forino, J. von Meding, G. Brewer
SECTION 4
CITIES DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE: TRANSITION INITIATIVES
21. Transition Initiatives: Three Exploration Paths
A. Colucci
22. Transition Towns Network in United Kingdom: the Case of Totnes
A. Canzian
23. Transition Towns Network in Italy: the Case of Monteveglio
A. Canzian
24. Model for Integrated Urban Disaster Risk Management at the Local Level: Bottom-Up Initiatives of Academics
M. Maruna, R. Čolić
25. Enhancing Community Resilience in Barcelona: Addressing Climate Change and Social Justice Through Spaces of Co-Management
L.S. Bródy, L. Chelleri, F, Baró, I. Ruiz-Mallen
26 Barriers to Societal Response and a Strategic Action Plan Towards Climate Change Adaptation and Urban Resilience in Turkey
F. Atun
27. Victims or Survivors: Resilience from the Slum Dwellers Perspective in India
D. Andavarapu, D. Edelman, N. Monangi
28. Bottom-Up Initiatives for Climate Change Mitigation: Transition Town in Newcastle
G. Forino, J. von Meding, G. Brewer
SECTION 5
CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES: HINTS FOR INTEGRATED PERSPECTIVES
29. Integrated knowledge in climate change adaptation and risk mitigation to support planning for reconstruction
S. Menoni
30. Boundaries, Overlaps and Conflicts between DRR and Adaptation to CC. Are there Prospects of Integration?
K. Sapountzaki
31. The Contribution of the Economic Thinking to Innovate Disaster Risk Reduction Policies and Action
G. Pesaro
32. Flood Resilient Districts: Integrating Expert and Community Knowledge in Genoa
D. F. Bignami, E. Biagi
SECTION 6
TOWARDS A CLIMATE-SENSITIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
33. Drawing Lessons from Experience
A. Galderisi, A. Colucci34. Future Perspectives: Key Principles for a Climate Sensitive Urban Development
A. Galderisi, A. Colucci
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