Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation
- 1st Edition - September 16, 2022
- Latest edition
- Authors: Ayyoob Sharifi, Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir
- Language: English
Uniquely focused on the contributions smart cities can make to climate change resilience, Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation offers evidence-based scientific solutions for im… Read more
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Description
Description
Uniquely focused on the contributions smart cities can make to climate change resilience, Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation offers evidence-based scientific solutions for improving cities’ abilities to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to global climate-related events. Beginning with the observation of global environmental change, this book explores what sustainable smart projects are, how they are adopted and evaluated, and how they can address climate change challenges. It brings together a wide variety of disciplines such as planning, transportation, and waste management to address issues related to climate change adaptation and mitigation in cities.In general, many social science researchers lack cohesive, broad-based literature knowledge; Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation bridges this gap and informs different types of stakeholders on how they can enhance their preparation abilities to enable real-time responses and actions. Therefore, it is a valuable reference for researchers, professors, graduate students, city planners, and policy makers.
Application-focused throughout, this book explores the complexities of urban systems and subsystems to support researchers, planners, and decision makers in their efforts toward developing more climate-resilient smart cities.
Key features
Key features
- Provides a structured in-depth analysis of smart city cases from around the world
- Introduces evidence-based toolkits and frameworks for assessing actual and/or potential contributions of smart city solutions to climate resilience
- Includes state-of-the-art literature review and glossary
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Urbanization in the context of global environmental change
2. Climate change adaptation and mitigation in cities
3. Smart cities: Key definitions and new directions
4. Smart city solutions and climate change ADAPTATION: An overview
5. Smart city solutions and climate change mitigation: An overview
6. The fundamentals of smart city assessment
7. Assessment tools and indicators for smart city assessment
8. The extend of inclusion of smart city indicators in existing urban sustainability assessment tools
9. Indicators to assess contributions of smart city solutions and technologies to urban resilience
10. Contributions of smart technologies to disaster resilience
11. A typology analysis of smart city projects around the world
12. Urban scale climate change adaptation through smart technologies
13. Automated object extraction of satellite imagery to estimate the loss of vegetative land cover and inform climate adaptation actions in San Antonio, Texas
14. Smart transformation in Iran, a step toward adaptation and reduction of climate change
15. Technological solutions for adaptation with Iran’s water resources crisis
16. The way forward for data-driven and climate-resilient cities
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: September 16, 2022
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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