Resilient Urban Futures

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 imp...

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Main Authors Hamstead, Zoé A, Iwaniec, David M, McPhearson, Timon, Berbés-Blázquez, Marta, Cook, Elizabeth M, Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham Springer Nature 2021
Springer International Publishing AG
National Science Foundation
Edition1
SeriesThe Urban Book Series
Subjects
Book Industry Communication
cities
Climate change
Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts
Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
Earth System Sciences
Environmental Social Sciences
Future Scenarios
Open Access Urban Book
Pollution & threats to the environment
Regional & area planning
Sustainability
Sustainability Science
Sustainable Development
The environment
towns
Urban & municipal planning
Urban Futures
Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities
Urban Geography and Urbanism
Urban Resilience
Urban Transformation
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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.
ISBN:9783030631314
3030631311
3030631303
9783030631307
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-63131-4