Overview
- Describes the urgent challenge faced by cities worldwide to become resilient to climate change impacts
- Explores how the resilience journey for coastal cities in particular encompasses using scientific knowledge but also the knowledge of citizens and practitioners
- A valuable resource for scholars, students, practitioners and policy makers interested in the development of resilient and sustainable urban environments
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies (PSCRS)
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This book describes the urgent challenge faced by cities worldwide to become resilient to climate change impacts. This challenge goes further than the ability to resist the impacts of extreme weather conditions. Coping with climate impacts and the ability to recover from them are equally important, as well as the capacity to adapt to the effects of climate change and the ability to transform the entire urban system. The book explores how the resilience journey for coastal cities in particular encompasses using scientific knowledge but also the knowledge of citizens and practitioners. Measures and strategies on different scales are needed, from national scale all the way down to neighbourhood, street level and building level. Representing the holistic nature of climate resilience, this collection contains unique insights from leading scientists and practitioners in areas of expertise such as engineering, social sciences and urban design. It will be a valuable resource for scholars, students, practitioners and policy makers interested in the development of resilient and sustainable urban environments.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther is Applied Research Professor of Water Innovation at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. He is a civil engineer, entrepreneur and researcher. Rutger is director and founding partner of three water innovation companies: DeltaSync, Blue21 and Indymo.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate Resilient Urban Areas
Book Subtitle: Governance, design and development in coastal delta cities
Editors: Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57537-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57536-6Published: 18 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57539-7Published: 19 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57537-3Published: 17 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-8124
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8132
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 218
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment Studies, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change, Environmental Geography, Environmental Management, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)