Climate Resilient Urban Areas
Governance, design and development in coastal delta cities
Editors: de Graaf, Rutger (Ed.)
Free Preview- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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The Five Pillars of Climate Resilience
Pages 1-19
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Integration of Water Management and Urban Design for Climate Resilient Cities
Pages 21-43
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Climate Resilient Urban Retrofit at Street Level
Pages 45-66
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Flood Resilience of Critical Buildings: Assessment Methods and Tools
Pages 67-83
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Recovery Capacity: To Build Back Better
Pages 85-108
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Climate Resilient Urban Areas
- Book Subtitle
- Governance, design and development in coastal delta cities
- Editors
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- Rutger de Graaf
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-57537-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-57537-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-57536-6
- Series ISSN
- 2523-8124
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 218
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
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