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Book Synopsis The Application of Climate Change Interventions in City Planning by : Pemphe Philimon Kalanga
Download or read book The Application of Climate Change Interventions in City Planning written by Pemphe Philimon Kalanga and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master's Thesis from the year 2021 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, , course: Climate Change and Sustainable Development, language: English, abstract: The aim of the study was to explore the application of climate change adaptation interventions in city planning for building a resilient city of Chipata. The research objectives were to analyze the climate change adaptation interventions used by city planners, to assess the inclusion of policies and legislations related to adaptation interventions in city planning, and to examine challenges faced by city residents in relation to climate change effects. Since cities are intense centers of population and are home to over half of the world’s assets and economic activities, any impact or disruption, be it natural or human caused, has the impending prospective effect to the majority. For instance, floods will affect vast numbers in the city, while the same degree of floods will affect a few if it occurred in rural set up, since rural households are scattered compared to those in the city. With the pervasive threats of climate change effects on Cities, the application of Climate Change adaption interventions into City Planning is becoming a prime issue. Climate Change will contribute significantly to the multiplication of urban risks and achieving the agenda for 2030 on Sustainable Cities will prove futile without first addressing climate change concerns. The question, however, is, has cities in Zambia integrated climate change concerns in their planning of cities? City planning involves, among other issues, land use which would help to reduce the number of properties at risk to flooding and storm water damage, infrastructure development through building codes and design standards for more resilient structures to flooding. Other factors involved in city planning include; city services, ecological planning, strong and waste management, housing and building improvement, and site plan. Planning of City cannot be circumvented if climate change is to be methodically tacked in cities. While there is an urgent need for urban planners to develop a robust and clear strategy for dealing with climate impacts, there is very little knowledge about how planners and households are able to address the challenges posed by climate change. Further, much attention in climate change fight has centered on national level actions and much of these interventions are done in an ad-hoc manner, with little knowledge about such actions being carried out in particular cities.
Book Synopsis Climate Change and Cities by : Cynthia Rosenzweig
Download or read book Climate Change and Cities written by Cynthia Rosenzweig and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Change and Cities bridges science-to-action for climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts in cities around the world.
Book Synopsis Planning for Climate Change by : Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield
Download or read book Planning for Climate Change written by Elisabeth M. Hamin Infield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design, using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue. The Reader’s particular focus is how the impacts of climate change can be addressed in urban and suburban environments—what actions can be taken, as well as the need for and the process of climate planning. Both reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as adapting to future climate are explored. Many of the emerging best practices in this field involve improving the green infrastructure of the city and region—providing better on-site stormwater management, more urban greening to address excess heat, zoning for regional patterns of open space and public transportation corridors, and similar actions. These actions may also improve current public health and livability in cities, bringing benefits now and into the future. This Reader is innovative in bringing climate adaptation and green infrastructure together, encouraging a more hopeful perspective on the great challenge of climate change by exploring both the problems of climate change and local solutions.
Book Synopsis Planning for Climate Change by : Simin Davoudi
Download or read book Planning for Climate Change written by Simin Davoudi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-02 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is changing the context of spatial planning and shaping its priorities. It has strengthened its environmental dimension and has become a new rationale for coordinating actions and integrating different policy priorities. This book sets out the economic, social and environmental challenges that climate change raises for urban and regional planners and explores current and potential responses. These are set within the context of recent research and scholarly works on the role of spatial planning in combating climate change. Addressing both mitigation measures for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to the effects of climate change, the book provides an overview of emerging practice, with analysis of the drivers of policy change and practical implementation of measures. It scopes planning issues and opportunities at different spatial scales, drawing on both the UK and international experiences and highlighting the need to link global and local responses to shared risks and opportunities.
Book Synopsis Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities by : Chao Ren
Download or read book Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities written by Chao Ren and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume demonstrates how urban climate science can provide valuable information for planning healthy cities. The book illustrates the idea of "Science in Time, Science in Place" by providing worldwide case-based urban climatic planning applications for a variety of regions and countries, utilizing relevant climatic-spatial planning experiences to address local climatic and environmental health issues. Comprised of three major sections entitled "The Rise of Mega-cities and the Concept of Climate Resilience and Healthy Living," "Urban Climate Science in Action," and "Future Challenges and the Way Forward," the book argues for the recognition of climate as a key element of healthy cities. Topics covered include: urban resilience in a climate context, climate responsive planning and urban climate interventions to achieve healthy cities, climate extremes, public health impact, urban climate-related health risk information, urban design and planning, and governance and management of sustainable urban development. The book will appeal to an international audience of practicing planners and designers, public health and built environment professionals, social scientists, researchers in epidemiology, climatology and biometeorology, and international to city scale policy makers. Chapter “Manchester: The Role of Urban Domestic Gardens in Climate Adaptation and Resilience” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Book Synopsis Adapting Cities to Climate Change by : David Dodman
Download or read book Adapting Cities to Climate Change written by David Dodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. Framed by an overview of the main possibilities and constraints for adaptation, the contributors examine the implications of climate change for cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and propose innovative agendas for adaptation. The book should be of interest to policy makers, practitioners and academics who face the challenge of addressing climate change vulnerability and adaptation in urban centres throughout the global South. Published with E&U and International Institute for Environment and Development
Book Synopsis Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas by : Nadja Kabisch
Download or read book Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas written by Nadja Kabisch and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book brings together research findings and experiences from science, policy and practice to highlight and debate the importance of nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation in urban areas. Emphasis is given to the potential of nature-based approaches to create multiple-benefits for society. The expert contributions present recommendations for creating synergies between ongoing policy processes, scientific programmes and practical implementation of climate change and nature conservation measures in global urban areas. Except where otherwise noted, this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Book Synopsis Urban Meteorology by : National Research Council
Download or read book Urban Meteorology written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the United Nations, three out of five people will be living in cities worldwide by the year 2030. The United States continues to experience urbanization with its vast urban corridors on the east and west coasts. Although urban weather is driven by large synoptic and meso-scale features, weather events unique to the urban environment arise from the characteristics of the typical urban setting, such as large areas covered by buildings of a variety of heights; paved streets and parking areas; means to supply electricity, natural gas, water, and raw materials; and generation of waste heat and materials. Urban Meteorology: Forecasting, Monitoring, and Meeting Users' Needs is based largely on the information provided at a Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate community workshop. This book describes the needs for end user communities, focusing in particular on needs that are not being met by current urban-level forecasting and monitoring. Urban Meteorology also describes current and emerging meteorological forecasting and monitoring capabilities that have had and will likely have the most impact on urban areas, some of which are not being utilized by the relevant end user communities. Urban Meteorology explains that users of urban meteorological information need high-quality information available in a wide variety of formats that foster its use and within time constraints set by users' decision processes. By advancing the science and technology related to urban meteorology with input from key end user communities, urban meteorologists can better meet the needs of diverse end users. To continue the advancement within the field of urban meteorology, there are both short-term needs-which might be addressed with small investments but promise large, quick returns-as well as future challenges that could require significant efforts and investments.
Book Synopsis Climate Change and Cities by : Cynthia Rosenzweig
Download or read book Climate Change and Cities written by Cynthia Rosenzweig and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 855 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Urban Climate Change Research Network's Second Assessment Report on Climate Change in Cities (ARC3.2) is the second in a series of global, science-based reports to examine climate risk, adaptation, and mitigation efforts in cities. The book explicitly seeks to explore the implications of changing climatic conditions on critical urban physical and social infrastructure sectors and intersectoral concerns. The primary purpose of ARC3.2 is to inform the development and implementation of effective urban climate change policies, leveraging ongoing and planned investments for populations in cities of developing, emerging, and developed countries. This volume, like its predecessor, will be invaluable for a range of audiences involved with climate change and cities: mayors, city officials and policymakers; urban planners; policymakers charged with developing climate change mitigation and adaptation programs; and a broad spectrum of researchers and advanced students in the environmental sciences.
Book Synopsis How Cities Will Save the World by : Ray Brescia
Download or read book How Cities Will Save the World written by Ray Brescia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Cities are actively devising innovative policy solutions and they have the potential to do even more. In this volume, the authors examine current threats to communities across the U.S. and the globe. They draw on first-hand experience with, and accounts of, the crises already precipitated by climate change, population shifts, and economic inequality. This volume is distinguished, however, by its central objective of traveling beyond a description of problems and a discussion of their serious implications. Each of the thirteen chapters frame specific recommendations and guidance on the range of core capacities and interventions that 21st Century cities would be prudent to consider in mapping their immediate and future responses to these critical problems. How Cities Will Save the World brings together authors with frontline experience in the fields of city redevelopment, urban infrastructure, healthcare, planning, immigration, historic preservation, and local government administration. They not only offer their ground level view of threats caused by climate change, population shifts, and economic inequality, but they provide solution-driven narratives identifying promising innovations to help cities tackle this century’s greatest adversities.
Book Synopsis Urban Design and Planning in Adapting to Climate Change by : Tapan Kumar Dhar
Download or read book Urban Design and Planning in Adapting to Climate Change written by Tapan Kumar Dhar and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current sea-level rise predictions are expected to lead to a loss of anywhere between 6000 to 17000 km2 of land area around the globe during the 21st century -a loss that would force around 1.6 to 5.3 million people to migrate while simultaneously impacting another 300 to 650 million people. The rising sea-levels and the associated extreme weather events are expected to significantly impact humans in the 21st century ensuing in significant damage to property, higher demands on energy, disruption of settlements, and a significant loss of both life and natural resources. Small islands and coastal areas are particularly vulnerable to these impacts. Yet, while urban planning and design are often cited as key determinants to reduce climate change impacts, the longitudinal study of this research used 157 peer reviewed articles published in the leading urban planning and design journals revealed that there is nonetheless a dearth of urban planning and design literature that delves into climate change adaptation. Surely, while 2006-2007 represented a turning point after which climate change studies appear more prominently and consistently in urban planning and design literature, however, the majority of these studies address climate change mitigation rather than adaptation. Also, most of these adaptation studies underscore governance, social learning, and vulnerability assessments, while paying little attention to physical planning and urban design interventions. In particular, this body of literature suffers a lack of interdisciplinary linkages, an absence of knowledge transfer, a dearth of participatory research methods, and is straddled with the presence of scale conflict. In doing so, the theoretical framework of this research highlights conceptual similarities -hitherto fragmented- among three domains: urban planning, climate change adaptation, and resilience, such as the similarities between landscape ecological urbanism, the ecosystem-based climate change adaptations (or soft adaptations), and the bounce-forward model of resilience. Simultaneously, this research capitalizes on the expert and experiential knowledge in climate change adaptation whereby, methodologically, it underscores the transactive and the collaborative planning models -through public participation- in order to bridge the fragmented domains of the literature. This research focuses on Negril, a small resort city located on the north-west coast of Jamaica -a country that is considered a Caribbean Small Island Developing State (SIDS). Of particular interest is Long Bay, a seven-mile low-lying strip of beach in Negril where almost all of the area's tourism activities are concentrated. Similar to other SIDS, a substantial percentage of Jamaica's GDP is heavily related to beach-tourism and seaside activities, rendering such SIDS particularly vulnerable to climate change, hence, in need of special planning consideration. This research is guided by the following enquiries: What climatic risks are local people and assets exposed to? How can locals adapt to the risks? What measures can be used to assess the current resilience of Negril's built environment? And what alternatives (locally preferred or expert-driven) could they also consider for future adaptation? In order to address these inquiries, the research methods combined various tactics including a series of design charrettes with various sub-communities, which is a design-focused, hands-on, time-constrained workshop between researchers and local participants with the aim of developing a vision for a sustainable community. A total of 37 local participants partook in two day-long design charrettes. These were conducted simultaneously with a survey questionnaire with 151 respondents, which assessed the local adaptation preferences, as well as 19 in-depth interviews with planners and policy-makers involved in various aspects of urban planning and design in Jamaica. Additionally, a GPS survey documented 19 transverse sections (west to east) along Long Bay so as to model the local elevation profile and thus rank the vulnerable areas prone to sea-level rise. Moreover, the methods included personal observations and transect walks of the study area that yielded analyses of architectural and urban design typologies as well as information through casual interactions with local communities. Lastly, a combination of primary and secondary sources provided the necessary data for the study of Negril's urban morphology. The findings reveal that Negril's adaptation planning and policies seem to be goal-oriented and rely heavily on large scale engineering interventions (i.e. hard adaptations) while mostly excluding the local knowledge and the local ecosystems. Additionally, the failure to enforce planning regulations (e.g. controlling coastal set-backs) and the lack of a long-term vision that integrates adaptation and sustainable development have together accelerated Long Bay's vulnerability. Since the scope for managing retreat is limited in many coastal strips like Negril, whose Long Bay is further limited by the Great Morass that runs parallel to the coastline, the accommodative adaptations that are flexible and reversible and that help boost urban resilience offer a better option than protective ones. The findings reveal that coastal areas in SIDS must adopt an integrated planning approach that incorporates short- and long-term planning strategies. They also reveal that hard adaptation strategies should be adopted only when the soft ones that are based on local preferences, technologies, or knowledge are deemed ineffective or inappropriate. In addition, this dissertation's findings highlight the inherent potential of ecological design, green infrastructure, and morphological design as essential tools for guiding urban forms toward incremental change that parallels the pace of climate change. This dissertation therefore recommends a paradigm shift toward uncertainty-oriented urban planning and design where adaptations would be perceived as an inherent strategy that is informed by interdisciplinary knowledge and institutional collaboration in order to enhance resilience in a sustainable way. In other words, successful adaptation responses also succeed in achieving carbon neutral, environmentally sensitive, and low-impact development and so capitalize on other benefits along with the adaptation actions. Accordingly, adaptation becomes a process that integrates sustainable development and nature-human systems but one that fundamentally integrates interdisciplinary scholarship.
Book Synopsis Urbanization and Climate Co-Benefits by : Christopher N. H. Doll
Download or read book Urbanization and Climate Co-Benefits written by Christopher N. H. Doll and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban areas are increasingly contributing to climate change while also suffering many of its impacts. Moreover, many cities, particularly in developing countries, continue to struggle to provide services, infrastructure and socio-economic opportunities. How do we achieve the global goals on climate change and also make room for allowing global urban development? Increasing levels of awareness and engagement on climate change at the local level, coupled with recent global agreements on climate and development goals, as well as the New Urban Agenda emerging from Habitat III, present an unprecedented opportunity to radically rethink how we develop and manage our cities. Urbanization and Climate Co-Benefits examines the main opportunities and challenges to the implementation of a co-benefits approach in urban areas. Drawing on the results of empirical research carried out in Brazil, China, Indonesia, South Africa, India and Japan, the book is divided into two parts. The first part uses a common framework to analyse co-benefits across the urban sectors. The second part examines the tools and legal and governance perspectives at the local and international level that can help in planning for co-benefits. This book will be of great interest to students, practitioners and scholars of urban studies, climate/development policy and environmental studies.
Book Synopsis Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario by : Francesco Musco
Download or read book Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario written by Francesco Musco and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban heat islands are a new type of microclimatic phenomenon that causes a significant increase in the temperature of cities compared to surrounding areas. The phenomenon has been enforced by the current trend towards climate change. Although experts consider urban heat islands an urgent European Union public health concern, there are too few policies that address it. The EU carried out a project to learn more about this phenomenon through pilot initiatives. The pilots included feasibility studies and strategies for appropriately altering planning rules and governance to tackle the problem of urban heat islands. The pilots were carried out in eight metropolitan areas: Bologna/Modena, Budapest, Ljubljana, Lodz, Prague, Stuttgart, Venice/Padova, and Vienna. The feasibility studies carried out in these pilot areas focused on the specific morphology of EU urban areas, which are often characterised by the presence of historical old towns.
Download or read book The Climate Planner written by Jason King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Climate Planner is about overcoming the objections to climate change mitigation and adaption that urban planners face at a local level. It shows how to draft climate plans that encounter less resistance because they involve the public, stakeholders, and decisionmakers in a way that builds trust, creates consensus, and leads to implementation. Although focused on the local level, this book discusses climate basics such as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement of 2015, worldwide energy generation forecasts, and other items of global concern in order to familiarize urban planners and citizen planners with key concepts that they will need to know in order to be able to host climate conversations at the local level. The many case studies from around the United States of America show how communities have encountered pushback and bridged the implementation gap, the gap between plan and reality, thanks to a commitment to substantive public engagement. The book is written for urban planners, local activists, journalists, elected or appointed representatives, and the average citizen worried about climate breakdown and interested in working to reshape the built environment.
Book Synopsis Transformative Planning by : Christopher Silver
Download or read book Transformative Planning written by Christopher Silver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world with internationally recognized authors taking up urgent and salient issues from theory, to education for and practice of planning. This 7th volume features contributions on the theme of Transformative Planning: Smarter, Greener and More Inclusive Practices. It includes chapters from leading planning scholars and practitioners who critically examine how transformative planning practices seek to reduce inequalities, promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, achieve gender equality, improve human health and well-being, foster resilience of urban communities and protect the environment and thereby change urban planning paradigms. Several case studies of emerging transformative planning interventions illustrate practical ways forward. Transformative Planning offers provocative insights into the global planning community’s struggle and contribution to tackle the major challenges to society in the 21st century. It will be of use for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in the wide-ranging fields encompassed by urban studies, sustainability studies, and urban and regional planning. The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) series is published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and its member national and transnational planning schools associations.
Book Synopsis Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities by : Davide Geneletti
Download or read book Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities written by Davide Geneletti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics such as spatial distribution of urban ecosystems, population distribution, and physical infrastructure properties. The book addresses all these issues by: i) investigating to what extent ecosystem services are currently included in urban plans, and discussing what is still needed to improve planning practice; ii) illustrating how to develop ecosystem services indicators and information that can be used by urban planners to enhance plan design; iii) demonstrating the application of ES assessments to support urban planning processes through case studies; and iv) reflecting on criteria for addressing equity in urban planning through ecosystem service assessments, by exploring issues associated with the supply of, the access to and demand for ES by citizens. Through fully worked out case studies, from policy questions, to baseline analysis and indicators, and from option comparison to proposed solutions, the book offers readers detailed and accessible coverage of outstanding issues and proposed solutions to better integrate ES in city planning. The overall purpose of the book is to provide a compact reference that can be used by researchers as a key resource offering an updated perspective and overview on the field, as well as by practitioners and planners/decision makers as a source of inspiration for their activity. Additionally, the book will be a suitable resource for both undergraduate and post-graduate courses in planning and geography.
Book Synopsis Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Asia by : Belinda Yuen
Download or read book Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Asia written by Belinda Yuen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about African and Asian cities. Illustrated through selected case cities, the book brings together a rich collection of papers by leading scholars and practitioners in Africa and Asia to offer empirical analysis and up-to-date discussions and assessments of the urban challenges and solutions for their cities. A number of key topics concerning housing, sustainable urban development and climate change in Africa and Asia are explored along with how policy interventions and partnerships deliver specific forms of urban development. It is intended for all who are interested in the state of the cities and urban development in Africa and Asia. Africa and Asia present, in many ways, useful lessons in dealing with the burgeoning urban population, and the problems surrounding this influx of people and climate change in the developing word.
