Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation offers evidence-based, scientific solutions for improving a city's ability to prepare, recover and adapt to global climate-related events. Bringing together a wide variety of research disciplines to addresses the linkages to climate change adaptation and mitigation topics with planning, transportation and waste management, the book informs different types of stakeholders on how they can enhance their preparation abilities to enable real-time response methods. 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. Presents a structured, in-depth analysis of smart city cases from around the world Includes evidence-based toolkits and frameworks for assessing contribution of smart city solutions to climate resilience Provides a state-of-the-art literature review and glossary INDICE: Part I. Introduction1. Urbanization in the context of global environmental change2. Urban Climate change adaptation and mitigationPart II. The state-of-the-art of Smart sustainable cities city solutions3. definitions and Directions4. climate change adaptation5. Climate change mitigationPart III. Smart City Assessment Framework6. Fundamentals7. Tools and Indicators8. Inclusion into existing urban sustainability assessment tools9. Assessment FrameworkPart IV. Case studies: analysis using the assessment framework10. Smart city projects around the world11. Case study 112. Case study 213. Case study 314. Conclusions and way forward
- ISBN: 978-0-323-85552-5
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2022
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés