Climate resilient urban areas : governance, design and development in coastal delta cities

Climate resilient urban areas : governance, design and development in coastal delta cities / Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther, editor.

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,...

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Other Authors: Graaf-van Dinther, Rutger de (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Series:Palgrave studies in climate resilient societies.
Subjects:
City planning > Environmental aspects.
Sea level.
Climatic changes.
sea level.
climate change.
City planning > Environmental aspects
Climatic changes
Sea level
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: The five pillars of climate resilience in urban areas; Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther and Henk Ovink
  • Chapter 2: Integration of water management and urban design for climate resilient cities; Nanco Dolman
  • Chapter 3: Climate resilient urban retrofit at street level; Jeroen Kluck and Floris Boogaard
  • Chapter 4: Flood resilience of critical buildings: assessment methods and tools; Manuela Escarameia and Andrew Tagg
  • Chapter 5: Recovery Capacity: To Build Back Better.; Frans van de Ven, Fransje Hooimeijer and Piet Storm
  • Chapter 6: Removing challenges for resilience building with support of the circular economy; Jeroen Rijke, Liliane Geerling, Nguyen Hong Quan and Nguyen Hieu Trung
  • Chapter 7: Climate resilience in urban informal settlements: Towards a transformative upgrading agenda; Matthew French, Alexei Trundle, Inga Korte and Camari Koto
  • Chapter 8: A transformative process for urban climate resilience: The case of Water as Leverage Resilient Cities Asia in Semarang, Indonesia; Naim Laeni, Henk Ovink, Tim Busscher, Wiwandari Handayani, and Margo van den Brink
  • Chapter 9: Making the transition: transformative governance capacities for a resilient Rotterdam; Arnoud Molenaar, Katharina Holscher, Derk Loorbach and Johan Verlinde
  • Chapter 10: Future outlook: emerging trends and key ingredients for the transition to resilient delta cities; Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther.

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