Title: Climate change and sustainable cities /
Authors: Priemus, Hugo, 1942-; Davoudi, Simin; Priemus, Hugo, 1942-; Davoudi, Simin,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Sustainable urban development.; City planning Environmental aspects; Climatic changes; Climatic changes.
Abstract: Climate change has demonstrated the complexities of the human-nature interrelationship and the need for embedding an environmental consciousness into our social values and norms. This book explores this interaction and urges planners to revisit some of their concepts, methods and ways of thinking.
Contents: 1. Introduction / Hugo Priemus & Simin Davoudi -- 2. Governing carbon and climate in the cities : an overview of policy and planning challenges and options / Patricia Romero-Lankao -- 3. National climate change adaptation strategies of European states from a spatial planning and development perspective / Stefan Greiving & Mark Fleischhauer -- 4. Climate risk and security : new meanings of "the environment" in the English planning system / Simin Davoudi -- 5. Rotterdam : a city and a mainport on the edge of a delta / Han Meyer, Anne Loes Nillesen & Wil Zonneveld -- 6. Improving sustainability in urban areas : discussing the potential for transforming conventional car-based travel into electric mobility / Bert van Wee, Kees Maat & Cees de Bont -- 7. Towards energy-neutral new housing developments. Municipal climate governance in The Netherlands / Milly Tambach & Henk Visscher -- 8. Improving energy efficiency of social housing areas : a case study of a retrofit achieving an "A" energy performance rating in the UK / Minna Sunikka-Blank [and 3 others] -- 9. Mediating low-carbon urban transitions? Forms of organization, knowledge and action / Mike Hodson & Simon Marvin -- 10. Local demonstrations for global transitions : dynamics across governance levels fostering socio-technical regime change towards sustainability / Philipp Späth & Harald Rohracher.