Resilient cities
Subtitle: cities and adaptation to climate change - proceedings of the Global Forum 2010
By: Konrad Otto-Zimmermann (ed.).
Series: Local sustainability -- v. 1; Local sustainability -- v. 1.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Number of pages: 573
ISBN-13: 9789400707849; 9789400707856
Subjects: Climate and civilization; Climatic changes; Congresses; Urban ecology (Sociology); City planning; Urban ecology (Biology); Global warming
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: Introduction.; title: Building the global adaptation community  -- Konrad Otto-Zimmerman -- Part II.; title: Describing impacts at the local level.; title: Introduction: describing impacts at the local level  -- Lucinda Fairhurst; title: Understanding potential climate change impacts and adaptation options in India megacities  -- Diana Reckien, -- Martin Wildenberg, and -- Kaushik Deb; title: Assessment of climate change-induced vulnerability to floods in Hyderabad, India, using remote sensing data  -- Oleksandr Kit, -- Matthias Lüdeke, and -- Diana Reckien; title: The role of community resilience in adaptation to climate change: the urban poor in Jakarta, Indonesia  -- Mario Wilhelm; title: Ecohealth and climate change: adaptation to flooding events in riverside secondary cities, West Africa  -- Guéladio Cissé, -- Brama Koné, Hampaté Bâ, -- Ibrahima Mbaye, -- Koffi Koba, -- Jürg Utzinger, and -- Marcel Tanner; title: Climate change and adaptive capacity of women to water stress in urban centers of Nigeria: emerging concerns and reactions  -- Isaac B. Oluwatayo; title: Urban climate strategies against future heat stress conditions  -- Lutz Katzschner; title: Climate-proof urban transport planning: opportunities and challenges in developing cities  -- Urda Eichhorst, -- Daniel Bongardt, and -- Montserrat Miramontes -- Part III.; title: Frameworks for local action, challenges and proactive recommendations.; title: Introduction: frameworks for local action, challenges and proactive recommendations  -- Olivia Tusinski and -- Alice Balbo; title: Inclusive adaptation: linking participatory learning and knowledge management to urban resilience  -- Michaela Hordijk and -- Isa Baud; title: Urban adaptation planning and governance: challenges to emerging wisdom  -- JoAnn Carmin, -- David Dodman, -- Linda Harvey, -- Shaib Lwasa, and -- Patricia Romero-Lankao; title: Urban climate change adaptation in the context of transformation: lessons from Vietnam  -- Matthias Garschagen and -- Frauke Krass; title: Getting ready for a changing climate: supporting councillor's leadership role in adaptation  -- Joyce Wei Ka Lee; title: Environmental learning from the ivory tower to the town square: the case of Trondheim, Norway  -- Annemie Wyckmans; title: Plan B:altic: a social-ecological approach to climate change adaptation  -- Sonja Deppisch, -- Sanin Hasibović, and -- Meike Albers; title: Governance recommendations for adaptation in European urban regions: results from five case studies and a European expert survey  -- Torsten Grothmann; title: Creating resilient cities through empowered, deliberative participation  -- Janette Hartz-Karp and -- Hans-Peter Meister -- Part IV.; title: Local strategies and actions in response to climate change.; title: Introduction: Local strategies and actions in response to climate change  -- Monika Zimmermann and -- nathan Brettschneider; title: Comparative research on the adaptation strategies of ten urban climate plans  -- Luc Vrolijks, -- Ashley Spatafore, and -- Anisha S. Mittal; title: Managing regional climate mitigation and adaptation co-benefits and co-costs  -- Matthias Ruth; title: Interdisciplinary and multi-institutional approaches to climate change adaptation  -- Virginie Moffet, -- Matthieu Alibert, and -- Caroline Larrivée; title: Climate adaptation strategies: evidence from Latin American city-regions  -- Dirk Heinrichs and -- Kerstin Krellenberg; title: Adaptation in UK cities: heading in the right direction?  -- Magnus Benzie, -- Alex Harvey, and -- Karen Miller; title: Finding the balance: challenges and opportunities for climate change adaptation at different levels of English local government  -- Nadia Manasfi and -- Elizabeth Greenhalgh; title: Local strategies for climate change adaptation: urban planning criteria for municipalities of the Basque country, Spain  -- Marta Olazabal, -- Efren Feliú, -- Borja Izaola, -- David Pon, -- Maria Pooley, -- Marimar Alonso-Martin, and -- Carlos Castillo; title: Climate change adaptation in Dutch municipalities: risk perception and institutional capacity  -- Maya M. van den Berg; title: Toward a more flood resilient urban environment: the Dutch multi-level safety approach to flood risk management  -- Berry Gersonius, -- William Veerbeek, -- Abdus Subhan, -- Karin Stone, and -- Chris Zevenbergen; title: Climate change and city development: resilience strategies in Bonn  -- Rüdiger Wagner; title: Integrated climate adaptation in Dresden: insights from flood prevention  -- Christian Korndörfer, -- Peter Teichmann, and -- Frank Frenzel; title: Integrated climate protection program for the city of Chemnitz: climate diagnosis, climate change prognosis, and adaptation measures in the urban area -- Petra Schneider, -- Nicole Gottschalk, -- Ralf Löser, and -- Thomas Scharbrodt; title: Adaptation strategies for the city of Cape Town: finding the balance within social-ecological complexity  -- Darryl Colenbrander, -- Gregg oelofse, -- Anton Cartwright, -- Howard Gold, and -- Sakhile Tsotsobe; title: Sharing the Lagos megacity experience in the integrated management of sea level rise and flooding  -- Nicholas Ozor, -- Oguguah M. Ngozi, and -- Maximus Ugwuoke; title: Community-based vulnerability assessment: Semarang, Indonesia  -- John Taylor; title: Research news for climate compliant cities: the case of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam  -- Frank Schwarze, -- Andreas Gravert, -- Ronald Eckert, -- Ulrike Schinkel, and -- Ralf Kersten; title: Building resilience to climate change through adaptive land use planning in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam  -- Harry Storch, -- Nigel Downes, -- Lutz Katzschner, and -- Nguyen Xuan Thinh; title: Climate change risk management for a suburban local government: the case of Kogarah, Australia  -- Elisa Idris and -- Hartmut Fünfgeld; title: Climate change as a survival strategy: soft infrastructure for urban resilience and adaptive capacity in Australia's coastal zones  -- Nan Chen and -- Peter Graham; title: Curitiba, Brazil: a model for resilience in Latin America?  -- Peter Spathelf -- Part V.; title: Approaches to climate change adaptation in cities.; title: Introduction: Approaches to climate change adaptation in cities  -- Hartmut Fünfgeld; title: Building resilience to climate change in Asian cities  -- Sarah Opitz-Stapleton, -- Laura Seraydarian, -- Karen MacClune, -- Greg Guibert, -- Sarah Reed, -- Fern Uennatornwaranggoon and -- Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio; title: Local vulnerability assessment of climate change and its implications: the case of Gyeonggi-Do, Korea  -- Jaekyung Koh; title: Ecosystem-based adaptation in the urban environment  -- Gabriel Grimsditch; title: Urban agriculture and climate change adaptation: ensuring food security through adaptation  -- Marielle Dubbeling and -- Henk de Zeeuw; title: Cooling the public realm: climate-resilient urban design  -- jeffrey Raven -- The role of transport in mitigation and adaptation to climate change impacts in urban areas / -- Giuseppe Inturri and Matteo Ignaccolo; title: Urban green spaces: potentials and constraints for urban adaptation to climate change  -- Juliane Mathey, -- Stefanie Rössler, -- Iris Lehmann, and -- Anne Bräuer; title: Urban climate framework: a system approach towards climate proof cities  -- Sonja Döpp, -- Fransje Hooimeijer, and -- Nienke Maas -- Part VI.; title: Reality check: adaptation on the ground.; title: Introduction: Reality check: adaptation on the ground  -- Olivia Tusinski; title: Preparing for climate change while advancing local sustainability: a closer look at Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA  -- Natacha Seijas, -- Susanne M. Torriente, -- Nichole L. Hefty, and -- Melissa Stults; title: Quito's climate change strategy: a response to climate change in the metropolitan district of Quito, Ecuador  -- Carolina Zambrano-Barragán, -- Othon Zevallos, -- Marcos Villacís, and -- Diego Enríquez; title: Climate change implications for Dhaka City: a need for immediate measures to reduce vulnerability  -- Golam Rabbani, -- A. Atiq Rahman, and -- Nazria Islam; title: Adaptation in practise: Durban, South Africa -- Andrew Mather,-- Debra Roberts, and-- Geoffrey Tooley.