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Resilient Cities
Even with significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, a certain degree of climate change will inevitably occur. Adapting to climate change, then, will become a necessary step in reducing the vulnerability of many regions across the globe. This is especially true for urban areas where climate change has been shown to have particularly destabilizing effects. Through the identification and analysis of the most relevant impacts facing urban areas, this book makes clear the need to incorporate climate change concerns into the mainstream of local planning, governance and policy making practices. Adaptation as a workable concept within urban areas cannot be treated in isolation from the man...
Resilient Cities 2
Assembling papers originally presented at the Resilient Cities 2011 Congress in Bonn, Germany (June 2011), the second global forum on cities and adaptation to climate change, this volume is the second in a series resulting from this annual event. These cutting-edge papers represent the latest research on the topic and reflect the intensification of the debate on the meaning of and interaction between climate adaptation, risk reduction and broader resilience. Thus, contributors offer more material related to resilience, such as water, energy and food security; green infrastructure; the role of renewables and ecosystem services; vulnerable communities and urban poor; and responsive financing for adaptation and multi-level governance. Overall, the book brings a number of different perspectives to bear on the most pressing issues and controversies surrounding climate change adaptation in cities. These papers will prove invaluable to anyone interested in deepening their understanding of urban resilience and contributing to tackling climate change at the local level.
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Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
The International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management is sponsored by the Chinese Industrial Engineering Institution, CMES, which is the only national-level academic society for Industrial Engineering. The conference is held annually as the major event in this arena. Being the largest and the most authoritative international academic conference held in China, it provides an academic platform for experts and entrepreneurs in the areas of international industrial engineering and management to exchange their research findings. Many experts in various fields from China and around the world gather together at the conference to review, exchange, summarize and promote th...
Change the Way You Move!
"The centers of many metropolises worldwide offer an image that is less than inviting, with forbidding office building facades, permanently congested main traffic arteries and a high level of pollution. The city of Johannesburg, the economic hub of South Africa, ran a daring experiment which showed alternative possibilities: as part of the EcoMobility World Festival, a hundred thousand commuters converted to ecomobility--for four weeks, private cars were replaced by public transport, bicycles and pedestrian traffic in the Sandton business district. 'Change the way you move!' documents the EcoMobility World Festival 2015 and shares fascinating solutions to this challenge, as well as experiences and lessons learnt. What is especially inspiring is not just the dedicated cooperation between citizens and various stakeholders, but also the contribution of the festival to social integration and to the overcoming of spatial apartheid."--
The Economy of Green Cities
This volume bridges the gap between the global promotion of the Green Economy and the manifestation of this new development strategy at the urban level. Green cities are an imperative solution, not only in meeting global environmental challenges but also in helping to ensure socio-economic prosperity at the local level.
Neighborhood in motion
Unvorstellbares geschah in der südkoreanischen Stadt Suwon: Ein Stadtquartier spielte Zukunft. Denn für das „EcoMobility World Festival 2013“ entfernten 4300 Bewohner eines Quartiers ihre 1500 Autos aus dem Gebiet und lebten für einen ganzen Monat einen ökomobilen Lebensstil. Stadtquartier in Bewegung porträtiert den Prozess dieser ungewöhnlichen Inszenierung von der Idee bis zur Ausführung: die nie dagewesene Zusammenarbeit der Kommune mit Vereinen, örtlichen Gewerbetreibenden, internationalen Organisationen und Städten aus aller Welt; den hingebungsvollen Einsatz von Freiwilligen, um ihr autofreies Quartier zu schützen und zu verteidigen; und das Glücksgefühl, das die Bewohner erlebten, als sie die autofreien Straßen und Plätze, die nun allein den Menschen gehörten, genießen konnten. Beeindruckende Fotografien zeigen, wie hässliche, staubige und lärmende Straßen in lebendige Räume verwandelt wurden und die Abwesenheit von Autos neue Möglichkeiten der Gemeinschaftsbildung und des nachbarschaftlichen Dialogs ermöglichte.
Climate Change and Cities
Urban areas are home to over half the world's people and are at the forefront of the climate change issue. The need for a global research effort to establish the current understanding of climate change adaptation and mitigation at the city level is urgent. To meet this goal a coalition of international researchers - the Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) - was formed at the time of the C40 Large Cities Climate Summit in New York in 2007. This book is the First UCCRN Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities. The authors are all international experts from a diverse range of cities with varying socio-economic conditions, from both the developing and developed world. It is invaluable for mayors, city officials and policymakers; urban sustainability officers and urban planners; and researchers, professors and advanced students.
Going Green
Describes a trial by residents of the neighbourhood of Hamasen in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, of an environmentally friendly, ecomobile lifestyle without dependency on the private car and motorcycle. The EcoMobility World Festival held in Kaohsiung in 2017 was the impetus for the emergence of new mobility habits in a busy port city - residents walk, cycle, use small electric vehicles, try an autonomous minibus and the new tramway, accompanied by the authors of this book and a photographer.
Transforming Distressed Global Communities
Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration and civil unrest, and ecological degradation and the threats associated with climate change, including more frequent and more severe natural disasters. Our long-held assumptions about man and nature and how they interact are defunct. We realize now that we can no longer continue to build without addressing the long-term impacts of our actions and their spillovers. Energy and natural resources are finite. The way we configure economies has come into question. In the developed world, especially in the United States, infrastructure and the notions tha...
