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Urban Resilience for Risk and Adaptation Governance
This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal approach with regard to the role of spatial planning in promoting and fostering risk management as well as institutions’ challenges for governing risk, particularly in relation to new forms of multi-level governance that may include stakeholders and citizen engagement. The different contributions focus on approaches, policies, and practices able to contrast risks in urban systems generating social inclusion, equity and participation through bottom-up governance forms and co-evolution principles. Case studies focus on lessons learned, as well as the potential and means for their replication and upscaling, also through capacity building and knowledge transfer. Among many other topics, the book explores difficulties encountered in, and creative solutions found, community and local experiences and capacities, organizational processes and integrative institutional, technical approaches to risk issue in cities.
System City
A radical shift is taking place in the way that society is thinkingabout cities, a change from the machine metaphors of the 20thcentury to mathematical models of the processes of biological andnatural systems. From this new perspective, cities are regarded notsimply as spatially extended material artefacts, but as complexsystems that are analogous to living organisms, exhibiting many ofthe same characteristics. There is an emerging view that the designof the thousands of new cities needed for an expanding worldpopulation are to be founded on intelligent and inhabitedinfrastructural systems or ‘flow architectures’ ofurban metabolisms. The physical arrays of the flow architecture ofthe cit...
Advances in Robotics and Automatic Control: Reviews, Vol. 1
The first volume of the Advances in Robotics and Automatic Control: Reviews, Book Series started by IFSA Publishing in 2018 contains ten chapters written by 32 contributors from 9 countries: Belgium, China, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Serbia, Tunisia and USA. We hope that readers will enjoy this book and it can be a valuable tool for those who involved in research and development of various robots and automatic control systems.
Sustainable Energy Democracy and the Law
Sustainable Energy Democracy and the Law offers a legal account of the concept of sustainable energy democracy. The book explains what the concept means in a legal context and how it can be translated into concrete legal instruments.
Net Zero and Natural Resources Law
States, corporations, and other actors worldwide have committed to measures aimed at bringing down global emissions to net zero by the year 2060 or earlier. While the need for a clean energy transition is clear, incoherently designed transition programs can pose complex environmental, social, and governance risks, including legal liability and protracted disputes. At the same time, the rush for minerals needed to manufacture clean energy technologies raises fundamental questions–most crucially, how to ensure the exploration and development of energy transition minerals in a manner that does not exacerbate resource conflicts, resource nationalism, human rights violations, protectionism, ene...
风险灾害危机研究（第十辑）
在今天的全球風險社會和中國高風險社會中，風險、災害、危機管理的重要性已無須多言。如果說風險社會意味著一個時代性的轉變，那麼人類如何與風險、災害、危機共生，就是這個我們時代最為重要、緊迫的研究主題。本書由南京大學社會風險與公共危機管理研究中心主辦，致力於風險、災害、危機的跨學科研究。
Cambio climático, ciudad y gestión ambiental.
Este libro aspira a ser un ejercicio de pluralidad, en especial en lo que corresponde a la cuestión ambiental, expresada no sólo en los diversos objetos teóricos y empíricos sobre los cuales se reflexiona, sino también en los enfoques, supuestos y teorías con los que se intenta pensar una problemática ambiental que no sólo es diversa y amplia sino, sobre todo, compleja. El ejercicio analítico de esta obra consiste en pensar los problemas ambientales tanto en sus dimensiones nacionales e internacionales como en lo que tiene que ver con los factores de fondo que provocan su despliegue en los ámbitos territorial, económico, social, político y de la gestión, tratando de destacar las diversas interconexiones implícitas en su complejidad.
