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Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Summary

Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation by Ayyoob Sharifi (Assistant Professor, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan)

Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation offers evidence-based, scientific solutions for improving a city's ability to prepare, recover and adapt to global climate-related events. Bringing together a wide variety of research disciplines to addresses the linkages to climate change adaptation and mitigation topics with planning, transportation and waste management, the book informs different types of stakeholders on how they can enhance their preparation abilities to enable real-time response methods. Application-focused throughout, this book explores the complexities of urban systems and subsystems to support researchers, planners and decision-makers in their efforts toward developing more climate-resilient smart cities.

About Ayyoob Sharifi (Assistant Professor, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan)

Ayyoob Sharifi is Assistant Professor at the Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation at Hiroshima University. He is lead author of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Advisory Board Member of the Future Earth Urban Knowledge Action Network, and former Executive Director of the Global Carbon Project. He is author of Resilience-Oriented Urban Planning: Theoretical and Empirical Insights (2018) and has written extensively for high-profile peer-reviewed journals. Amir Khavarian is a researcher with expertise in geography and urban planning. He focuses on disruptive solutions for urban climate change mitigation and adaptation, smart city, sustainable development, and mobility. He and serves as an reviewer for top journals.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction 1. Urbanization in the context of global environmental change 2. Urban Climate change adaptation and mitigation Part II. The state-of-the-art of Smart sustainable cities city solutions 3. definitions and Directions 4. climate change adaptation 5. Climate change mitigation Part III. Smart City Assessment Framework 6. Fundamentals 7. Tools and Indicators 8. Inclusion into existing urban sustainability assessment tools 9. Assessment Framework Part IV. Case studies: analysis using the assessment framework 10. Smart city projects around the world 11. Case study 1 12. Case study 2 13. Case study 3 14. Conclusions and way forward

Additional information

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Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation by Ayyoob Sharifi (Assistant Professor, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan)
New
Paperback
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
2022-09-20
376
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