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.
1. Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation - p. iii 2. Cover - p. iii 3. Title Page - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. Contributors - p. ix 7. Preface - p. xi 8. Chapter 1 Urbanization in the context of global environmental change - p. 1 9. Chapter 2 Climate change adaptation and mitigation in cities - p. 23 10. Chapter 3 Smart cities: Key definitions and new directions - p. 49 11. Chapter 4 Smart city solutions and climate change adaptation: An overview - p. 69 12. Chapter 5 Smart city solutions and climate change mitigation: An overview - p. 93 13. Chapter 6 The fundamentals of smart city assessment - p. 117 14. Chapter 7 Assessment tools and indicators for smart city assessment - p. 147 15. Chapter 8 The extent of inclusion of smart city indicators in existing urban sustainability assessment tools - p. 175 16. Chapter 9 Indicators to assess contributions of smart city solutions and technologies to urban resilience - p. 199 17. Chapter 10 Contributions of smart technologies to disaster resilience - p. 219 18. Chapter 11 A typology analysis of smart city projects around the world - p. 241 19. Chapter 12 Urban scale climate change adaptation through smart technologies - p. 253 20. Chapter 13 Automated object extraction of satellite imagery to estimate the loss of vegetative land cover and inform climate adaptation actions in San Antonio, Texas - p. 285 21. Chapter 14 Smart transformation in Iran, a step toward adaptation and reduction of climate change - p. 305 22. Chapter 15 Technological solutions for adaptation with Iran's water resources crisis - p. 327 23. Chapter 16 The way forward for data-driven and climate-resilient cities - p. 345 24. Index - p. 353
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.
1. Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation - p. iii 2. Cover - p. iii 3. Title Page - p. iii 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. Contributors - p. ix 7. Preface - p. xi 8. Chapter 1 Urbanization in the context of global environmental change - p. 1 9. Chapter 2 Climate change adaptation and mitigation in cities - p. 23 10. Chapter 3 Smart cities: Key definitions and new directions - p. 49 11. Chapter 4 Smart city solutions and climate change adaptation: An overview - p. 69 12. Chapter 5 Smart city solutions and climate change mitigation: An overview - p. 93 13. Chapter 6 The fundamentals of smart city assessment - p. 117 14. Chapter 7 Assessment tools and indicators for smart city assessment - p. 147 15. Chapter 8 The extent of inclusion of smart city indicators in existing urban sustainability assessment tools - p. 175 16. Chapter 9 Indicators to assess contributions of smart city solutions and technologies to urban resilience - p. 199 17. Chapter 10 Contributions of smart technologies to disaster resilience - p. 219 18. Chapter 11 A typology analysis of smart city projects around the world - p. 241 19. Chapter 12 Urban scale climate change adaptation through smart technologies - p. 253 20. Chapter 13 Automated object extraction of satellite imagery to estimate the loss of vegetative land cover and inform climate adaptation actions in San Antonio, Texas - p. 285 21. Chapter 14 Smart transformation in Iran, a step toward adaptation and reduction of climate change - p. 305 22. Chapter 15 Technological solutions for adaptation with Iran's water resources crisis - p. 327 23. Chapter 16 The way forward for data-driven and climate-resilient cities - p. 345 24. Index - p. 353
