Описание: Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world s energy consumption. If we are to reduce our demands on the planet s resources how can we make our urban areas more energy efficient? One way is to refit existing buildings with more thermally efficient building materials. But such retrofitting involves significant issues of social acceptance and public participation. Retrofitting the City provides an important corrective to the assumptions that have been made concerning the ability of people and places to cope with such residential transformation. Drawing upon case studies from a number of European cities that have undergone far-reaching change in their built environments, the author shows that supposedly inadaptable people and places show a strong, if often hidden, degree of flexibility in responding to economic change and building transformation."
Описание: Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities
Автор: DeVerteuil Geoffrey Название: Resilience in the Post-Welfare Inner City ISBN: 1447316649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447316640 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 5938.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Moving beyond theoretical notions of `resilience` this is the first book to offer a conceptual and empirical approach to exploring and comparing the process of resilience across service `hubs` in three complex but different global inner-city regions: London, Los Angeles and Sydney.
Описание: Moving beyond theoretical notions of `resilience` this is the first book to offer a conceptual and empirical approach to exploring and comparing the process of resilience across service `hubs` in three complex but different global inner-city regions: London, Los Angeles and Sydney.
Название: Spatial planning and resilience following disasters ISBN: 1447323599 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781447323594 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 5938.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: International contributors from academia, research, policy and practice use their experience and knowledge to explore on-going efforts to improve spatial resilience across the globe and predict future trends.
Автор: Yamagata Название: Urban Resilience ISBN: 3319398105 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319398105 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 22359.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is on urban resilience – how to design and operate cities that can withstand major threats such as natural disasters and economic downturns and how to recover from them. It is a collection of latest research results from two separate but collaborating research groups, namely, researchers in urban design and those on general resilience theory. The book systematically deals with the core aspects of urban resilience: systems, management issues and populations.The taxonomy can be broken down into threats, systems, resilience cycles and recovery types in the context of urban resilience. It starts with a discussion of systems resilience models, focusing on the central idea that resilience is a moving average of costs (a set of trajectories in a two-player game paradigm). The second section explores management issues, including planning, operating and emergency response in cities with specific examples such as land-use planning and carbon-neutral scenarios for urban planning. The next section focuses on urban dwellers and specific people-related issues in the context of resilience. Agent-based simulation of behaviour and perception-based resilience, as well as brand crisis management are representative examples of the topics discussed. A further section examines systems like public utilities – including managing power supplies, cyber-security issues and models for pandemics. It concludes with a discussion of the future challenges and risks facing complex systems, for example in resilient power grids, making it essential reading for a wide range of researchers and policymakers.
Автор: Rajib Shaw Название: Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia ISBN: 0128021691 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780128021699 Издательство: Elsevier Science Рейтинг: Цена: 9264.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia presents the latest information on the intensity and frequency of disasters. Specifically, the fact that, in urban areas, more than 50% of the world's population is living on just 2% of the land surface, with most of these cities located in Asia and developing countries that have high vulnerability and intensification.
The book offers an in-depth and multidisciplinary approach to reducing the impact of disasters by examining specific evidence from events in these areas that can be used to develop best practices and increase urban resilience worldwide.
As urban resilience is largely a function of resilient and resourceful citizens, building cities which are more resilient internally and externally can lead to more productive economic returns. In an era of rapid urbanization and increasing disaster risks and vulnerabilities in Asian cities, Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia is an invaluable tool for policy makers, researchers, and practitioners working in both public and private sectors.
Описание: Design for Urban Disaster brings together writings from humanitarian aid workers and built environmental practitioners to address the crucial questions around improving disaster response, building long term resilience and transformation, which explores the fundamental changes that reduce or even prevent future disaster.
Автор: Amrita G. Daniere; Matthias Garschagen Название: Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia ISBN: 3319989677 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319989679 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume explores how climate change impacts interact with poverty and vulnerability to increase the risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia. It combines knowledge from both academic literature and action research to explore the creation of climate resilient urban governance that is both inclusive and equitable.The book contains contributions from researchers in different cities in Southeast Asia involved with the major research project Building Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asian Cities (UCRSEA). The authors respond to three urgent questions:How does climate change interact with poverty and vulnerability to create risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia?What does knowledge, from both academic literature and action research, tell us about creating climate resilient urban governance that is both inclusive and equitable?How can we strengthen the agency of individuals, groups and institutions to improve economic, physical and social well-being in urban areas, particularly in response to climate change?The book hopes to answer to current challenges posed by climate change. In the volume, the authors discuss how the agency of individuals, groups and institutions can be strengthened to improve economic, physical and social well-being in urban areas, particularly in response to climate change.
Название: The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience ISBN: 1138583596 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138583597 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 33686.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume provides a summary of state of the art thinking on resilience, the different approaches, tools and methodologies for understanding the subject in urban contexts, and brings together related reflections and initiatives.
Название: Resilience machine ISBN: 0815381131 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815381136 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: By exploring the ways in which the concept of resilience is institutionalized within policies and practices that impact the lived experience of individuals, the book addresses how the regressive potentials of resilience might be resisted and reshaped and how its progressive potentials might be drawn upon in pursuit of justice and democracy.
Автор: Alexander Fekete; Frank Fiedrich Название: Urban Disaster Resilience and Security ISBN: 3319886304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319886305 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 21661.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This edited book investigates the interrelations of disaster impacts, resilience and security in an urban context. Urban as a term captures megacities, cities, and generally, human settlements, that are characterised by concentration of quantifiable and non-quantifiable subjects, objects and value attributions to them. The scope is to narrow down resilience from an all-encompassing concept to applied ways of scientifically attempting to ‚measure’ this type of disaster related resilience. 28 chapters in this book reflect opportunities and doubts of the disaster risk science community regarding this ‚measurability’. Therefore, examples utilising both quantitative and qualitative approaches are juxtaposed. This book concentrates on features that are distinct characteristics of resilience, how they can be measured and in what sense they are different to vulnerability and risk parameters. Case studies in 11 countries either use a hypothetical pre-event estimation of resilience or are addressing a ‘revealed resilience’ evident and documented after an event. Such information can be helpful to identify benchmarks or margins of impact magnitudes and related recovery times, volumes and qualities of affected populations and infrastructure.
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