Overview
- Includes original knowledge on autonomous adaptation and environmental management in Dar es Salaam
- Provides original integration of adaptation and urban planning concept in a post-colonial framework
- Presents a new perspective on coupled human-environment system and its relevance for adaptation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace (BRIEFSSECUR, volume 26)
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About the author
Liana Ricci is an Environmental Engineer and has a PhD in Urban Planning. She is currently post-doc fellow at Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, SAPIENZA University of Rome in Italy. Her major fields of specialization are urban and environmental planning in sub-Saharan cities, adaptive capacity assessment, climate change adaptation mainstreaming into urban policy and plans and urban policy mobility. Liana has conducted research in methodology development for data collection and analysis on spontaneous practices for climate change adaptation in urban areas of the Least Developed Countries, Local, and in Environmental Planning and Management in peri-urban areas. Her work has been presented at several national and international conferences and workshops (INURA; AESOP; ICSS 2010; European Ph.D. Network on International Climate Policy 2010; Ph.D. Workshop on Sustainable Development Columbia University 2011, UICCA conference, Turin 2011 and 2013, UGRG 2014). In 2013 she was blue book trainee at European Commission DG CLIMA working as Policy Assistant in the team for Mainstreaming of Climate Action into Cohesion Policy for the programming period 2014-2020 and in macroregions, and supported the development of Knowledge Gap Strategy for Climate Action (Horizon 2020). During the same year she was also at UN Habitat for the Internship programme on Urban Planning to stimulate and contribute to research related to Cities and Climate Chance Initiative (CCCI) and participate in CCCI Technical Support Team.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reinterpreting Sub-Saharan Cities through the Concept of Adaptive Capacity
Book Subtitle: An Analysis of Autonomous Adaptation in Response to Environmental Changes in Peri-Urban Areas
Authors: Liana Ricci
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27126-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27124-8Published: 12 January 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27126-2Published: 30 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2193-3162
Series E-ISSN: 2193-3170
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 211
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning