Editors:
- Provides worldwide case-based urban climatic planning applications
- Shares relevant climatic-spatial planning experiences and local environmental health issues
- Bridges the fields of urban climatology/meteorology, urban planning and design, and public health
Part of the book series: Biometeorology (BIOMET, volume 5)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Rise of Mega-cities and the Concept of Climate Resilience and Healthy Living
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Front Matter
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Urban Climate Science in Action
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Front Matter
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Future Challenges and the Way Forward
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Front Matter
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About this book
This volume demonstrates how urban climate science can provide valuable information for planning healthy cities. The book illustrates the idea of "Science in Time, Science in Place" by providing worldwide case-based urban climatic planning applications for a variety of regions and countries, utilizing relevant climatic-spatial planning experiences to address local climatic and environmental health issues. Comprised of three major sections entitled "The Rise of Mega-cities and the Concept of Climate Resilience and Healthy Living," "Urban Climate Science in Action," and "Future Challenges and the Way Forward," the book argues for the recognition of climate as a key element of healthy cities. Topics covered include: urban resilience in a climate context, climate responsive planning and urban climate interventions to achieve healthy cities, climate extremes, public health impact, urban climate-related health risk information, urban design and planning, and governanceand management of sustainable urban development. The book will appeal to an international audience of practicing planners and designers, public health and built environment professionals, social scientists, researchers in epidemiology, climatology and biometeorology, and international to city scale policy makers.
Chapter “Manchester: The Role of Urban Domestic Gardens in Climate Adaptation and Resilience” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Chao Ren
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Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK
Glenn McGregor
About the editors
Dr. Chao Ren is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include sustainable environmental design, climate sensitive design, and planning.
Dr. Glenn McGregor is a Professor of Climatology in the Department of Geography at Durham University. His research interests include climate and health, synoptic climatology, climate and society, and hydroclimatology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities
Editors: Chao Ren, Glenn McGregor
Series Title: Biometeorology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87598-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87597-8Published: 21 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87600-5Published: 22 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87598-5Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 1877-5284
Series E-ISSN: 2452-1558
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LIV, 406
Number of Illustrations: 130 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Climate Change Management and Policy, Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings, Climate Change, Environmental Management