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Sustainable Ho Chi Minh City: Climate Policies for Emerging Mega Cities

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  • Holistic approach of environmental and urban planning
  • Overview on methods of vulnerability assessment and related recommendations for urban planning
  • Recommendations for climate change adaption and mitigation on urban, district and building scale
  • Socio economic dimension of urban development
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Urban Environment

  3. Urban Development

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As climate change and urban development are closely interlinked and often interact negatively, this edited volume takes Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam’s first mega-urban region as a case study to analyse its vulnerability to climate change and to suggest measures towards a more sustainable urban development. The book offers an overview on land use planning regarding the aspects of urban flooding, urban climate, urban energy and urban mobility as well as spatial views from the angle of urban planning such as the metropolitan level, the city, the neighbourhood and building level. It shows that to a significant degree, measures dealing with climate change can be taken from the toolbox of sustainable urban development and reflects how institutional structures need to change to enhance chances for implementation given socio-cultural and economic constraints. This is merged and integrated into a holistic perspective of planning recommendations, supporting the municipal government to increase its adaptive capacity.

The authors are members of a German government funded research project on how to support HCMC’s municipal government to adapt to risks related to climate change.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universität Hamburg, Department of International Affairs, Hamburg, Germany

    Antje Katzschner

  • Universität Hamburg, Department of Geography, Hamburg, Germany

    Michael Waibel

  • University of Stuttgart, Institute for Leightweight Structures and Conceptual Design, Stuttgart, Germany

    Dirk Schwede

  • University of Kassel, Environmental Meteorology, Kassel, Germany

    Lutz Katzschner

  • Environmental Planning, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany

    Michael Schmidt, Harry Storch

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sustainable Ho Chi Minh City: Climate Policies for Emerging Mega Cities

  • Editors: Antje Katzschner, Michael Waibel, Dirk Schwede, Lutz Katzschner, Michael Schmidt, Harry Storch

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04615-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04614-3Published: 08 December 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79145-6Published: 27 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04615-0Published: 01 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 269

  • Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 88 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: International Environmental Law, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Urbanism, Climate Change

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