Mitigating Climate Change
The Emerging Face of Modern Cities
Editors: Khare, Anshuman, Beckman, Terry (Eds.)
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- Addressing climate change in cities
- Emerging field of study as cities try to reduce their ecological footprint
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- About this book
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With ever increasing trends in urban consumption and production practices, a call for action to mitigate Climate Change is often seen as a way to foster sustainable development. Considerable attention is now being paid to determine what urban sustainability would include. Today there is a pressing need to broaden our knowledge and apply new concepts and frameworks to development of modern cities. Building on the foregoing, this book attempts to bring together and discuss concepts, tools, frameworks and best practices to cope with the emerging challenges faced by cities today. The book will be of use to policy makers, city planners, practitioners and academics who are starting to project what modern cities would need to do in terms of energy efficiency, mobility, planning and design of habitat and infrastructure and adapting to climate change.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Is Smart Growth Really So Smart?
Pages 3-23
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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a Tool in Reducing a Community’s Ecological Footprint
Pages 25-43
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Resource-Centered Cities and the Opportunity of Shrinkage
Pages 45-57
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Understanding Local Government Resilience: A Case Study on how the Local Government of Marikina City Reacted to the Flood in September 2009
Pages 59-71
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Urban Public Transportation System in the Context of Climate Change Mitigation: Emerging Issues and Research Needs in India
Pages 75-91
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Mitigating Climate Change
- Book Subtitle
- The Emerging Face of Modern Cities
- Editors
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- Anshuman Khare
- Terry Beckman
- Series Title
- Springer Environmental Science and Engineering
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-37030-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-37030-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-37029-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-42757-2
- Series ISSN
- 2194-3214
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXII, 281
- Topics
