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Mitigating Climate Change: The Emerging Face of Modern Cities

By Dana Coble (auth.) , Anshuman Khare , Terry Beckman (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2013
ISBN
978-3-642-37029-8, 978-3-642-37030-4
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-37030-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6534967 bytes)
Series
Springer Environmental Science and Engineering
Edition
1
Pages
281\285
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Climate Cha

Description

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.

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