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3 produkter
3 produkter
Livable Cities
Urban Heat Islands Mitigation for Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Greening
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
1 216 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Livable Cities: Urban Heat Islands Mitigation for Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Greening elucidates on livability in urban areas, providing readers with definitions and indicators of what makes a city livable.
Livable Cities
Urban Heat Islands Mitigation for Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Greening
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
1 216 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
Livable Cities: Urban Heat Islands Mitigation for Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Greening elucidates on livability in urban areas, providing readers with definitions and indicators of what makes a city livable. It comprehensively introduces the urban heat island effect (UHIE) and offers strategies for mitigating high surface temperatures in metropolitan areas and adapting to climate change (CC). The coverage highlights the linkage between UHIE and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the socio-economic impacts of urban heat islands (UHIs), their effect on livability for citizens, and the costs and benefits of mitigating UHI. In addition, it encompasses background information about the problems and challenges that megacities face in the 21st century, followed by the cooling benefits that can be achieved from the different types of urban green coverage (UGC), whether conventional or innovative. The book presents case studies on six cities that have successfully applied UGC: Chicago (United States), Curitiba (Brazil), Stuttgart (Germany), Tokyo (Asia), Melbourne (Australia), and Johannesburg (South Africa). Additional case studies illustrate UHIE mapping in greater Cairo, Egypt, and Rome, Italy, to determine hot spot areas that need interventions and prioritization of UGC. Highlights also include the role of blue and green infrastructures in creating livable cities in the post-COVID-19 world, trends of bi-correlation between urban green spaces (UGSs), UGC, and COVID-19, and global patterns of UGSs to shape better healthy, sustainable, and resilient cities. Explains urban heat islands, their causes, and strategies for climate change adaptation to create livable cities; Highlights the role of urban green coverage in post-COVID-19 regulations in shaping more livable, sustainable, and resilient cities.Explores ways to reduce the urban heat island effect by exploiting urban greening to mitigate high temperatures in large cities like Cairo and Rome.
Co-Creating Energy Retrofitting
Traditional Mediterranean Settlements Decarbonization and Valorization
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
3 385 kr
Kommande
Co-Creating Energy Retrofitting presents a human-centered approach to tackle the climate crisis in one of the world's most vulnerable regions: the Mediterranean, where rural commons face a critical shift from productivity to consumerism. Fortunately, energy retrofitting is a vital stabilizing force that can accelerate decarbonization in rural settlements and preserve their local identities. Why does understanding the rurality and traditional dynamics matter? What role do key-enabling technologies, Nature-based Solutions, and citizen-led retrofitting play in framing self-sufficiency dogma towards a climate-neutral future? What is the effective way to retrofit these distinguished contexts with the embedded socio-cultural significance? How can stakeholders bridge the implementation gaps during times of uncertainty? This monograph answers these key questions and others by providing technical solutions and, beyond that, by introducing an innovative Agile-Transdisciplinary Framework that adapts the mechanics of the Scrum project management model to manage stakeholder conflicts and foster community co-creation. Readers will discover a practical framework for driving climate neutrality and the clean energy transition. Thus, this book is an indispensable resource for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers dedicated to the decarbonization and valorization of the rural Mediterranean built environment. Furthermore, the Agile framework introduced in this book offers highly adaptable insights that can inform sustainable retrofitting practices worldwide.