Konrad Otto-zimmermann

Resilient Cities 2: Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change - Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011 - Local Sustainability Konrad Otto-zimmermann 2012 edition

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2012.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Foreword Part I: Introduction 1. The Global Adaptation Community Expands Its Scope Part II: Urban Risk and Assessing Vulnerability at the Local Level 2. Introduction: Urban Risk and Assessing Vulnerability at the Local Level 3. A Region at Risk: Policy Determination Through Vulnerability Hotspot Assessment 4. Developing a Framework For Assessing Coastal Vulnerability To Sea Level Rise in Southern New England 5. Quantifying Impacts of Potential Sea-Level Rise Scenarios on Irish Coastal Cities 6. Mapping Risk and Vulnerability in Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region 7. Water Crisis: Public Management of a Critical Situation 8. Environmental Assessment and Restoration of Typhoon Morakot Disaster: A Case Study of Kaohsiung 9. Flood Risk Protection Concept For The Urban Region Geising/Altenberg in the Flood Formation Area of the Eastern Ore Mountains, GermanyPart III: Toward The Resilient City 10. Introduction: Toward the Resilient City 11. Water, Food and Energy Security 12. Nature at the Heart of Urban Design For Resilience 13. Smart City: Energy Efficiency in a New Scope 14. Resilient Food Systems For Resilient Cities 15. Urban Agriculture Casablanca 16. Adapting Cities To Climate Change: Scenarios For Urban Neighborhoods in the City Of Essen 17. Combining Urban Development With Climate Change Adaptation Using A Systems Approach 18. Towards A Resilient Architecture: The Case of Broset, Trondheim, Norway 19. Towards More Resilient Water Infrastructures 20. Building Equitable Urban Resilience: The Challenge For Cities 21. Climate Change and the Urban Poor: Support of the German Development Cooperation To a City in Bangladesh 22. The Green Infrastructure Transect: An Organisational Framework For Mainstreaming Adaptation Planning Policies Part IV: Frameworks For Local Response To Climate Change - Challenges and Recommendations 23. Introduction: Frameworks For Local Response To Climate Change - Challenges and Recommendations 24. Building Resilience in Asian Cities 25. A Science-Policy Approach Towards Local Adaptation Planning: The Case of Santiago De Chile 26. Participatory Action Adaptation: Tools For Increasing Climate Change Capacity and Preparedness at the Local Government Level 27. Knowledge and Information For Resilient Cities 28. Climate Change Guidelines For Urban Planning in the Basque Country 29. Integrated Roadmapping To Shape Adaptation Processes in Metropolitan Areas 30. The Significance Of Adaptation Framing In Local and Regional Climate Change Adaptation Planning Initiatives in Australia 31. Decision Making Frameworks For Adaptation To Extremes in Two Local Government Areas: Comparing and Contrasting India and Australia 32. Urban Climate Governance in The Philippines, Mexico and South Africa: National- and State-Level Legislation and Modes of Multi-Level Governance 33. Space For Adapting: Reconciling Adaptation and Mitigation in Local Climate Change Plans 34. The Early Experiences of Local Climate Change Adaptation in Norway Compared With That of Local Agenda 21 35. Climate Change Adaptation Plan of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 36. Integrated Climate Action: Linking Mitigation and Adaptation To Make Indonesian Cities Resilient 37. Enhancing The Climate Change Adaptation Capabilities of Local Governments in Korea: Supporting Programs For Local Adaptation Plan 38. Reality Check: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Part V: Financing The Resilient City 39. Introduction 40. A Demand Driven Approach To Development, Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Adaptation 41. Smarter Interventions in an Age of Uncertainty 42. Linking Resilience and Green Growth: How Green Business Can Contribute To More Resilient Cities in India 43. Green Areas Inner-City Agreement (GAIA): How Local Enterprises Can Contribute To Local Adaptation To Climate Change 44. Financing Climate Change Adaptation: The Copenhagen Example 45. Challenges on the Way To Financing Urban Climate Change Adaptation Glossary Index"Jacket Description/Back: Despite the cynicism of skeptics, climate change really is happening, and its effects will be most pronounced in cities. Many are vulnerable to small rises in sea level, while urbanisation is adding demographically derived stresses to already-pressurised urban ecosystem services. The combination of these factors suggests that efforts to respond to the negative impacts of climate change will have to be made at the local level, even as we collectively continue the important work of shaping and implementing adaptation and mitigation actions. In examining the most likely consequences of this double whammy of environmental and population impacts on urban areas, this book makes clear the need to incorporate climate change concerns into the mainstream of local planning, governance and policy making practices. By offering the conceptual framework for adaptation and implementation within cities, along with more practical adaptation measures, the authors demonstrate the key role cities must play in the fight against climate change. With urban communities as various as Copenhagen, Mexico City and Ho Chi Minh City already enacting policy proposals such as climate-proofing their infrastructure, there is much that other cities can learn from those in the vanguard. Assembling papers originally presented at the Resilient Cities 2011 Congress in Bonn, Germany (June 2011), the second global forum on cities and adaptation to climate change, this volume is the second in a series resulting from this annual event. These cutting-edge papers represent the latest research on the topic and reflect the intensification of the debate on the meaning of and interaction between climate adaptation, risk reduction and broader resilience."