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Urban Metabolism and Climate Change

This book provides a basic understanding and state-of-the-art of urban metabolism. Urban centres are increasingly challenged by population increase and the resultant environmental concerns including the u…

Urban Forests, Climate Change and Environmental Pollution

This book contributes significantly to the international literature by bringing forth a novel and comprehensive exploration of urban resilience in the face of climate change and environmental pollution. I…

Hans Zimmer

Planet Earth III

Mohsen Aboulnaga, Ahmed Abouaiana, Mona Mostafa, Antonella Trombadore

Livable Cities

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 …

Blue-Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Settlements

Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is now recognized as beneficial in terms of maintaining water flows and thermal comfort in urban areas. A framework of ecosystem services for urban settlements may be instr…

Urban Mobility

This book examines shifts in urban mobility with a focus on technological disruption, pandemic-induced travel change, and the climate crisis in twenty-first century Canadian cities.

Stephanie Wakefield

Miami in the Anthropocene

"Miami in the Anthropocene explores the social, environmental, and technical transformations involved in climate adaptation infrastructure in a global city seen as climate change ground zero. Grounding he…

Mike Davis

Dead Cities

For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital-and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises-was always a central part of his…

Sam Bloch

Shade

An extraordinary investigation into shade, bringing together science, history, urban design, and social justice to change the way we think about a critical natural resource that should be available to all…

Mike Davis

Dead Cities

For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital-and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises-was always a central part of his…

Nadina Galle

The Nature of Our Cities

"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Jonathan Doerr, THE NATURE OF OUR CITIES is a stirring exploration of how scientists from around the world are harnessing local ecology and innovative technology…

Critical Ecolinguistics Within Singapore, 'The Garden City'

A critical ecolinguistics case study of an entire city nation, Singapore, and of the stories told about and by it in relation to its efforts of sustainability, response to climate change, and commitment t…

David Brown Morris

Ten Thousand Central Parks

A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate action Climate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, an…

Gilles Stockton

Feeding a Divided America

In Feeding a Divided America, third-generation Montana rancher and international agriculture development specialist Gilles Stockton explores the causes of what he refers to as the "rural-urban divide" and…

Adapting to Urban Heat:

Adapting to Urban Heat: Strategies and Tools for Resilience in Low Carbon Cities provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the issues associated with adapting to climate change and building urb…

Guttila Yugantha Jayasinghe, Keerththana Kumareswaran

Green Infrastructure and Urban Climate Resilience

This book aims to cover most subject areas of green infrastructure such as components, multi-functionality, and integration to build environment, contribution to urban sustainability, sustainable and smar…

Green Infrastructure

This book analyses international Green Infrastructure (GI) planning and design strategies. The GI strategy is widely recognized for its multifunctionality (as a tool for ecological, economic and social en…

Applied Geography and Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development

This volume presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Geography and Geoinformatics for Sustainable Development (ICGGS), held in Can Tho, Vietnam, November 30 - December 2, 2023. It f…