Urban regions now & tomorrow : between vulnerability, resilience and transformation / editor, Sonja Deppisch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deppisch, Sonja, editor.

Series:

Studien zur Resilienzforschung

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning.

Sociology, Urban.

Physical Description:

x, 276 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden : Springer, [2017]

Summary:

This book is dealing with past, current and future change processes in European, Northern American as well as Australian cities and urban regions, and with the challenges they pose to a resilient urban development. Additionally, contributions deal with potential transformations of urban and regional development and related planning and governance approaches. It is referred to three dominant concepts on how it can be dealt with long-term or surprising and also sudden disastrous change, with an overweight on resilience.

Contents:

Cities and urban regions under change

between vulnerability, resilience, transition and transformation / Sonja Deppisch

The role of monitoring spatio-temporal change in achieving resilience of the suburban landscape / Eleni A. Athanasiadou and Maria Tratsela

Beyond a fragmented and sector-oriented knowledge for a sustainable and resilient urban development. The case of the metropolitan city of Naples / Adriana Galderisi and Giada Limongi

Resilience, sustainability and transformability of cities as complex adaptive systems / Marta Olazabal

The challenge of change : planning for social urban resilience / Anna Widborg

Sustainable disaster resilience? Tensions between socio-economic recovery and built environment post-disaster reconstruction in Abruzzo (Italy) / Grazia Di Giovanni and Lorenzo Chelleri

Dealing with surprise in urban regions

some ideas and examples for planners / Gérard Hutter

Resilience thinking as leitmotif in urban and regional planning dealing with climate change impacts / Sonja Deppisch

Developing resilient urban waterfronts : integrating adaptation into urban development and management / Peter C. van Veelen

Making infrastructure climate resilient : bridging the transformation gap with "living labs" / Ernst Schäfer and Ulrich Scheele

From linear to circular

challenges for changing urban metabolism?! An analysis of local energy transition activities in four European cities / Katharina Klindworth, Aleksandra Djurasovic, Jörg Knieling and Katja Säwert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

3658167580

9783658167585

OCLC:

964379550