City preparedness for the climate crisis : a multidisciplinary approach / edited by Francisco J. Carrillo, Cathy Garner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Carrillo, Francisco J., 1944- editor.

Garner, Cathy, editor.

Series:

Multidisciplinary Movements in Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Environmental aspects.

City planning.

City planning--Climatic factors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, [2021]

Summary:

Exploring the ways that contemporary urban life takes the Holocene for granted, this multidisciplinary book warns that anthropogenic environmental impacts are on course to challenge the viability of most human settlements. It highlights how, despite increased warnings, most cities appear to be in denial of the potential impending catastrophes and remain ill-prepared to handle major disruptions.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Tables

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: farewell to the Holocene city

PART I Urban climate vulnerability

1. Unprecedented challenge: implications for climate resilient urban planning

2. Insights and challenges from Oxfam's disaster management work

3. Down scale agency

4. The impossibility of accelerated risk management and possible pathways

PART II Pioneer movements in city preparedness

5. Directory of urban preparedness

6. Local adaptation plans: comparisons and lessons learned

7. Can salutogenesis contribute to prepare cities for climate change?

8. Competencies for viable subsistence

PART III Indicators and benchmarking

9. Cities and climate change: a review of current metrics

10. Knowledge city benchmarking and the MAKCi experience

11. Learnings from knowledge-based development metrics

12. Capital systems for city preparedness: a framework

PART IV Deep innovation and knowledge markets for city preparedness

13. Deep innovation

14. Knowledge markets regimes for the urban climate emergency

15. The sharing cosmopolis: prosperity without growth

16. Effective collaborative climate change governance in urban areas

PART V Staying with urban trouble

17. Urban dysfunctionalities before the Anthropocene

18. Bunkerization: elite preparedness and retreat in the Anthropocene

19. Climate change, migration, and preparedness

20. Relocation and climate migration

PART VI Urban futures

21. Urban autonomous zones and the mitigation of climate disasters

22. Urban relational capital and new transaction regimes

23. Neo-medievalism: self-governed sub national governments

24. An object-oriented framework for subsistence assurance

PART VII Re-imagining the city.

25. Political economies of 'The Commons'

26. A youth perspective on green local urban futures

27. Fostering resilient co-learning ecosystems in the city

28. Regenerative urban development

Conclusion to City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Carrillo, Francisco J. City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis

ISBN:

1-80088-366-8