Radical adaptation : transforming cities for a climate changed world / Brian Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Brian, Jr., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Municipal engineering.

City planning--Climatic factors.

City planning.

Climate change mitigation.

Cities and towns.

Urban climatology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 154 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This book considers the everyday conduits through which climate instability is revealing itself: the storm sewer drain on your street, the powerlines transporting your electricity, the mix of vegetation in your backyard or neighborhood park--these are the pathways through which climate change is most likely to impact your life. For many, these are the last places we expect it to. The first book to establish a framework for climate change adaptation, Stone's aim is to understand how climate change is altering our lives in the present period--this period of transition between the ancient, stable climate of our ancestors and the unfolding, no longer stable climate of our children--and how our cities might adapt to these changes. Stone's concern is with the risks posed by a new environmental regime for which our modes of living are ill-adapted, and with how these modes of living must be altered--radically altered--to persist in a climate changed world." --Back cover

Contents:

Prologue : dead pool

Heat

Water (too much)

Water (too little)

Retreat

Postscript : Vine City

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009211185

1009211188

9781009211208

100921120X

9781009211192

1009211196