Overview
- Presents insights into the various issues related to the urban environment and micro climate change
- Highlights innovative geospatial techniques like urban zonation, urban heat island mapping and vulnerability analysis
- Presents step-by-step insight into the issues related to resilient cities
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Conceptual Framework
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Development Potentials and Challenges
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Urban Health and Wellbeing
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Environmental Concern
Keywords
About this book
Worldwide, communities at the international, national and local level are continuously working to improve human habitats. In order to make our planet more sustainable, the UN has moved from the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Among the latter, the aim of SDG 11 is to “…make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.” In light of these challenges, various terms have emerged to help understand urban issues. Visualizing the problem, the United Nations program “Making Cities Resilient” is focused on mitigating the disaster risk in urban areas.
This book analyzes terms such as: sustainable, resilient, livable, inclusive, smart and world class city, which have emerged in the process of combating urban challenges in today’s world. The book addresses emerging concepts for cities, challenges and potentials, urban environments, health and planning/policies. Covering 14 large cities in India, as well as case studies from Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Poland and Sweden, it provides a regional dimension to and micro-level perspective on urban issues.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making Cities Resilient
Editors: Vishwa Raj Sharma, Chandrakanta
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94932-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-94931-4Published: 27 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-94932-1Published: 08 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 345
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Development, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Migration, Urban Economics, Human Geography