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Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban Development starts with a presentation of three widespread Urban Metaphors, which are gaining increasing attention from urban planners and decision-makers: Smart City, Resilient City and Transition Towns, being all of them focused on the need for enhancing cities'capacities to cope with the multiple and heterogeneous challenges threatening contemporary cities and their future development and, above all, with climate issues. Then, the Authors provide an overview of current large-scale and urban strategies to counterbalance climate change so far undertaken in different geographical contexts (Europe, United States, China, Africa and Australia), shedding light on the different approaches, on the different weights assigned to mitigation and adaptation issues as well as on the main barriers hindering their effectiveness and translation into measurable outcomes. Opportunities and criticalities arising from the rich, ‘sprawled'and ‘blurred'landscape of current strategies and initiatives in the face of climate change pave the way to a discussion on the lessons learnt from current initiatives an

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Author

Adriana Galderisi, Angela Colucci

Publisher

Elsevier Science

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780128114780

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Sociology, Social Science