Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation

Uniquely focused on the contributions smart cities can make to climate change resilience, Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation offers evidence-based, scientific solutions for improving cities ability to prepare, recover, and adapt to global climate-related events. Bringing together a wide variety of research disciplines to addresses the linkages to climate change adaptation and mitigation topics with planning, transportation, and waste management, the book informs different types of stakeholders on how they can enhance their preparation abilities to enable real-time response methods. Application-focused throughout, Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation explores the complexities of urban systems and subsystems to support researchers, planners, and decision-makers in their efforts toward developing more climate-resilient smart cities. Structured, in-depth analysis of smart city cases from around the world Evidence-based toolkits and frameworks for assessing contribution of smart city solutions to climate resilience State-of-the-art literature review and glossary