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Radical adaptation : transforming cities for a climate changed world / Brian Stone, Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology.

By: Stone, Brian, Jr [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024Description: 1 online resource (ix, 154 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781009211192 (ebook).Subject(s): Municipal engineering | City planning -- Climatic factors | Climate change mitigation | Cities and towns | Urban climatologyAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 628 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Prologue : dead pool -- Heat -- Water (too much) -- Water (too little) -- Retreat -- Postscript : Vine City.
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.
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Prologue : dead pool -- Heat -- Water (too much) -- Water (too little) -- Retreat -- Postscript : Vine City.

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.

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