Neighborhood-scale climate adaptation: improving community resilience to urban heat stress and air pollution
| dc.contributor.author | Shandas, Vivek | |
| dc.contributor.author | van Diepen-Hedayat, Anandi | |
| dc.contributor.author | Voelkel, Jackson | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rao, Meenakshi | |
| dc.contributor.author | George, Linda | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-03T10:00:09Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-03T10:00:09Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Planning organizations throughout the United States are attempting to mitigate and adapt to the imminent consequences of a warming planet. Cities pose an immediate threat to and opportunity for improving the capacity for socio-ecological resilience to climate-induced impacts to citizens, businesses, and society at large. Indeed, with the majority of humans now living in urban areas, a critical policy and planning mandate is to develop effective approaches to reducing emissions of climate warming gases, and ameliorating the impacts to those most impacted by climate change, particularly extreme weather events. While mitigation of green house gases (GHGs) is well underway by many cities in the Western Hemisphere, adaptation strategies are only emerging (Adger, 2006). Moreover, there are mechanisms of planning and policy that directly reduce the implications to the health and welfare impacts of climate change on urban citizens, and especially those who are least able to cope with extreme climate events (e.g. flooding, urban heat islands, tropospheric ozone, etc.). To address these challenges, planning organizations seek to understand approaches effective in reducing vulnerability and improving resiliency of local communities. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 1189-1191 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2017 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | Neighborhood-scale climate adaptation: improving community resilience to urban heat stress and air pollution | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |