Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com
Image from Google Jackets

The risk city : cities countering climate change : emerging planning theories and practices around the world / Yosef Jabareen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New York : Springer, 2015.Description: xv, 204 p. : ill, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789401797672 (hbk.)
  • 9789401797689 (ebook)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 338.927 YOS 008182
Contents:
List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Theorizing the Risk City -- 3: Planning Practices for Cities Countering Climate Change -- 4: Assessment Methods: Planning Practices Countering Climate Change -- 5: Planning Practices of the Risk City around the World -- 6: Applying the Countering Climate Change Evaluation Method to a City Plan -- 7: Contemporary Planning of the Risk City: The Case of New York City.- 8: The Risk City Resilience Trajectory.- 9: The Deficient Resilient Cities: Hurricane Sandy in New York City -- 10: Vulnerability and uncertainty of extreme space weather events.- 11: The Urban Vulnerability Matrix -- Bibliography.
SpringerLINK ebooks - Energy (2015)
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 338.927 YOS 008182 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 008182

Includes bibliographical references.

List of Figures --
List of Tables --
Acknowledgments --
1: Introduction --
2: Theorizing the Risk City --
3: Planning Practices for Cities Countering Climate Change --
4: Assessment Methods: Planning Practices Countering Climate Change --
5: Planning Practices of the Risk City around the World --
6: Applying the Countering Climate Change Evaluation Method to a City Plan --
7: Contemporary Planning of the Risk City: The Case of New York City.- 8: The Risk City Resilience Trajectory.- 9: The Deficient Resilient Cities: Hurricane Sandy in New York City --
10: Vulnerability and uncertainty of extreme space weather events.- 11: The Urban Vulnerability Matrix --
Bibliography.

License restrictions may limit access.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.