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Climate change resilience in the urban environment /

Between 1930 and 2030, the world's population will have flipped from 70% rural to 70% urban. While much has been written about the impacts of climate change and mitigation of its effects on individual buildings or infrastructure, this book is one of the first to focus on the resilience of whole...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kershaw, Tristan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2017]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 4.
IOP expanding physics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Between 1930 and 2030, the world's population will have flipped from 70% rural to 70% urban. While much has been written about the impacts of climate change and mitigation of its effects on individual buildings or infrastructure, this book is one of the first to focus on the resilience of whole cities. It covers a broad range of area-wide disaster-level impacts, including drought, heatwaves, flooding, storms and air quality, which many of our cities are ill-adapted to cope with, and unless we can increase the resilience of our urban areas then much of our current building stock may become uninhabitable.
Notas:"Version: 20171201"--Title page verso.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (chiefly color).
Also available in print.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780750311977
9780750311991
ISSN:2053-2563