The risk city : cities countering climate change : emerging planning theories and practices around the world /: cities countering climate change : emerging planning theories and practices around the world. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Yosef Jabareen.
• Authors: Jabareen, Yousef T
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Dordrecht : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.73874; Climatic changes; Risk management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Climatic changes; Risk management; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789401797689; 9401797684; 9401797676; 9789401797672
• Related ISBNs: 9789401797672
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 30, 2015).
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