Planning for climate change : a reader in green infrastructure and sustainable design for resilient cities / edited by Elisabeth Hamin, Yaser Abunnasr, Robert Ryan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Optimism and hope in a hotter time / David W. Orr -- Summary for policymakers / IPCC -- A review of climate change impacts on the built environment / Robert Wilby -- Practical guide to collaborative project evaluation : how resilient is your project? / Rebecca Fricke and Elisabeth Hamin -- Stabilization wedges : solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies / S. Pacala and R. Socolow -- Cities and greenhouse gas emissions : moving forward / Dan Hoornweg, Lorraine Sugar, & Claudia Lorena Trejos Gomez -- The influence of urban form on GHG emissions in the U.S. household sector / Sungwon Lee & Bumsoo Lee -- An assessment of the link between greenhouse gas emissions inventories and climate action plans / Michael R. Boswell, Adrienne I. Greve & Tammy L. Seale -- Forces driving urban greenhouse gas emissions / David Dodman -- Climate change and health in cities : impacts of heat and air pollution and potential co-benefits from mitigation and adaptation / Sharon L. Harlan and Darren M. Ruddel -- Managing the risks of extreme events and disasters to advance climate change adaptation / IPCC -- Temporal and spatial changes in social vulnerability to natural hazards / Susan L. Cutter and Christina Finch -- The climate gap : inequalities in how climate change hurts Americans & how to close the gap / Rachel Morello Frosch, Manuel Pastor, Jim Sadd, and Seth Shonkoff -- Social-ecological resilience to coastal disasters / W. Neil Adger, Terry P. Hughes, Carl Folke, Stephen R. Carpenter, Johan Rockström -- Traditional peoples and climate change / J. Salick and N. Ross -- Green infrastructure : a landscape approach / David C. Rouse, and Ignacio Bunster-Ossa -- The green infrastructure transect: an organizational framework for mainstreaming adaptation planning policies / Yaser Abunnasr & Elisabeth M. Hamin -- Adapting cities for climate change : the role of the green infrastructure: built environment / Susannah Gill, J.F. Handley, Roland Ennos & Stephan Pauleit -- Climate change in suburbs : An exploration of key impacts and vulnerabilities / Robin Leichenko & William Solecki -- Avoided heat-related mortality through climate adaptation strategies in three US cities / Brian Ston Jr., J. Vargo, P. Liu, D. Habeeb, A. DeLucia, M. Trail, et al. -- Planning for cooler cities : a framework to prioritise green infrastructure to mitigate high temperatures in urban landscapes / Briony Norton, Andrew Coutts, Stephen Livesley, Richard Harris, Annie Hunter & Nicholas Williams -- How to make a city climate-proof, addressing the urban heat island effect / Laura Kleerekoper & Salcedo Tadeo Baldiri Rahola -- Urban design and adapting to flood risk : the role of green infrastructure / Mick Lennon, Mark Scott, & Eoin O'Neill -- Green infrastructure : a landscape approach / David C. Rouse, and Ignacio Bunster-Ossa -- Managing shoreline retreat : a US perspective / Carolyn Kousky -- Breaking the waves / Gabriel Popkin -- Interdependencies of urban climate change impacts and adaptation strategies : a case study of metropolitan Boston USA / Paul Kirshen, Ruth Matthias, & William Anderson -- Sustainable tourism, climate change and sea level rise adaptation policies in Barbados / Michelle Mycoo -- Urban form and climate change : balancing adaptation and mitigation in the U.S. and Australia / Elisabeth M. Hamin & Nicole Gurran -- Explaining Progress in Climate Adaptation Planning Across 156 U.S. Municipalities / Linda Shi, Eric Chu & Debates Garrison -- Urban wildscapes and green spaces in Mombasa and their potential contribution to climate change adaptation and mitigation / Justus Kithiia & Anna Lyth -- Making climate change visible : a critical role for landscape professionals / Stephen Sheppard.

This book provides an overview of the large and interdisciplinary literature on the substance and process of urban climate change planning and design, using the most important articles from the last 15 years to engage readers in understanding problems and finding solutions to this increasingly critical issue. The Reader's particular focus is how the impacts of climate change can be addressed in urban and suburban environments - what actions can be taken, as well as the need for and the process of climate planning. Both reducing greenhouse gas emissions as well as adapting to future climate are explored. Many of the emerging best practices in this field involve improving the green infrastructure of the city and region - providing better on-site stormwater management, more urban greening to address excess heat, zoning for regional patterns of open space and public transportation corridors, and similar actions. These actions may also improve current public health and livability in cities, bringing benefits now and into the future. This reader is innovative in bringing climate adaptation and green infrastructure together, encouraging a more hopeful perspective on the great challenge of climate change by exploring both the problems of climate change and local solutions"-- Provided by publisher.