Urban Climate – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Guttila Yugantha Jayasinghe, Keerththana Kumareswaran

Green Infrastructure and Urban Climate Resilience

This book aims to cover most subject areas of green infrastructure such as components, multi-functionality, and integration to build environment, contribution to urban sustainability, sustainable and smar…

Urban Metabolism and Climate Change

This book provides a basic understanding and state-of-the-art of urban metabolism. Urban centres are increasingly challenged by population increase and the resultant environmental concerns including the u…

Urban Resilience, Livability, and Climate Adaptation

This book explores urban environments and their impact on resilience, livability, climate adaptation, health, and societal well-being. It provides interdisciplinary insights for fostering resilient, livab…

Urban Resilience to the Climate Emergency

This volume sheds light on urban resilience strategies in times of climate emergency and social and economic crisis by reflecting on related social vulnerabilities and inequalities within cities and showi…

Hans Zimmer

Planet Earth III

Local Climate Zone Application in Sustainable Urban Development

The study of local climate zones (LCZ) links urban morphology, land use and land cover types, human activity, and thermal properties, and provides a standard framework for studying urban climatic issues. …

Mohsen Aboulnaga, Antonella Trombadore, Mona Mostafa, Ahmed Abouaiana

Livable Cities

Livable Cities: Urban Heat Islands Mitigation for Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Greening elucidates on livability in urban areas, providing readers with definitions and indicators of what makes …

Urban Mobility

This book examines shifts in urban mobility with a focus on technological disruption, pandemic-induced travel change, and the climate crisis in twenty-first century Canadian cities.

Urban Mobility

This book examines shifts in urban mobility with a focus on technological disruption, pandemic-induced travel change, and the climate crisis in twenty-first century Canadian cities.

Alexander Reid Ross, Heejun Chang

Climate Change, Urbanization, and Water Resources

This book discusses resilient urban water resources management in the context of climate change and ongoing urbanization. Twelve cities worldwide representing different climates and growth stages serve as…

Blue-Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Settlements

Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is now recognized as beneficial in terms of maintaining water flows and thermal comfort in urban areas. A framework of ecosystem services for urban settlements may be instr…

Stephanie Wakefield

Miami in the Anthropocene

Reimagining adaptation amidst climate change–driven mutations of urban space and life   Between its susceptibility to flooding and an ever-expanding real estate market powered by global surges of people …

Mike Davis

Dead Cities

For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital-and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises-was always a central part of his…

Mike Davis

Dead Cities

For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital-and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises-was always a central part of his…

Homelessness to Hope

Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Practices on Global Perspectives brings together stories, observations and critical appraisals that have emerged out of interdisciplinary studies spanning the gl…

Nadina Galle

The Nature of Our Cities

"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Jonathan Doerr, THE NATURE OF OUR CITIES is a stirring exploration of how scientists from around the world are harnessing local ecology and innovative technology…

Morton Valence

Black Angel Drifter (180g)

Product Information The purveyors of 'Urban Country", Morton Valence release their dark 7th album on legendary UK label Cow Pie, established in 1978 by BJ Cole. 'Black Angel Drifter' is an album of …

Giyasuddin Siddique, Nabanita Mukherjee

Impact of Climate Change in the Indian Sundarbans Region

This book studies climate change vulnerability in the Southern Part of the Indian Sundarbans Region, West Bengal, following the IPCC framework which highlights three prime components of vulnerability - ex…

Three Day Week: When The Light Went Out 1972 - 1975

Product Information Britain wasn’t on its own in having a thoroughly miserable 1973: O Lucky Man! and Badlands both found a great year to premiere, while Watergate brought America to a new low. But Amer…