This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and
sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this
nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. Using
data from Urban Living Labs in six participating cities (Eindhoven,
Gdańsk, Miami, Southend-on-Sea, Taipei, and Uppsala) to co-define
context-specific challenges, the results from each city are collated
into an Integrated Decision Support System to guide and improve robust
decision-making on future urban development. The book presents
contributions from CRUNCH, a transdisciplinary team of scholars and
practitioners whose expertise spans urban climate modelling; food,
water, and energy management; the design of resilient public space;
collecting better urban data; and the development of smart city
technology. Whilst previous works on the Food-Water-Energy nexus have
focused on large, transnational cases, this book explores local ways
to use the Food-Water-Energy nexus to improve urban resilience. It
suggests tangible ways in which the cities and communities around us
can become both more efficient and more climate resilient through
small changes to their existing infrastructure. Over half of the
world’s population lives in urban areas, and this is expected to
increase to 68% by 2050. We urgently need to make our cities more
resilient. This book provides a planning tool for decision-making and
concludes with policy recommendations, making it relevant to a range
of audiences including urbanists, environmentalists, architects, urban
designers, and city planners, as well as students and scholars
interested in alternative approaches to sustainability and resilience.
Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open
Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Small Interventions for Stronger Urban Food-Water-Energy Management
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781000606577
Publisert
2022
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Utgiver
Taylor & Francis
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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