Urban Climate and Adaptation Tools

• Other Authors: Georgiadis, Teodoro (Editor), Cremonini, Letizia (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; ACCCRN; Climate change adaptation; institutionalising adaptation; hybrid institutionalism; mainstreaming resilience; urban resilience and adaptation; urban green system; ecosystem services; climate change benefits; resilient city; urban resilient development; green urban planning; pollution flow patterns; wind circulation patterns; emission inventory; criteria pollutants; Mexico City; urban heat island; urbanization; urban surface energy balance; fluidodynamic modeling; Envi-Met; human biometeorology; thermal comfort; interdisciplinarity; climate change adaptation; thermal sensitive design; web-based platform; early warning system; vulnerability simulations; flood risk maps; rainfall estimates; microwave links; CML; crowdsourcing; sensible targets; urban greening; UrbClim model; water bodies; systems change; innovation; nature-based solutions; cities; urban climate; open data; data sources; urban climate monitoring
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There is pressing evidence of phenomena, linked to meteorology and climate, which are modifying their temporal occurrence and which have a very evident impact on the safety and health of populations residing in cities. The urban problem at the beginning of the second set of twenty years of the new century requires a complete rethinking of the way of aggregation of man who, today, represents a large part of the world population due to increasingly accelerated urbanization processes over time. The human being has become a citizen, and within the city limits, he tries to develop his life expectancy by seizing opportunities from this. This search for well-being, understood as a complete state of man, at once physiological and psychological and social, can be thwarted by an urban structure that is not functionally capable of providing answers. The climate problem exacerbates this problem by strongly stressing the contradictions of living. Science, technology, and politics are today able to give answers if applied wisely in a joint effort, in a unit of language. This book proposes several solutions that can be implemented today, ranging from a full understanding of phenomena to adaptation policies for solving problems. The most pressing invitation is addressed precisely to politics to make cities more resilient and safe.