Urbanized Deltas In Transition
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Urbanized Deltas In Transition
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Author : Han Meyer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-12-01
Urbanized Deltas In Transition written by Han Meyer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-01 with Architecture categories.
"Urbanized deltas are highly complex systems. They are the most densely urbanized and industrialized areas in the world; at the same time, they face many threats from climate change, being extremely vulnerable to flooding, erosion, and silting up of ports. Urbanized Deltas in Transition compares eight international deltas. Exploiting the power of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and employing high-quality global datasets, it studies the mutual relations among different components in a series of urban deltas, and proposes new perspectives for enhancing the adaptability of these vital regions" -- Back cover.
Delta Urbanism New Challenges For Planning And Design In Urbanized Deltas
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Delta Urbanism New Challenges For Planning And Design In Urbanized Deltas written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Adaptive Urban Transformation
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Author : Steffen Nijhuis
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-07-01
Adaptive Urban Transformation written by Steffen Nijhuis and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-01 with Architecture categories.
This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. Deltaic areas are among the most promising regions in the world. Their strategic location and superior quality of their soils are core factors supporting both human development and the rise of these regions as global economic hubs. At the same time, however, deltas are extremely vulnerable to multiple threats from both climate change and urbanisation. These include an increased flood risk combined with the resulting loss of ecological and social-cultural values. To ensure a more sustainable future for these areas, spatial strategies are needed to strengthen resilience, i.e. help the systems to cope with their vulnerabilities as well as enhance their capacity to overcome natural and artificial threats. The book provides a unique approach that integrates research in urban landscape systems, territorial governance and visualisation techniques that will help to achieve more integrated and resilient deltas. Based on an assessment of the dynamics of change regarding the transformational cycles of natural and urban landscape elements, eco-dynamic regional design strategies are explored to reveal greater opportunities for the exploitation of natural and social-cultural factors within the processes of urban development.
Complexity Cognition Urban Planning And Design
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Author : Juval Portugali
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-05-19
Complexity Cognition Urban Planning And Design written by Juval Portugali and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-19 with Business & Economics categories.
This book, which resulted from an intensive discourse between experts from several disciplines – complexity theorists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, urban planners and urban designers, as well as a zoologist and a physiologist – addresses various issues regarding cities. It is a first step in responding to the challenge of generating just such a discourse, based on a dilemma identified in the CTC (Complexity Theories of Cities) domain. The latter has demonstrated that cities exhibit the properties of natural, organic complex systems: they are open, complex and bottom-up, have fractal structures and are often chaotic. CTC have further shown that many of the mathematical formalisms and models developed to study material and organic complex systems also apply to cities. The dilemma in the current state of CTC is that cities differ from natural complex systems in that they are hybrid complex systems composed, on the one hand, of artifacts such as buildings, roads and bridges, and of natural human agents on the other. This raises a plethora of new questions on the difference between the natural and the artificial, the cognitive origin of human action and behavior, and the role of planning and designing cities. The answers to these questions cannot come from a single discipline; they must instead emerge from a discourse between experts from several disciplines engaged in CTC.
Chapter Water Heritage City Urbanized Deltas On The Line Between Nature And Culture
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Author : Giulia Luciani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Chapter Water Heritage City Urbanized Deltas On The Line Between Nature And Culture written by Giulia Luciani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Deltas are extremely rich in natural resources and cultural heritage, but also vulnerable. Along coasts and waterfronts, rivers, irrigation/drainage canals, which shape the land-water transition, a plurality of values, demands, and issues emerge in an often-conflictual way.A recurring conflict is that between anthropocentric and ecocentric attitudes, which could be overcome by an “environmental” approach. A case study from the Netherlands illustrates a paradigm shift and provides the basis to discuss the roles heritage can play in the search for a new synergy between natural and human actions.
The Urban Transition
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Author : John Friedmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Urban Transition written by John Friedmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Cities and towns categories.
Chapter Water Heritage City Urbanized Deltas On The Line Between Nature And Culture
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Chapter Water Heritage City Urbanized Deltas On The Line Between Nature And Culture written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Deltas are extremely rich in natural resources and cultural heritage, but also vulnerable. Along coasts and waterfronts, rivers, irrigation/drainage canals, which shape the land-water transition, a plurality of values, demands, and issues emerge in an often-conflictual way.A recurring conflict is that between anthropocentric and ecocentric attitudes, which could be overcome by an "environmental" approach. A case study from the Netherlands illustrates a paradigm shift and provides the basis to discuss the roles heritage can play in the search for a new synergy between natural and human actions.
Deltas In The Anthropocene
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Author : Robert J. Nicholls
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-08-28
Deltas In The Anthropocene written by Robert J. Nicholls and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-28 with Science categories.
The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the world in the last few decades. This open access book examines the challenges the Anthropocene presents to the sustainable management of deltas, both the many threats as well as the opportunities. In the world’s deltas the Anthropocene is manifest in major land use change, the damming of rivers, the engineering of coasts and the growth of some of the world’s largest megacities; deltas are home to one in twelve of all people in the world. The book explores bio-physical and social dynamics and makes clear adaptation choices and trade-offs that underpin policy and governance processes, including visionary delta management plans. It details new analysis to illustrate these challenges, based on three significant and contrasting deltas: the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna, Mahanadi and Volta. This multi-disciplinary, policy-orientated volume is strongly aligned to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals as delta populations often experience extremes of poverty, gender and structural inequality, variable levels of health and well-being, while being vulnerable to extreme and systematic climate change.
The Mekong Delta System
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Author : Fabrice G. Renaud
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-06-01
The Mekong Delta System written by Fabrice G. Renaud and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Science categories.
This book about the Mekong Delta presents a unique collection of state-of-the-art contributions by international experts from different scientific disciplines about the characteristics and pressing water-related challenges of the Mekong Delta in Vietnam. The Mekong Delta belongs to one of the areas, which are to expect the largest challenges concerning environmental change and climate change induced sea level rise . The Delta acts as the “rice bowl” of Southeast Asia and is home to over 17 Million people, who need to cope with ecologic as well as socio-economic changes linked to the rapid economic development of the country. Annual floods, severe droughts, salt water intrusion, degrading water quality, tropical cyclones, hydrologic changes due to hydropower projects in the upstream of the Mekong, coastal erosion, and the loss of biodiversity are some of the problems in the region. Heterogeneous resource management responsibilities, and the fact that the Mekong – and thus also the Delta – is influenced by six countries aggravate the situation. Integrated water resources management and fostered cooperation and information exchange are pressing needs for the sustainable development of the Delta.
Seacities
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Author : Joerg Baumeister
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-11-28
Seacities written by Joerg Baumeister and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-28 with Political Science categories.
This book presents and discusses a strategy which includes four approaches to dealing with the risk of sea-level rise and other water hazards. It also offers opportunities for cities to explore urban extensions such as marine estates, aquatic food production systems, new sea related industries, maritime transport developments, new oceanic tourist attractions, and the designation of additional coastal ecological zones. The urban interface between Sea and Cities generates, therefore, both burning issues and valuable opportunities and raises the question of whether it is possible to solve the former by exploiting the latter?