Radical Adaptation

Préface
First book to explore the adaptive transformations required to manage climate-related shocks beginning to play out in cities worldwide.

Auteur

Brian Stone, Jr. is a Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches urban environmental planning and directs the Urban Climate Lab. Stone's program of research is focused on urban scale drivers of climate change and has been supported by the National Science Foundation, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and US Environmental Protection Agency. Stone's work on urbanization and climate change is regularly featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on National Public Radio. He is author of The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live (2012, Cambridge University Press), which received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. Stone holds degrees in environmental management and urban planning from Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Texte du rabat

This book considers the everyday conduits through which climate instability is revealing itself: the storm sewer drain on your street, the powerlines transporting your electricity, the mix of vegetation in your backyard or neighborhood park - these are the pathways through which climate change is most likely to impact your life. For many, these are the last places we expect it to. The first book to establish a framework for climate change adaptation, Stone's aim is to understand how climate change is altering our lives in the present period - this period of transition between the ancient, stable climate of our ancestors and the unfolding, no longer stable climate of our children - and how our cities might adapt to these changes. Stone's concern is with the risks posed by a new environmental regime for which our modes of living are ill-adapted, and with how these modes of living must be altered - radically altered - to persist in a climate changed world.

Résumé
This book considers the everyday conduits through which climate instability will manifest: the storm sewer drain on your street, the powerlines transporting your electricity, the mix of vegetation in your backyard or neighborhood park these are the channels through which climate change is most likely to impact your life. For many, these are the last places we expect it to. In this book, Stone's aim is to understand how climate change is altering our lives in the present period this period of transition between the ancient, stable climate of our ancestors and the unfolding, no longer stable climate of our children and how our cities might adapt to these changes. Stone's concern is with the risks posed by a new environmental regime for which our modes of living are ill adapted, and with how these modes of living must be altered radically altered to persist in a climate changed world.

Contenu

1. Heat; 2. Water (Too Much); 3. Water (Too Little); 4. Retreat Postscript: Vine City References; References; Index.