Barbara Norman

Gebundenes Buch

Urban Planning for Climate Change

Beschreibung

This book tackles the future challenges and opportunities for planning our cities and towns in a changing climate and recommends key actions for more resilient urban futures. Urban Planning for Climate Change focusses on how urban planning is fundamental to action on climate change.

Autor

Barbara Norman is Emeritus Professor of Urban & Regional Planning at the University of Canberra and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Australia. She is also Director Urban Climate Change Research Network Oceania Hub (Columbia University, USA), Co-chair Planners for Climate Action (UN Habitat) and Vice Chair, Director, Australian Coastal Society. Professor Norman is a global expert in sustainable cities and regions, smart infrastructure, coastal planning, climate change adaptation and urban governance. Professor Norman's has a combined professional and academic background as a former national president of the Planning Institute of Australia, and an honoraray member of the Royal Town Planning Instutue (UK). Recent international research includes Sustainable Pathways for our Cities and Regions: planning within planetary boundaries (Routledge, 2018); Are autonomous cities our urban future? Comment in Nature Communications (Nature Communications, 2018) and Apocalypse Now: Australian Bushfires and the future of Urban Settlements (Nature Urban Sustainability). Professor Norman's new book is Urban Planning for Climate Change (Routledge, October 2022).

Produktdetails

• Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780367486013
• ISBN-10: 0367486016
• Artikelnr.: 65611078