Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges
Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges
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使城市适应气候变化：理解和应对发展挑战
DOI：
10.1080/09614524.2010.508119
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发表时间：
2010
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1
通讯作者：
B. Barth
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作者：
B. Barth
目前地球上的书评生活在城市中，十分之九的孩子出生在城市。这种变化最明显地发生在低收入和中等收入国家，这些国家通常最容易受到气候变化和发展挑战的影响。城市环境的极端转变严重挑战着城市发展的可持续性。为什么以及我们应该如何应对这一趋势？出版物时不时地会以令人耳目一新的方式改变其领域的话语。 《使城市适应气候变化：理解和应对发展挑战》就是这样一本书。本书是《环境与城市化》杂志上精选文章的合集，为回应当前有关气候变化和发展挑战的辩论而出版。虽然这些领域有大量文献，但大多数关于发展战略的书籍都涉及农村问题，而且许多关于气候变化的研究仅限于减少碳排放方面的缓解。《适应城市》则不同：它侧重于与低收入和中等收入国家城市住区相关的脆弱性问题，例如地震多发地区的建筑质量较差、缺乏足够的基础设施（道路、电力、灌溉、下水道系统等）、低海拔沿海地区的洪水、贫困或贫困造成的洪水等。不存在的排水系统、饮用水的潜在污染以及淡水供应的其他限制。由于其他脆弱性的竞争压力，例如经济或政治限制，或者由于缺乏相关知识或与社会暴露群体接触而导致的规划不善，这些单一的物理原因往往很难识别。通过不同的作者和案例研究，本书为识别这些复杂问题的挑战提供了广阔的视角，并且还成功地整合了如何应对未来场景的实用解决方案。最后，社论结论清楚地向读者阐明了挑战的原因
Book Reviews being on the planet currently lives in a city, and nine out of 10 children are born in cities. The change is most evidently happening in low-and middle-income countries, which typically are the most vulnerable to climate change and development challenges. The extreme transformation of urban environments severely challenges the sustainability of growing cities. Why and how should we respond to this trend? Every now and again a publication changes the discourse of its field in a refreshing manner. Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Understanding and Addressing the Development Challenges is such a book. This volume is a collection of selected articles from the journal Environment and Urbanization, published in response to the current debate on climate change and development challenges. While there is a vast literature available on these fields, most books on development strategies address rural issues, and much research on climate change is limited to mitigation in terms of reduction of carbon emissions.Adapting Cities is different: it focuses on vulnerability concerns related to urban settlements in low-and middle-income countries, such as poorly constructed buildings in earthquake-prone areas, lack of adequate infrastructure (roads, electricity, irrigation, sewer systems, etc.), flooding in low-elevation coastal zones, flooding caused by poor or non-existent drainage systems, potential contamination of drinking water, and other constraints of freshwater availability. These single physical causes are often hard to identify, due to the competing pressures of other vulnerabilities, such as economic or political restraints, or poor planning due to lack of relevant knowledge or contact with exposed groups of society. Through a diverse set of authors and case studies, this book offers broad perspectives on the challenge of identifying these complex issues, and it also succeeds in integrating practical solutions on how to tackle future scenarios. Finally, the editorial conclusion clearly illuminates for the reader why the challenges