City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis: A Multidisciplinary Approach

This book explores how contemporary urban life takes the Holocene for granted and warns that anthropogenic environmental impacts are on course to challenge the viability of most human settlements. It offers a critical appraisal of the end of an urban epoch and looks at specific issues and cases illustrating alternative adaptation pathways. It is a timely resource for urban studies, environmental science, and development studies scholars and practitioners.

Format: Hardback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 19 November 2021
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the ways in which modern urban life often takes the Holocene for granted, serving as a stark warning about the impending environmental impacts that threaten the viability of most human settlements. Despite increasing warnings, it highlights the prevailing denial among most cities, as they remain ill-prepared to handle significant disruptions.

The book explores a critical appraisal of the end of an urban epoch: the Holocene city. It shifts from broader discussions of urban vulnerability in the Anthropocene to examine specific issues and cases that showcase alternative adaptation pathways. Furthermore, it conducts a thorough analysis of existing approaches, movements, and networks for urban preparedness in the face of the climate crisis, offering visualizations for improvement and proposing alternative futures for reinventing the city.

As a timely resource on this emerging topic, the book holds immense value for scholars in urban studies, environmental science, and development studies. Practitioners in urban planning, design, management, and evaluation will particularly benefit from the critical case studies presented within its pages.

Weight: 788g
Dimension: 162 x 242 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800883659