Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities: Small Interventions for Stronger Urban Food-Water-Energy Management

This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability,and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. It suggests tangible ways in which cities and communities can become more efficient and climate resilient through small changes to their existing infrastructure.

Format: Hardback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 27 July 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into the intricate relationship between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability, unveiling the remarkable potential of small adjustments to this nexus for the development of more resilient cities and communities. By drawing upon data from Urban Living Labs in six participating cities, including Eindhoven, Gdańsk, Miami, Southend-on-Sea, Taipei, and Uppsala, the book collaboratively defines context-specific challenges, leading to the compilation of an Integrated Decision Support System. This system serves as a valuable guide for robust decision-making in future urban development, drawing insights from a diverse range of experts, including urban climate modeling, food, water, and energy management, resilient public space design, improved urban data collection, and smart city technology.

While previous works on the Food-Water-Energy nexus have primarily examined large-scale, transnational cases, this book takes a local approach, exploring how cities and communities can leverage the Food-Water-Energy nexus to enhance urban resilience. It offers practical and tangible ways in which cities and communities can improve efficiency and climate resilience by implementing small changes to their existing infrastructure. Recognizing the growing importance of urbanization, with over half of the world's population currently living in urban areas and projected to reach 68% by 2050, this book serves as a crucial planning tool for decision-makers. It concludes with policy recommendations that make its insights relevant to a wide range of audiences, including urbanists, environmentalists, architects, urban designers, city planners, students, and scholars interested in alternative approaches to sustainability and resilience.

Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at {URL}, allowing readers to delve deeper into the topics discussed and gain valuable insights into the future of urban sustainability.

Weight: 560g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367631987