Urban climate adaptation and mitigation / Ayyoob Sharifi ; Amir Reza Khavarian-Garmsir.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Urbanization in the context of global environmental change -- Climate change adaptation and mitigation in cities -- Smart cities: key definitions and new directions -- Smart city solutions and climate change adaptation: an overview -- Smart city solutions and climate change mitigation: an overview -- The fundamentals of smart city assessment -- Assessment tools and indicators for smart city assessment -- The extent of inclusion of smart city indicators in existing urban sustainability assessment tools -- Indicators to assess contributions of smart city solutions and technologies to urban resilience -- Contributions of smart technologies to disaster resilience -- A typology analysis of smart city projects around the world -- Urban scale climate change adaptation through smart technologies -- Automated object extraction of satellite imagery to estimate the loss of vegetative land cover and inform climate adaptation actions in San Antonio, Texas -- Smart transformation in Iran, a step toward adaptation and reduction of climate change -- Technological solutions for adaptation with Iran's water resources crisis -- The way forward for data driven and climate-resilient cities.