Urban climate adaptation and mitigation / Ayyoob Sharifi and 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.

"Uniquely focused on the contributions smart cities can make to climate change resilience, Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation offers evidence-based scientific solutions for improving cities' abilities to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to global climate-related events. Beginning with the observation of global environmental change, this book explores what sustainable smart projects are, how they are adopted and evaluated, and how they can address climate change challenges. It brings together a wide variety of disciplines such as planning, transportation, and waste management to address issues related to climate change adaptation and mitigation in cities.In general, many social science researchers lack cohesive, broad-based literature knowledge; Urban Climate Adaptation and Mitigation bridges this gap and informs different types of stakeholders on how they can enhance their preparation abilities to enable real-time responses and actions. Therefore, it is a valuable reference for researchers, professors, graduate students, city planners, and policy makers. Application-focused throughout, this book explores the complexities of urban systems and subsystems to support researchers, planners, and decision makers in their efforts toward developing more climate-resilient smart cities"-- Page 4 of cover.