Climate change resilience in the urban environment / Tristan Kershaw.

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1. Climate change and its impacts -- 1.1. The greenhouse effect -- 1.2. The historic climate signal -- 1.3. The anthropogenic greenhouse effect -- 1.4. Climate change projections -- 1.5. Climate change impacts

2. Water -- 2.1. Sea level rise -- 2.2. Storm surges -- 2.3. Flooding -- 2.4. Flash flooding -- 2.5. Potential solutions -- 2.6. Conclusions

3. Temperatures -- 3.1. Human physiology -- 3.2. Building physics and possible adaptations -- 3.3. Learning from other architectures -- 3.4. Summary

4. The urban heat island (UHI) -- 4.1. Boundary layer creation -- 4.2. The energetic basis and UHI creation -- 4.3. Weather influence -- 4.4. Implications of the UHI on the built environment -- 4.5. Air quality in cities -- 4.6. Green and blue infrastructure -- 4.7. Thermal effects of green space -- 4.8. Green space implications for city planning -- 4.9. Green building envelopes -- 4.10. Thermal properties of blue space -- 4.11. Thermal effects of blue space -- 4.12. Urban planning for the UHI

5. Weather extremes -- 5.1. Heatwaves -- 5.2. Storms

6. Conclusions -- 6.1. Building resilience -- 6.2. Urban resilience.

Between 1930 and 2030, the world's population will have flipped from 70% rural to 70% urban. While much has been written about the impacts of climate change and mitigation of its effects on individual buildings or infrastructure, this book is one of the first to focus on the resilience of whole cities. It covers a broad range of area-wide disaster-level impacts, including drought, heatwaves, flooding, storms and air quality, which many of our cities are ill-adapted to cope with, and unless we can increase the resilience of our urban areas then much of our current building stock may become uninhabitable.