TY - BOOK ID - 125208485 TI - Urban Climate and Adaptation Tools AU - Georgiadis, Teodoro AU - Cremonini, Letizia PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Research & information: general KW - ACCCRN KW - Climate change adaptation KW - institutionalising adaptation KW - hybrid institutionalism KW - mainstreaming resilience KW - urban resilience and adaptation KW - urban green system KW - ecosystem services KW - climate change benefits KW - resilient city KW - urban resilient development KW - green urban planning KW - pollution flow patterns KW - wind circulation patterns KW - emission inventory KW - criteria pollutants KW - Mexico City KW - urban heat island KW - urbanization KW - urban surface energy balance KW - fluidodynamic modeling KW - Envi-Met KW - human biometeorology KW - thermal comfort KW - interdisciplinarity KW - climate change adaptation KW - thermal sensitive design KW - web-based platform KW - early warning system KW - vulnerability simulations KW - flood risk maps KW - rainfall estimates KW - microwave links KW - CML KW - crowdsourcing KW - sensible targets KW - urban greening KW - UrbClim model KW - water bodies KW - systems change KW - innovation KW - nature-based solutions KW - cities KW - urban climate KW - open data KW - data sources KW - urban climate monitoring UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:125208485 AB - There is pressing evidence of phenomena, linked to meteorology and climate, which are modifying their temporal occurrence and which have a very evident impact on the safety and health of populations residing in cities. The urban problem at the beginning of the second set of twenty years of the new century requires a complete rethinking of the way of aggregation of man who, today, represents a large part of the world population due to increasingly accelerated urbanization processes over time. The human being has become a citizen, and within the city limits, he tries to develop his life expectancy by seizing opportunities from this. This search for well-being, understood as a complete state of man, at once physiological and psychological and social, can be thwarted by an urban structure that is not functionally capable of providing answers. The climate problem exacerbates this problem by strongly stressing the contradictions of living. Science, technology, and politics are today able to give answers if applied wisely in a joint effort, in a unit of language. This book proposes several solutions that can be implemented today, ranging from a full understanding of phenomena to adaptation policies for solving problems. The most pressing invitation is addressed precisely to politics to make cities more resilient and safe. ER -