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Full Description
This book highlights practical pathways for strengthening climate resilience in cities through innovative strategies, governance reforms, and human-centered approaches. Integrating insights from urban design, policy, mental health, environmental management, and remote sensing, it showcases solutions ranging from heat-mitigation techniques and green infrastructure to participatory climate justice, eco-psychology, and AI-driven disaster preparedness. With evidence-based case studies from India and the Global South, this book offers actionable frameworks for planners, policymakers, researchers, and practitioners seeking to implement climate-smart interventions and promote sustainable, resilient, and equitable urban futures.
Contents
Part 1: Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigation strategies.- Issues and challenges in the mitigation strategies of Urban Heat Island (UHI).- Nature-based solutions for mitigating combined impacts of heat waves and urban heat Island.- Bioclimatic design as a strategy to mitigate the impacts of urban heat island: An overview.- Investigating urban heat island effects and mitigation strategies in Ahmedabad, India.- Innovative strategies and solutions for mitigating the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect.- Application of remote sensing and GIS for developing heat action plans.- Part 2: Urban policy, governance and sustainable development.- Transforming energy and emission-intensive industry towards zero emissions - A policy framework.- Role of participatory approach and local governance in achieving climate justice for cities.- Cities in transition: A case study based geospatial investigation for impact of urban expansion on ecology in Kolkata municipal corporation and its surroundings.- Legal implications of green building initiatives in the context of climate change and sustainable development goals.- Part 3: Urban mental well-being.- Applications of clinical ecopsychology and ecotherapy in psychological intervention and wellbeing: Scopes and challenges.- Collage urbanism: Creating a framework for citizen-centric urban eco-psychology.- Part 4: Urban environmental management and resilience.- Catalysing awareness on urban climate: A critical study on narrative elements and reception of sustainability advertising.- Artificial intelligence and urban disasters resilience: Building a concptual model using literature review.- Environmental education and its impact on promoting a clean environment.- Rethinking climate change, extreme events, and resilience in the South Pacific: A systematic review.
