Radical Adaptation: Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World - Hardcover

Stone Jr, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 100921117X ISBN 13: 9781009211178

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

First book to explore the adaptive transformations required to manage climate-related shocks beginning to play out in cities worldwide.

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About the Author

Brian Stone, Jr. is a Professor in the School of City and Regional Planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches urban environmental planning and directs the Urban Climate Lab. Stone's program of research is focused on urban scale drivers of climate change and has been supported by the National Science Foundation, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and US Environmental Protection Agency. Stone's work on urbanization and climate change is regularly featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on National Public Radio. He is author of The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live (2012, Cambridge University Press), which received a Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award. Stone holds degrees in environmental management and urban planning from Duke University and the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 100921117X
• ISBN 13: 9781009211178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 166