Supported by a large body of scholarship, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to
deploy urban greening interventions to address diverse socioenvironmental challenges …

Cities around the planet are facing climate change risks including (but not limited to)
extreme heat, drought, wildfire, and flooding. Urbanites perceptions of the risks posed by …

Green infrastructure is being pulled in divergent directions. As climate impacts intensify,
advocates are promoting larger, ecosystem-scale strategies to help mitigate flood risks. Yet …

Public policy in the US is partially influenced by public opinion. Studies that focus on the
factors that predict urban populations' strong supports for local climate adaptation policies …

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, one of the axioms of a “just recovery” was to redevelop the
city's historic high ground. While the call to limit the city's footprint problematized low-lying …

Climate change impacts are intensifying social inequalities locally and globally. Exposure to
climate risks, as well as the ability to prepare for and recover from them, are affected by …

Extreme heat events are happening more frequently and with greater severity, causing
significant negative consequences, especially for vulnerable urban populations around the …

Names: Fields, Billy (Billy M.) author.| Renne, John L., author. Title: Adaptation urbanism and
resilient communities: transforming streets to address climate change/Billy Fields and John …

Disasters create spatial, temporal and social gaps as people are displaced into temporary or
interim situations. During this time affected people often experience the dilemma of …

In the late twentieth century, disasters seemed like distant happenings in countries far away
from the prosperous West. But today they are 'coming home'with a vengeance. From global …