Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales

<p><em>Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales</em> provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This edited volume brings together practitioners and researchers to discuss climate-related resilience from the building to the city scale. This book highlights North American cases that deal with issues such as climate projections public health adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations and design interventions for floodplains making the content applicable to many locations around the world. The contributors in this book discuss topics ranging from how built environment professionals respond to a changing climate to how the building stock may need to adapt to climate change to how resilience is currently being addressed in the design construction and operations communities. The purpose of this book is to provide a better understanding of climate change impacts vulnerability and resilience across scales of the built environment. Architects urban designers planners landscape architects and engineers will find this a useful resource for adapting buildings and cities to a changing climate.</p>