Climate Resilient Urban Areas: Governance, Design and Development in Coastal Delta Cities

Contents
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Chapter 1: The Five Pillars of Climate Resilience
	1.1 Background
		1.1.1 Climate Impacts in Urban Areas
		1.1.2 Decline in Biodiversity
		1.1.3 Social Vulnerability
		1.1.4 How Cities Respond
	1.2 The Five Pillars of Climate Resilience
		1.2.1 Threshold Capacity
		1.2.2 Coping Capacity
		1.2.3 Recovery Capacity
		1.2.4 Adaptive Capacity
		1.2.5 Transformative Capacity
	1.3 Scope of the Book
	References
Chapter 2: Integration of Water Management and Urban Design for Climate Resilient Cities
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 Urban Water Transitions (UWT) Framework
	2.3 Design and Planning Approaches
		2.3.1 Multi-layer Safety as a Central Concept
		2.3.2 Living with Water Principles
		2.3.3 Spatial Adaptation as a Planning Strategy
	2.4 Merging of Water Management and Urban Design
		2.4.1 Urban Analysis in Layers—City (Use) Typologies
		2.4.2 Water Systems Approach—Cities as Water Catchments
		2.4.3 The Water Assignment
		2.4.4 Green Infrastructure—Cities Providing Ecosystem Services
	2.5 Testing of WSUD Interventions in Climate Resilient Pathways
	2.6 Application in Practice: Case of Hoboken, USA
	2.7 Discussion and Conclusions
	References
Chapter 3: Climate Resilient Urban Retrofit at Street Level
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 Guidelines
	3.3 Standard Solutions
		3.3.1 Urban Typologies
		3.3.2 Ten Examples with Variants
		3.3.3 Costs and Benefits
		3.3.4 Results
	3.4 Existing Solutions Presented in Climate Adaptation Platforms
		3.4.1 Introduction to Climate Adaptation Platforms
		3.4.2 ClimateScan Platform
	3.5 Reflection on Five Pillars of Resilience
	3.6 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 4: Flood Resilience of Critical Buildings: Assessment Methods and Tools
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Research on Resilience of Buildings
	4.3 Methods for Assessment of Flood Resilience of Critical Buildings
		4.3.1 Method 1—The “Quick Scan”
		4.3.2 Selection and Evaluation Tools for Flood Proofing of Buildings
		4.3.3 The Individual Building Flood Damage Tool (IBT)
	4.4 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Recovery Capacity: To Build Back Better
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Guiding Principles
		5.2.1 Physical Concepts
		5.2.2 Interdisciplinary Planning Approach
	5.3 Cases
		5.3.1 Japan
			5.3.1.1	 Yuriage—Reconstruction Measures
			5.3.1.2	 Ötsuchi—Planning Process
			5.3.1.3	 Ötsuchi—Reconstruction Measures
		5.3.2 Bahamas
			5.3.2.1	 Reconstruction Measures
	5.4 Analysis
	5.5 Conclusions
	References
Chapter 6: Removing Challenges for Building Resilience with Support of the Circular Economy
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Can Tho Resilience Strategy, Potential for Circular Economy?
	6.3 Methodology
	6.4 Results
		6.4.1 Characterize: Amount and Type of Floating Debris
		6.4.2 Engage
		6.4.3 Diagnose
		6.4.4 Design
		6.4.5 Act
		6.4.6 Adapt
	6.5 Discussion
	6.6 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: Climate Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements: Towards a Transformative Upgrading Agenda
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Climate Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements
	7.3 In-Situ Settlement Upgrading
	7.4 Climate Resilience Capacities in Informal Settlement Upgrading
	7.5 Transformative Informal Capacities: Elements of a Holistic Approach to Urban Climate Resilience
	7.6 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: A Transformative Process for Urban Climate Resilience: The Case of Water as Leverage Resilient Cities Asia in Semarang, Indonesia
	8.1 Introduction
	8.2 Water as Leverage Resilient Cities Asia
		8.2.1 Phase 1: Understanding and Exploring Vulnerabilities and Opportunities
		8.2.2 Phase 2: Creating and Strengthening an Enabling Environment
		8.2.3 Phase 3: Brokering Financial Arrangements for Project Implementation
		8.2.4 Phase 4: Replication and Scaling-up
	8.3 Water as Leverage: Toward Transformative Adaptation?
		8.3.1 Reflection on the Co-creation of Program-Based Urban Climate Solutions
		8.3.2 Reflection on the Financing and Implementation of the Urban Climate Solutions
	8.4 Conclusion
	References
Chapter 9: Making the Transition: Transformative Governance Capacities for a Resilient Rotterdam
	9.1 Introduction
	9.2 Rotterdam as Water Laboratory
	9.3 Developing Transformative Governance
		9.3.1 Stewarding Capacity in Rotterdam
		9.3.2 Unlocking Capacity in Rotterdam
		9.3.3 Transformative Capacity
		9.3.4 Orchestrating Capacity
	9.4 Conclusions and Outlook
	References
Chapter 10: Future Outlook: Emerging Trends and Key Ingredients for the Transition to Resilient Delta Cities
	10.1 Reflection on the Five Capacities of Climate Resilience
	10.2 Overview of Key Transition Ingredients
	10.3 The Transition Outline: From Adaptation to Transformation
		10.3.1 Implementing Innovations at Appropriate Scale and Speed
		10.3.2 Planning and Collaboration
		10.3.3 Capacity Building at a Local Level
		10.3.4 From Sustainability to Regeneration
	10.4 Transformation Towards a New Societal Model
	10.5 Floating Communities as Testing Space for Transformative Resilience
	References
Index