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Author:   Wanglin Yan ,  William Galloway ,  Rajib Shaw ,  Rajib Shaw
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9789819938339

ISBN 10:   9819938333
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   21 February 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - Understanding Change in Tokyo through Food, Energy, and Water Security.- Chapter 2 - Design-led Nexus Approach for Sustainable Urbanisation.- Chapter 3 - Climate Change in Global Cities.- Chapter 4  - Scaling the Food-Energy-Water Concept in Tokyo.- Chapter 5 - Land Use Planning and Conservation Policy in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.- Chapter 6 - Green Infrastructure in Tokyo.- Chapter 7 - Calculating the Demand for Food, Energy and Water in the Spatial Perspective.- Chapter 8 - Identifying Gaps between Food Supply and Demand under Compact City Policies.- Chapter 9 - Urban Agriculture as a Tool for Adapting Cities for the Future.- Chapter 10 - Assessing Urban Resource Consumption and Carbon Emissions from a Food-Energy-Water Nexus Perspective.- Chapter 11 - Impacts of the 2011 Disaster on Food-Energy-Water Material Flows and Resource Use Efficiency in Yokohama City.- Chapter 12 - The Potential of Hydrogen Energy and Innovative Diffusion Models in Japan.- Chapter 13  Hydrogen Refueling Station Siting and Development Planning in the Delivery Industry.- Chapter 14 - Visualizing Social Capital and Actor Networks for Sustainable Suburban Areas.- Chapter 15 - Policy interventions for resilience and adaptive cities.- Chapter 16 - Towards A New Resilience.

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Yan, Wanglin, Professor, Dr., Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University. Email: w_yan@keio.jp. Prof. Yan is a distinguished scholar in Environmental and Geo-informational Science for urban and regional planning by multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. He is currently the president of Geographic Information System Association, Japan. He is also serving the sub-regional node of Asia-Pacific Adaptation Network of UNEP and is devoted to climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Japan and northeast Asian countries. He has recently led the international consortium for the SUGI Nexus Program/M-NEX project and contributed to the co-creative design-led approach for urban food-energy-water management.   Galloway, Will, Assistant professor, Dr., Department of Architecture, Toronto Metropolitan University. Email: will.galloway@torontomu.ca. Will is an architect and urban planner, trained in Canada, the UK, and Japan. He taught at several universities in Japan, including Keio University and Waseda University, and currently teaches at Toronto Metropolitan University, Department of Architectural Science. In addition to research and teaching, he is the co-founder and director of the architecture office, frontoffice tokyo. His research focuses on resilience and adaptation, often making use of lessons learned from the examination of growth and change in cities.   Shaw, Rajib, Professor, Dr., Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University. Email: shaw@sfc.keio.ac.jp. Shaw is the Co-chair of the United Nations Asia-Pacific Science Technology Advisory Group (AP-STAG) and Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report. He is the editor of a book series on disaster risk reduction, published by Springer, and the Chief Editor of an academic journal Progress in Disaster Science by Elsevier. He is the recipient of Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Award (PBSA) of 2021 in Education Sector from the President of India. He also received United Nations Sasakawa Award for disaster risk reduction as a lifetime achievement and for his contribution to global disaster resilience initiatives. More of his work can be seen in: www.rajibshaw.org.  

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