Abstract The planned Special Report on Climate Change and Cities represents a key
opportunity to connect the IPCC assessment process to the topics of cities and global …

Flood risk in urban areas will increase massively under future urbanization and climate
change. Urban flood risk models have been increasingly applied to assess impacts of …

Urbanization entails extensive construction and substantial land use alterations, converting
natural areas into residential, commercial, mixed-use and industrial. These alterations …

Climate impacts increasingly unfold in interlinked systems of people, nature, and
infrastructure. The cascading consequences are revealing sometimes surprising …

Cities in developing countries are fast transforming from area-based expansion,
representing spatial growth, to volumetric expansion, representing a higher skyline. Existing …

Climate change has become a serious threat to human life. This study aims to reveal the
face of climate policies and the integration of urban adaptation into urban planning policies …

Rising urban temperatures significantly impact human health, with their effects varying
across socio-economic groups. With a focus on San Antonio, Texas, during its notably …

Rice is the staple food of more than half of the world's population, especially in Asia, where
rice provides more than 50% of the caloric supply for at least 520 million people, most of …

This chapter presents a prologue and background of the book and the reason why it focuses
on urban heat island effect (UHIE) mitigation in cities, especially amid energy and food …

Direct Air Capture (DAC) systems offer a promising solution for mitigating global carbon
emissions by directly removing ambient carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. While …