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Swarming Landscapes [electronic resource] : The Art of Designing For Climate Adaptation / edited by Rob Roggema.

By: Roggema, Rob [editor.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Advances in Global Change Research: 48Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012Description: XVI, 257 p. 178 illus., 128 illus. in color. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789400743786.Subject(s): Geography | Regional planning | Architecture | Climatic changes | Humanities | Human Geography | Geography | Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning | Landscape Architecture | Climate Change | Interdisciplinary Studies | Human GeographyDDC classification: 710 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Difficulties to Design for Climate Adaptation -- 2. Turbulence and Uncertainty -- 3. Complexity Theory, Spatial Planning and Adaptation to Climate Change -- 4. Transition and Transformation -- 5. Networks as Driving Force for Climate Design -- 6. Swarm Planning Theory -- 7. Swarm Methodology -- 8. Swarming Landscapes -- 9. Cities as Organisms -- 10. The Best City -- Index.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: This book advocates a fresh approach to planning that anticipates, rather than reacts to, the changes in climate currently in process. Today’s spatial planning procedures rely on historical evidence instead of preparing for factors that by definition lie in the future, yet which are relatively uncontroversial: shortages of water, sea level rise and rises in average temperatures being but three examples. Arguing for more flexibility, the contributors view ‘complexity’ as the key to transforming the way we plan in order to better equip us to face uncertainties about our future environment. With chapters on complexity, network theory and transformation featuring prominently, contributors show how anticipatory planning protocols give us the capability to deal with sudden changes, in the same way that a swarm of bees adapts collectively to shifting environmental imperatives. The new approach is thus called ‘swarm planning’, and in addition to delineating this new theory, this volume provides many examples from the Netherlands and elsewhere that illustrate its practical application.
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Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Difficulties to Design for Climate Adaptation -- 2. Turbulence and Uncertainty -- 3. Complexity Theory, Spatial Planning and Adaptation to Climate Change -- 4. Transition and Transformation -- 5. Networks as Driving Force for Climate Design -- 6. Swarm Planning Theory -- 7. Swarm Methodology -- 8. Swarming Landscapes -- 9. Cities as Organisms -- 10. The Best City -- Index.

This book advocates a fresh approach to planning that anticipates, rather than reacts to, the changes in climate currently in process. Today’s spatial planning procedures rely on historical evidence instead of preparing for factors that by definition lie in the future, yet which are relatively uncontroversial: shortages of water, sea level rise and rises in average temperatures being but three examples. Arguing for more flexibility, the contributors view ‘complexity’ as the key to transforming the way we plan in order to better equip us to face uncertainties about our future environment. With chapters on complexity, network theory and transformation featuring prominently, contributors show how anticipatory planning protocols give us the capability to deal with sudden changes, in the same way that a swarm of bees adapts collectively to shifting environmental imperatives. The new approach is thus called ‘swarm planning’, and in addition to delineating this new theory, this volume provides many examples from the Netherlands and elsewhere that illustrate its practical application.

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