The Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures provides readers (practitioners, academics, researchers etc.) with expert interdisciplinary knowledge on how urban centres and regions in locations of varying climates, lifestyles, income levels, and stages of development are creating synergies and reducing trade-offs in the development of resilient, resource-efficient, environmentally friendly, liveable, socially equitable, integrated, and technology-enabled centres and regions.
In particular, The Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures provides readers with expert knowledge on interdisciplinary policies, best practices, lessons learnt, technologies in various stages of development, and case studies of urban centres and regions aiming to decouple economic growth from resource consumption, enhance resilience to climatic extremes, invest in low/zero carbon and smart technologies, lower emissions, reduce economic disparities, improve quality of life, and protect ecosystems and the services they provide for humans and nature.
- Brings together expert knowledge on urban and regional development
- Explores the growing movement towards viewing cities and regions as complex and sociotechnical
- 1,500,000 words over 300 entries provide comprehensive coverage
Editor-in-Chief: Robert C. Brears
Robert is the author of
Urban Water Security (Wiley), The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
(Palgrave Macmillan), Blue and Green Cities: The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources
(Palgrave Macmillan), Natural Resource Management and the Circular Economy
(Palgrave Macmillan), and Climate Resilient Water Resources Management
(Palgrave Macmillan). He is editor of the Climate Resilient Societies book series with Palgrave Macmillan and edits another of Palgrave’s major reference works, The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies.
Robert is a contributing author for the World Bank’s Water Blog, Asian Development Bank’s Blog, United Nations Industrial Development Organization’s Making It Magazine, and Green Growth Knowledge Platform. He has published
widely on water security, water resources management, and related issues, and has conducted field research around the world, including Antarctica. He is Founder of Mitidaption, Mark and Focus, and Our Future Water.
