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  • 1 - Heat

  • Brian Stone, Jr, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Book:
    Radical Adaptation
    Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024, pp 14-51

  • Summary

    Explores how exterme heat impacts human health and presents built enviornment strategies to moderate extreme heat in cities.

  • 4 - Retreat

  • Brian Stone, Jr, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Book:
    Radical Adaptation
    Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024, pp 104-130

  • Summary

    Examines the present framework for rebuilding in the aftermath of climate disasters and presents a new framework for planned retreat in cities.

  • 3 - Water (Too Little)

  • Brian Stone, Jr, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Book:
    Radical Adaptation
    Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024, pp 81-103

  • Summary

    Explores how an increasing frequency and intensity of drought conditions is driving water scarcity in cities and presents built environment strategies for moderating drought conditions.

  • 2 - Water (Too Much)

  • Brian Stone, Jr, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Book:
    Radical Adaptation
    Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024, pp 52-80

  • Summary

    Explores how sea level rise and flooding are amplified by the design of cities, presents built environment strategies to manage flood risk, and considers issues of climate justice.

Radical Adaptation
  • Transforming Cities for a Climate Changed World
  • Brian Stone, Jr
  • Published online:
    04 January 2024
    Print publication:
    18 January 2024
  • This book considers the everyday conduits through which climate instability is revealing itself: the storm sewer drain on your street, the powerlines transporting your electricity, the mix of vegetation in your backyard or neighborhood park – these are the pathways through which climate change is most likely to impact your life. For many, these are the last places we expect it to. The first book to establish a framework for climate change adaptation, Stone's aim is to understand how climate change is altering our lives in the present period – this period of transition between the ancient, stable climate of our ancestors and the unfolding, no longer stable climate of our children – and how our cities might adapt to these changes. Stone's concern is with the risks posed by a new environmental regime for which our modes of living are ill-adapted, and with how these modes of living must be altered – radically altered – to persist in a climate changed world.

The City and the Coming Climate
  • Climate Change in the Places We Live
  • Brian Stone, Jr
  • Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    16 April 2012
  • This book is the first to explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities and the range of actions that individuals and governments can undertake to slow the pace of warming. A core thesis of the book is that the principal strategy currently advocated to mitigate climate change – the reduction of greenhouse gases – will not prove sufficient to measurably slow the rapid pace of warming in urban environments. Brian Stone explains the science of climate change in terms accessible to the non-scientist and with compelling anecdotes drawn from history and current events. The book is an ideal introduction to climate change and cities for students, policy makers and anyone who wishes to gain insight into an issue critical to the future of our cities and the people who live in them.

  • 1 - Keeling's Curve

  • Brian Stone, Jr, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Book:
    The City and the Coming Climate
    Published online:
    05 June 2012
    Print publication:
    16 April 2012, pp 16-45

  • Summary

    One of the earliest descriptions of the global greenhouse effect to appear in the popular media can be found in a 1953 edition of Popular Mechanics. The brief two-paragraph article published more than a half-century ago describes with surprising precision the fundamental workings of a scientific phenomenon that would soon become one of the most intensely studied in human history. The piece explains, “Earth's ground temperature is rising by about 1½ degrees a century as a result of carbon dioxide discharged from the burning of about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal and oil yearly.…This discharge augments a blanket of gas around the world which is raising the temperature in the same manner glass heats a greenhouse”[1]. The article goes on to predict a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and a rise in global temperatures of about 4% by 2080, which is not far off the mark from today's best estimates.

    That an article from the 1950s could describe with measurable accuracy the workings of a phenomenon that would not be formally acknowledged by the U.S. Academy of Sciences for another several decades is remarkable. Yet perhaps the article's central prescience is suggested by its placement within the magazine, appearing on page 119 of the August edition and trailing a piece titled, “Dutch Entertainer Rides Tiny Bike.” Viewed by the magazine's editors as less newsworthy than a shopworn circus act, the global greenhouse effect and its implications for human life are viewed today by many in a similar light. But this outcome results not from any degree of scientific uncertainty.

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