Global warming and extreme weather events are becoming increasingly severe, and climate risks are particularly prominent. The current unsustainable development model of human society will exacerbate climate change and destroy ecosystems, and the impacts and risks caused by climate change will further threaten the already stressed human economic and natural ecosystems. These risks and impacts are becoming increasingly complex, compound, and consequential, and may interact with each other, further amplifying the resulting losses and damages.
Resilience is the ability of a social, economic, and environmental system to deal with catastrophic events, trends, or disturbances, and to maintain its essential functions, positioning, and structure while responding or reorganizing, and to maintain its ability to adapt, learn, and transform. The world urgently needs to take timely and strong actions to promote comprehensive and systematic transformation and adaptation, and to seek a path of climate - resilient development.
This book focuses on two major research directions on climate resilience. One is the enhancement of the climate resilience of urban ecosystems. The other is the application of artificial intelligence and big data. The first part starts with urban ecosystems by analyzing the performance and capacity of urban ecosystems under extreme weather and the increasingly severe climate change and providing measures and technical solutions related to urban climate resilience. The second part presents the integration of artificial intelligence into climate resilience and climate change prediction which enables people to better predict the changes in climate and choose better solutions to deal with and solve the problems. The intelligent systems also enable decision makers to better deliver early warning and adaptation functions. The potential readers of this book are engineers, scholars, and Ph.D in the field of environmental engineering and urban planning.
Bao-Jie HE is a Professor of Urban Climate and Sustainable Built Environment and the leader of the Centre for Climate-Resilient and Low-Carbon Cities at Chongqing University, China. Baojie is also the Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Queensland (Australia) and the Research Fellow at NERPS, Hiroshima University (Japan). Baojie He was a Postdoc Research Fellow, Research Associate, PhD researcher, at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Baojie is working on the technologies of Cool Cities and Communities and Net Zero Carbon Built Environment. Baojie has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in high-ranking journals. Baojie has been invited to act Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, and Conference Chair of several reputable international journals and conferences. Baojie received the Highly Cited Researcher Title (Clarivate) in 2022, 2023, and 2024, the Green Talents Award (Germany) in 2021, and the Top 2% Scientists by the Stanford University from 2020 onwards.
Ming MA is a senior researcher in Smart City Research Institute of Chongqing University (SCRIC), National Registered Architect and urban Planner. Prof. Ma has been dedicated to the practice and theoretical study in sustainable urban design and architecture. His interest is mainly on the built environment and public health, urban resilience and healthcare infrastructure. He has published more than fifteen journal papers and a book. He is also in charge of two national research projects.
Scientia Professor Deo PRASAD AO FTSE is an international authority and recognised as a national leader in the field of sustainable buildings and cities and among the leading advocates for sustainability in Australia. Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1991, he has been a highly influential, driving force for sustainable design in both academia and professional practise and in 2006 he received the Royal Australian Institute of Architect's National Education Award for contribution to `sustainability education, research and design'. In 2004, he received the NSW State Government's individual GreenGlobe Award for `leadership and commitment to the supply of renewable energy'. He also won the Federal Government's national award for `outstanding contribution to energy related research'. Deo has published in excess of 400 key publications on the sustainable built environment and is a regular keynote invited speaker at conferences globally.
Ali CHESHMEHZANGI is the World’s top 2% field leader, recognised by Stanford University. He is a Professor and Head of the School of Architecture, Design and Planning (ADP) at the University of Queensland, Australia. He is among the top 30 global scholars in urban sustainability. Prior to joining UQ, Ali held several strategic leadership and senior managerial roles, such as Vice-President for International Engagement and Global Partnership, Founding Director/Head of the Center for Innovation in Education and Research, Head of the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, and Founding Director of the Urban Innovation Lab. So far, Ali has published over 500 journal papers, articles, conference papers, book chapters, and reports. He also has 33 other academic books, three of which have received awards at the national, provincial, and municipal levels. Ali is also globally known for his extended work on urban sustainability research, and particular as the Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Urban Sustainability (US) book series.
