Climate Preservation in Urban Communities Case Studies

Coordinator: Clark II Woodrow W.

Language: English

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Climate Preservation in Urban Communities Case Studies delivers a firsthand, applied perspective on the challenges and solutions of creating urban communities that are adaptable and resilient to climate change. The book presents valuable insights into the real-life challenges and solutions of designing, planning and constructing urban sustainable communities, providing real world examples of innovative technologies that contribute to the creation of sustainable, healthy and livable cities. Examples of successes, failures and solutions are presented based on a cross disciplinary approach for infrastructural systems, including discussions of drinking water, wastewater, power systems, broadband, Wi-Fi, transportation and green buildings technologies.

1. Introduction: Smart Green Healthy Communities Are Now the Future 2. Agile Power Systems for Everyone: On-Site Distributed and Central Grid Systems 3. Integrated Cross-Disciplinary Studies: Circular Economics With Cases in Japan 4. Infrastructures for Green, Smart and Healthy Communities 5. Policies, Partnerships and Plans: Case of China 6. Interactionism in Everyday Community Life 7. Finance, Economics, and Sustainability 8. National Solutions at Local Levels: Case of Japan 9. Smart Green Healthy Communities: Cases of Science Parks and Microcities 10. Overview of Global Urban Cities 11. Conclusion: The Global Green Paradigm Shift Appendix: Smart Community and City Environmental Responsibility (C2ER) With Green Computing

Civil Engineers, Environmental Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, and Energy Engineers
Woodrow W. Clark, II, MA3 , PhD, is an internationally recognized scholar and expert in economics, renewable energy, sustainability, and sustainable communities. He was a contributing scientist to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNIPCC), which as an organization was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2007 along with Al Gore and his film “An Inconvenient Truth."
Clark is an internationally recognized, respected expert, author, lecturer, public speaker and consultant on global and local solutions to climate change. His core focus is on economics for smart green communities. During the 1990s, he was Manager of Strategic Planning for Technology Transfer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) with University of California and U.S. Department of Energy. He was one of the contributing scientists for United Nations Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC), awarded 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and Researcher for UN FCCC.

From 2000-2003, Clark was Advisor, Renewable Energy, Emerging Technologies & Finance to California Governor Gray Davis. After the “recall” in 2004, Clark founded, and manages Clark Strategic Partners (CSP), a global environmental, policy and economics renewable energy consulting firm. Also 2015-2018, Clark taught courses at University of International Relations (UIR) in Beijing and lectured on “Environment Economics” Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (April 2017). He was appointed (July 2016) to be a member of the Editorial Board for the Energy Review Journal (ERJ) in China. He was selected to be a member of the UN B20 Finance Task Force supported in 2016 by China. Clark teaches and lectures in the EU, especially Denmark and Italy.

Clark published 12 books by the end of 2017 and over 70 peer-reviewed articles, which reflect his concern for global sustainable green communities. He has authored and edited books are The Next Economics (Springer, 2012) and Global Sustainable Communities Handbo
  • Presents a cross-disciplinary approach for anticipating, mitigating and designing effective infrastructure solutions
  • Includes practical and project-proven best practices in applying climate preservation tools to maintain healthy cities
  • Covers green practices, from architecture, to construction, also including international codes, methods and legal frameworks