Climate-Resilient Cities: Priorities for the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

This edited volume discusses the concept of resilient cities within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Written by an international panel of scholars and experts, the book presents theoretical approaches, identifies risk factors, and suggests policies for building resiliency in a region of the world undergoing rapid urbanization. Chapters cover a diverse range of topics, including innovative concepts and studies in resilient city design, the interaction of social, entrepreneurial, governmental, and ecological transformations in the GCC region, and international best practices for risk reduction. Coupling rigorous economic analysis and practical policy implications, this book will be useful for students and academics of finance, governance, energy and resource economics, and climate change, as well as policymakers, community leaders, and risk reduction professionals.

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

Front Matter Pages i-x
Advancing Cities’ Resilience: A Comprehensive Review and Mapping of Research Pages 1-15
Building Resilient Cities with Integrated Resiliency Analyses Pages 17-43
Resilient Systems
1. Front Matter Pages 45-45
2. Heat Resilience: A Matter of Both Adaptation and Mitigation for the GCC Pages 47-61
3. Resilient Urban Transport Systems: The Role of Transit-Oriented Development in the GCC Cities Pages 63-88
4. Water-Resilient Cities: GCC Strategies and Policy Recommendations Pages 89-102
5. Climate-Resilient Cities—Priorities for the GCC Countries Resilient Power Systems Pages 103-123
6. Proactive Distributed Renewable Energy Resources (DRER) for Powering Tomorrow Pages 125-145
7. Digital Resilience in Smart Cities: A Dynamic Capability Approach Pages 147-157
8. Weaving Resilience: The Enduring Threads of GCC Communities Pages 159-204
9. Fostering Social Cohesion in Multicultural Societies of the Gulf Cooperation Council Pages 205-217
10. Globalization, Climate Change, and Compound Health Risks in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the GCC Pages 219-234
11. Grey Carbon—A New Nature-Positive Carbon Removal Technology for the Built World Pages 235-254
Special Zones
1. Front Matter Pages 255-255
2. Resilience of Small Islands: Unveiling Nature-Based Solutions for Sustainable Futures Pages 257-280
3. Taking off and Navigating Disruptive and Climate Challenges for Building Resilience in Air Transport Infrastructure Pages 281-313
4. A Review Approach to Understanding the Current Status of Port Resilience: Lessons Learned for GCC Ports Pages 315-340
5. Riyadh’s Urban Greenwave: Fostering City Resilience Through Large-Scale Greening Pages 341-353
6. Resilience in Practice: The Identity-Based Resilience of the Diplomatic Quarter in Riyadh Pages 355-368

Anvita Arora

Executive Director- Transportation & Infrastructure Anvita is an architect and transport planner whose current areas of research at KAPSARC include smart cities, electric vehicles, and…

Anvita is an architect and transport planner whose current areas of research at KAPSARC include smart cities, electric vehicles, and freight mobility. Before joining the Center in February 2018, she was the managing director and CEO of Innovative Transport Solutions (iTrans), an incubator company of IIT Delhi, where she led over 40 applied research and planning projects for 10 years for clients ranging from city level and country level authorities to funding agencies including the UNEP, World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and DFID. Supporting cities to become sustainable, inclusive and climate resilient was the primary focus of the work. She was also the India Resident Representative for the Bicycle Partnership Program of the Interface for Cycling Expertise (I-CE), the Netherlands, for four years.

Anvita has been teaching transport planning in the Urban Design Department of the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi for the past 12 years and was visiting faculty at the TERI University, Delhi. She was also associated with the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Program (TRIPP) at IIT Delhi, a Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF) Centre of Excellence, for nearly 12 years.

Expertise

Low carbon transport
Energy efficient mobility systems
Climate resilient urban planning
Inclusive and equitable cities

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Fateh Belaïd

Principal Fellow- Climate and Sustainability Fateh was a full professor of economics at Lille Catholic University and director of the Smart & Sustainable Cities research…

Fateh was a full professor of economics at Lille Catholic University and director of the Smart & Sustainable Cities research unit. Fateh has also held various positions at the French Scientific and Technical Center for Building and led multiple collaborative projects for the French Ministry of Ecological Transition and the European Commission. He is an energy and environmental economist drawing from the fields of applied microeconomics, energy modeling, and econometrics.

He has published widely on household energy consumption, energy-saving behaviors, individual preference and investment in energy efficiency, energy poverty, renewables, and energy policy. He received a habilitation for supervising doctoral research from Orléans University, a Ph.D. in Economics, an M.S. in Applied Economics & Decision Theory from Littoral University, and an engineering degree in statistics.

His work has been published in journals including Ecological Economics, The Energy Journal, Energy Economics, Economic Surveys, Energy Policy, and Environmental Management

Expertise

Energy and Environmental Economics; Energy Efficiency; Energy Demand; Fuel Poverty; Energy Policy; Energy Saving Behaviors; Applied Econometrics; Smart and Sustainable Cities.

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