Charting the green and climate-adaptive city

Green Attraction: Transnational Municipal Climate Networks and Green City Branding

In this article, we investigate the nexus of green city branding and municipal climate networks. In recent decades, a number of formal transnational municipal climate networks have emerged and their membership continues to increase. In parallel, city branding that is based on green policies, has gained importance. Based on quantitative and qualitative data, we assess how and to what extent Germ...

Adaptive Charting Techniques: Literature Review and Extensions

The continuous development of SPC is driven by challenges arising from practical applications across diverse industries. Among others, adaptive charts are becoming more and more popular due to their capability in tackling these challenges by learning unknown shifts and tracking time-varying patterns. This chapter reviews recent development of adaptive charts and classifies them into two categor...

Adaptive Non Linear PID Controller for Green House Climate Control

This paper presents the novel control strategy, for green house climate control. Till now, there are many control strategy that is work in India, to control green house environment but they are not adequate for good control performance. The controller used in the present work is conventional proportional, integral and derivative (PID) controllers with adaptive neural network. It provides good a...

Growing Green Roofs, City by City

Climate justice in the Australian City

Australian cities face several critical problems related to climate change and social/environmental equity. The emerging Australian scholarship on ‘climate justice’ helps to explain the inequitable impacts of climate change upon marginalised and disadvantaged communities (Fritz and Wiseman 2009; Moss 2009; Steele et al 2012). Vulnerable social groups will be hardest hit by climate change whethe...