Title & Author:

Reconstructing the future : cities as carbon sinks / Bauhaus Earth, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Rocio Armillas TIseyra (eds).

Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser ; Potsdam, Germany : Bauhaus Earth, [2023]
©2023

Description:

248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, portraits ; 23 cm

Notes:
"This book emerges from the Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet conference, held at Casina Pio IV,Vatican City, June 9-10, 2022."-- Preface.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Bioeconomy: toward sustainable living and bio-sensitive cities / Joachim von Braun -- Saving the world by construction / Hans Joachim Schellnhuber -- The new European Bauhaus vision / Ursula von der Leyen -- Critical appraisal of wood as building material / Andreja Kutnar -- Rural is global / Xu Tiantian -- Indigenous planning in Amazonia / Ana María Durán Calisto -- Wetland: a future vernacular / Wael Al Awar -- Sustainable digitization and data democracy for urban transformation / Francesca Bria -- How to build equity / Edgar Pieterse -- Life, growth, and death: from organisms and cities to societies / Geoffrey West -- Regulations for the future / Klaus Mindrup -- 50 years since the limits to growth: learning to live within limits / Sandrine Dixson-Declève -- Toward a circular bioeconomy / Elspeth MacRae -- Paradise found: from mining to gardening / Andrea Gebhard -- Sustainable forest management / Marc Palahí [and others] -- Utopia or oblivion / Carlo Ratti - Roof over our heads: examining adaptation for those living informally / Sheela Patel -- Emergency architecture / Shigeru Ban -- Built-environment education in reconstructing Ukraine / Olena Vozniak.

Summary:

Bauhaus Earth and Pontifical Academy of Sciences conference, June 2022 The built environment is a critical factor in the climate equation. Approximately 40 percent of global emissions derive from the construction, operation, and demolition of human settlements. The 21st century must be the century of re-entanglement, where quintessential functions (housing, work, culture, recreation, etc.) are reintegrated within urban spaces; where socioeconomic and ecological systems form a mutually supportive network of networks; and where past, present, and future are perceived as interwoven waves in the river of time. Fortunately, opportunities exist to transform the built environment from a carbon source to a carbon sink through, e.g. timber construction high-rise buildings, circular bioeconomy methods, AI-assisted design, smart recycling technology, multifunctional land use, integrated regional resource management, and community-based urban development, to name just a few. This volume compiles the papers presented by world-renowned scientists, architects, spatial planners, activists, and policy makers at the Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet conference, held at the Vatican in June 2022. First publication of the Bauhaus Earth think tank Ideas to transform the anthropocene Contributions by Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Ursula von der Leyen, Edgar Pieterse, Francesca Bria, Xu Tiantian, Shigeru Ban, Sheela Patel, Ana María Durán Calisto, and many others We look forward to the re-entanglement of our cities with the ingenuity of nature's systems, and to forging closer alliances across Built by Nature, Bauhaus Earth, and all our partners in this endeavor. Donald Brenninkmeijer, Chair Built by Nature, Chair Laudes Foundation Investment Committee Leslie Johnston, CEO, Laudes Foundation, James Drinkwater, Head of Built Environment, Laudes Foundation.

ISBN:

3035626979 paperback
9783035626971 paperback

Subject:

Casino di Pio IV (Vatican City), host institution.
City planning Environmental aspects Congresses.
Carbon dioxide mitigation Congresses.
Gaz carbonique Réduction Congrès.
City planning Environmental aspects.

Form/genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Schellnhuber, Hans-Joachim, editor.
Armillas Tiseyra, Rocío, editor.
Bauhaus Earth, editor.
Reconstructing the Future for People and Planet (Conference) (2022 : Vatican City),

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318533
Call No.: 318533
Copy: 1
Status: Available