05049oam 2200553 450 991082315240332120190911112725.01-938134-36-2(OCoLC)878134916(MiFhGG)GVRL8RCI(EXLCZ)99371000000009258320131216h20132013 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrA study on globalizing cities theoretical frameworks and China's modes /Zhenhua Zhou, the Development Research Center of Shanghai Municipal People's Government, ChinaHackensack, NJ :World Century,[2013]�20131 online resource (xiv, 480 pages) illustrationsGale eBooksOriginally published in Chinese.1-938134-35-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Abstract; Contents; Chapter 1 Literature Review; 1.1. Formation and Development of the Global City Theory; 1.1.1. Traditional urban studies; 1.1.2. Early research and theoretical hypothesis formation of global city; 1.1.3. Development of the global city theory; 1.2. Main Viewpoints of the Global City Theory and Relevant Research; 1.2.1. The meaning and its interpretation of the global city; 1.2.2. The basic motivation of formation of the global city; 1.2.3. The functions and status of the global city; 1.2.4. Classification and system of the global city1.2.5. Network-based global city research1.2.6. Research on the global city-region; 1.3. Current State of Domestic Research; Chapter 2 Globalization, Informatization, and the Change of the World City System; 2.1. Relations Between the Wave of Globalization and the Cities Centered by Space; 2.1.1. The changes in the international division of labor in the process of globalization; 2.1.2. Changes of competitive relationships between state and its cities, enterprises; 2.2. Wave of Informatization and Cities "Space of Flows"2.2.1. Informatization is a major driving force of urbanization and urban development2.2.2. The space of urban flow; 2.3. Information City and the Change of the World City System; 2.3.1. Changes of the world urban system from globalization and informatization; 2.3.2. Theoretic defects in the mainstream global city study; 2.3.3. Reconstruction of the internal logic of formation and development of globalization, informatization, and global city; Chapter 3 Global City Networks and Their Nodes; 3.1. Global City Networks and Their Features; 3.2. Nodes of Global City Networks3.2.1. The connectivity of network nodes3.2.2. The diversity of network nodes; 3.2.3. The dynamic nature of network nodes; 3.2.4. Measurement of network nodes; 3.3. Globalizing Cities Based on Network Structure; 3.3.1. The globalizing city: the strata in the network structure; 3.3.2. Criticism of the traditional method of functionalism; 3.3.3. The nature of the globalizing city; Chapter 4 Regions of Global Cities: A New Spatial Structure; 4.1. Regions of Global Cities: Basic Spatial Unit of Modern Global Economy; 4.1.1. New changes in space; 4.1.2. The provisions of the global city region4.2. Interpretation of the Spatial Structure for Regions of Global Cities4.2.1. Re-examining the spatial structure of traditional urban theory; 4.2.2. The spatial logic of the global city region; 4.3. Regions of Global Cities and Globalizing Cities; 4.3.1. The extension of the global commodity chain to the spatial distribution of the developing countries; 4.3.2. The rise of globalized cities among the development of global city regions; Chapter 5 Rise of Global Cities: Prerequisite and Positioning Strategic Target; 5.1. Deeply Melting into the Process of Globalization5.1.1. Opening-up and independency on outgoing economyA Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development. With rich empirical data and an in-depth analysis, this book is of great theoretical and practical significance. Different from studies on global cities by renowned western scholars, this book extends its perspective to globalizing cities. It explores a unique development model for China's globalizing cities by adopting a creative angle of observation and analytUrban economicsChinaUrbanizationChinaGlobalizationChinaCities and townsChinaChinaEconomic conditionsUrban economicsUrbanizationGlobalizationCities and towns330.91732Zhou Zhenhua894641MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910823152403321A study on globalizing cities4014357UNINA08001nam 2200661Ia 450 991031193370332120250107002023.097817804012631780401264(CKB)3280000000003685(EBL)3119943(SSID)ssj0001079700(PQKBManifestationID)11611332(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001079700(PQKBWorkID)11086908(PQKB)11753001(MiAaPQ)EBC3119943(Au-PeEL)EBL3119943(CaPaEBR)ebr10733000(CaONFJC)MIL948735(OCoLC)843213090(ScCtBLL)e9d0b0ef-a813-4bbd-a4d2-7ff717db6fd2(Perlego)572037(oapen)doab27247(EXLCZ)99328000000000368520120731d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImpacts of climate change on rainfall extremes and urban drainage systems /Patrick Willems ... [et al.]1st ed.London IWA20121 online resource (238 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9781780401256 1780401256 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the IGUR -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1. Need for Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Urban Drainage -- 1.2. Overview of Climate Change Impact Assessment for Urban Drainage -- 1.3. Scope and Limitations -- 1.4. Book Outline -- Chapter 2: Modelling and analysis of rainfall extremes in a stationary context -- 2.1. Stochastic Rainfall Generation by Point Process Theory -- 2.2. Multifractal and Cascade Processes -- 2.3. Rainfall Disaggregation -- 2.4. Statistical Rainfall Extreme Value Analysis -- PDS/POT based analysis -- Extreme value distributions -- Distribution parameter estimation -- Regional analysis -- 2.5. IDF Relationships -- 2.6. Design Storms -- 2.7. Point Versus Areal Rainfall -- 2.8. Discussion -- Chapter 3: Variability, trends and non-stationarity in extreme rainfall and runoff -- 3.1. Trends in Rainfall Processes and Extremes -- Methods -- Results -- 3.2. Trends Versus Climate Oscillations -- 3.3. Trends in Urban Runoff: Changes due to Climate and Urbanization -- 3.4 Discussion -- Chapter 4: Climate models -- 4.1. Atmospheric Modelling -- Weather versus climate modelling -- Physical basis -- Boundary conditions -- Regional models -- 4.2. Climate Forcing Scenarios -- 4.3. GCM Simulations -- 4.4. Discussion -- Chapter 5: Dynamical approach to downscaling of rainfall -- 5.1. Dynamical Downscaling -- 5.2. Regional Climate Models (RCMs) -- RCMs in general -- Precipitation computation in RCMs -- Nesting in RCMs -- Local data for RCM simulations -- 5.3 RCM Simulations -- 5.4. Limited Area Models (LAMs) -- 5.5. Fine-Scale Rainfall Results in Case Studies -- Orography and rainfall -- Better results from dynamic downscaling -- Urban land use change and local rainfall -- 5.6. Discussion.Chapter 6: Evaluation of dynamically downscaled rainfall -- 6.1. Reliability of Climate Simulations by GCMs and RCMs -- 6.2. Reason of Differences between GCM/RCM Results and Observations -- 6.3. Uncertainty in Climate Impact Projections from Various GCMs/RCMs and Different Scenarios -- 6.4 Discussion -- Chapter 7: Statistical approach to downscaling of urban rainfall extremes -- 7.1. Motivation for Statistical Downscaling as Compared to Dynamical Downscaling -- 7.2. Delta Change and Climate Factors -- 7.3. Empirical Transfer Functions -- General empirical downscaling -- Separation of downscaling and bias correction steps -- Quantile mapping -- 7.4. Re-Sampling Methods or Weather Typing -- 7.5. Conditional Probability-based or Stochastic Modelling -- 7.6. Verification of Statistically Downscaled Climate Model Results -- 7.7. Discussion -- Chapter 8: Future changes in rainfall extremes -- 8.1. At-Site Changes in Rainfall Extremes -- 8.2. Regional Changes in Rainfall Extremes -- 8.3. Uncertainty in Rainfall Changes -- 8.4. Discussion -- Chapter 9: Future impacts on urban drainage -- 9.1 Generation of Rainfall Input for Urban Drainage Impact Calculation -- Event-based versus continuous simulation based approaches -- Accounting for impact uncertainties -- 9.2. Impacts on Urban Drainage Flows, Sewer Floods, Surcharges and Overflows -- Impacts of climate change only -- Impacts of climate change and/versus urbanization -- 9.3. Other Types of Sewer Impacts -- 9.4. Discussion -- Chapter 10: Climate change adaptation and flexible design -- 10.1. Scope and Purpose of Adaptation -- Choice of adaptation strategy -- Need for adaptation within the urban drainage sector -- 10.2. New Design Philosophies and Adaptation Options in Urban Drainage -- Decentralized local storage to cope with the increased rainfall variability.More efficient use of available storage capacities -- Limitations of retro-fitting cities with decentralized storage and/or larger sewer systems -- Urban flood forecasting and warning -- Water quantity-quality interaction -- Interaction with receiving waters -- Cross-disciplinary approach -- 10.3. Coping with Uncertainty: Flexible Designs -- 10.4. Adaptive Management and Active Learning -- 10.5. Discussion -- Chapter 11: Concluding remarks -- 11.1. Key Messages from this Book -- 11.2. Future Developments -- References -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Use of open source software R for statistical downscaling and rainfall extreme value analysis -- A.1. Introduction -- A.2. R Packages -- A.3. Extreme Value Analysis (POT) -- A.4. Non-stationary GPD Parameter Estimation (ismev) -- Appendix B: Use of Matlab for statistical downscaling and bias correction of RCM precipitation by quantile-quantile mapping -- B.1. Introduction -- B.2. Step-by-step Procedure -- B.3. Final Remarks -- Appendix C: Running Weather Research Forecast (WRF) Limited Area Atmospheric Model (LAM) on PC -- C.1. Learning Objectives -- C.2. Structure of this Tutorial -- C.3. Background -- The traditional challenge in using LAMs -- STRC Environmental Model System (EMS) -- Yet-another WRF tutorial? -- C.4. Installing WRF-live System on Your PC -- System requirements -- Install VMware player -- Install and start WRF-live system -- The terminal -- A look around your WRF-Live system -- C.5. Mumbai Case Study -- Background -- Setting up the domain -- Initial and boundary condition -- Run the simulation -- Post processing the results -- Plot rainfall -- Finishing off -- Getting files out -- C.6. Where to Go from Here -- Utilizing multiple processor cores -- Do we need VMware? -- Chimplot and others -- More information -- Index.Impacts of Climate Change on Rainfall Extremes and Urban Drainage Systems provides a state-of-the-art overview of existing methodologies and relevant results related to the assessment of the climate change impacts on urban rainfall extremes as well as on urban hydrology and hydraulics. This overview focuses mainly on several difficulties and limitations regarding the current methods and discusses various issues and challenges facing the research community in dealing with the climate change impact assessment and adaptation for urban drainage infrastructure design and managementRainfall anomaliesDrainageEnvironmental aspectsClimatic changesRainfall anomalies.DrainageEnvironmental aspects.Climatic changes.551.5773091732Willems Patrick1970-1781790MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910311933703321Impacts of climate change on rainfall extremes and urban drainage systems4306672UNINA