Building Resilient Urban Communities
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Building Resilient Urban Communities

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Building Resilient Urban Communities

About this book

"How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanisation and climate change? This book throws light on the ongoing processes of rapid urban transformation in many cities in developing countries, with particular reference to cities such as Chennai in India. Due to increasing demands on infrastructures and urban services, cities in developing countries are often pushed to the edge of collapse even when not in times of disaster. While such cities try to implement measures to safeguard the well-being of their citizens, looming impacts of climate change such as increasingly frequent and intense natural hazards pose new and additional challenges to their urban communities. This book connects critical issues relating to the general functioning of cities with climate-related disasters with the concept of resilience. Furthermore, this research takes a pro-solution stance, and demonstrates that individuals can form collective power to deliver added value before, during and after a disaster. The concept of resilience is applied to determine whether an urban community would be affected or damaged during a climate-related disaster, and to what extent."

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Yes, you can access Building Resilient Urban Communities by Jonas Joerin, Rajib Shaw, R. R. Krishnamurthy, Jonas Joerin,Rajib Shaw,R. R. Krishnamurthy in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Environmental Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Building Resilient Urban Communities
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of tables
  6. List of figures
  7. Abbreviations
  8. About the Authors
  9. Brief introduction of the series
  10. Brief introduction of the volume
  11. Preface
  12. Chapter 1 Introduction
  13. Chapter 2 Climate disaster risk in urban areas in Asia
  14. Chapter 3 The concept of resilience to disasters
  15. Chapter 4 Resilience in the context of urban disaster risk reduction in India
  16. Chapter 5 Development and application of a Climate Disaster Resilience Index in Chennai and other Indian cities
  17. Chapter 6 Perceptions of community leaders about enhancing the climate disaster resilience of communities in Chennai, India
  18. Chapter 7 Perceptions of households about enhancing the climate disaster resilience of communities in Chennai, India
  19. Chapter 8 Making Chennai resilient to climate-related disasters