Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities
eBook - PDF

Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities

  1. 308 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities

About this book

One of the emerging reasons for the current trend of increasing impacts of disasters is the unpredictability of natural hazard events coupled with the tendency of human settlements to move to vulnerable locations including coastal areas in search of economic gains. Urban areas are most affected due to concentration of habitat and resources. Whilst it is impossible to make resistant urban growth, resilience is becoming more widely accepted and urban systems must be resilient enough to cope with the climate related hazards. This book highlights the issues of resilience through regional, national, city and community-based studies. Contributions come from academia, city government networks, city managers, non-government organizations and international agencies like the World Bank and United Nations. Thus, the book reflects a unique aspect of multi-stakeholder perspective. It also highlights how to enhance actions at local levels, and how the plans can be implemented through multi-stakeholder collaboration. This is the first book to combine academic research and field practice on the urban risk reduction, especially focusing on the climate-related disasters in the Asian region.

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Yes, you can access Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities by Rajib Shaw,Anshu Sharma, Rajib Shaw in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Environmental Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of contributors
  6. List of Editors
  7. Brief introduction to the series
  8. Brief introduction to the volume
  9. Preface
  10. Chapter 1 Overview of urban development and associated risks
  11. Chapter 2 Understanding urban resilience
  12. Chapter 3 Mapping climate and disaster resilience in cities
  13. Chapter 4 Climate and disaster resilience mapping at national level
  14. Chapter 5 Climate and disaster resilience mapping in city clusters
  15. Chapter 6 Climate and disaster resilience mapping at microlevel of cities
  16. Chapter 7 Linking resilience planning to Hyogo framework for action in cities
  17. Chapter 8 From resilience mapping to action planning
  18. Chapter 9 From action planning to community-based adaptation
  19. Chapter 10 Capacity development and training: Blended learning program
  20. Chapter 11 Building Local Government Resilience through City-to-City Cooperation
  21. Chapter 12 Urban flood risk communication for cities
  22. Chapter 13 Roles of civil society in climate and disaster resilience of cities and local governments
  23. Chapter 14 Beyond resilience mapping