Climate Resilient Cities
eBook - ePub

Climate Resilient Cities

A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters

  1. English
  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Climate Resilient Cities

A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters

About this book

'Climate Resilient Cities: A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters' provides city administrators with exactly what they need to know about the complex and compelling challenges of climate change. The book helps local governments create training, capacity building, and capital investment programs for building sustainable, resilient communities. A step-by-step self-assessment challenges policymakers to think about the resources needed to combat natural disasters through an innovative "hot spot" risk and vulnerability identifi cation tool. This primer is unique from other resources in its treatment of climate change using a dual-track approach that integrates both mitigation (lowering contributions to greenhouse gases) and adaptation (preparing for impacts of climate change) with disaster risk management. The book is relevant both to cities that are just beginning to think about climate change as well as those that already have well established policies, institutions, and strategies in place. By providing a range of city-level examples of sound practices around the world, the book demonstrates that there are many practical actions that cities can take to build resilience to climate change and natural disasters.

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Yes, you can access Climate Resilient Cities by Neeraj Prasad,Federica Ranghieri,Fatima Shah,Zoe Trohanis,Earl Kessler,Ravi Sinha in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Global Development Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Executive Summary
  7. About the Primer
  8. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  9. SECTION 1 Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management
  10. SECTION 2 Explaining Climate Change Impacts and Disaster Risk Management
  11. SECTION 3 Assessment Exercise: Discovery of a “Hot Spot”
  12. SECTION 4 Information Exercise: Creating a City Information Base
  13. SECTION 5 Sound Practice Examples of Adaptation and Mitigation
  14. SECTION 6 Conclusions
  15. Annex A/ Worldwide Programs and Organizations on Climate Change and Hazards
  16. Back Cover