Building resilient urban communities
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Bibliographic Information
Building resilient urban communities
(Community, environment and disaster risk management, v. 15)(Emerald books)
Emerald, 2014
Available at 8 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"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."
Table of Contents
Climate disaster risk in urban areas in Asia.
Introduction.
The concept of resilience to disasters.
Resilience in the context of urban disaster risk reduction in India.
Development and application of a climate disaster resilience index in Chennai and other Indian cities.
Perceptions of community leaders about enhancing the climate disaster resilience of communities in Chennai, India.
Perceptions of households about enhancing the climate disaster resilience of communities in Chennai, India.
Making Chennai resilient to climate-related disasters.
About the Authors.
Brief introduction of the series.
List of Figures.
Preface.
Building Resilient Urban Communities.
Abbreviations.
Community, environment and disaster risk Management.
Copyright page.
List of Tables.
Brief introduction of the volume.
Climate disaster risk in urban areas in Asia.
Introduction.
The concept of resilience to disasters.
Resilience in the context of urban disaster risk reduction in India.
Development and application of a climate disaster resilience index in Chennai and other Indian cities.
Perceptions of community leaders about enhancing the climate disaster resilience of communities in Chennai, India.
Perceptions of households about enhancing the climate disaster resilience of communities in Chennai, India.
Making Chennai resilient to climate-related disasters.
About the Authors.
Brief introduction of the series.
List of Figures.
Preface.
Building Resilient Urban Communities.
Abbreviations.
Community, environment and disaster risk Management.
Copyright page.
List of Tables.
Brief introduction of the volume.
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