Add to ORKGClimate and Disaster Resilience in Cities / Rajib Shaw and Anshu Sharma, eds. Emerald, March 2011, 304 p., ISBN: 9780857243195 (series Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management) http://books.emeraldinsight.com Synopsis (© Sarah Baxter) : 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 sea..
Natural hazards and climate change is increasingly acknowledged as one of important global challenge...
As threats from climate change related hazards increase in cities around the world, communities are ...
Rapidly urbanising coastal locations represent prototypes of future cities. While these "sea change"...
The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding ...
The effects of climate-related disasters are often exacerbated in cities due to interactions with ur...
Global climate change is one of the most critical issues of our time, and its ramifications are far ...
The nature of urban risk and disasters is changing. For the first time in human history, more people...
As remarked in the presentation of the special issue of the A|Z Journal - Cities at risk - the incre...
Dealing with climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or fo...
Flood resilience can be defined by more than 70 different ways, which can vary between two contrasts...
Resilience is widely seen as a desirable system property in environmental management. This paper exp...
Resilience is widely seen as a desirable system property in environmental management. This paper exp...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Asia's coastal megacities are...
Resilience is an issue of increasing importance to city managers and policymakers. The idea first em...
Climate change is not just about modeling and understanding hazards or weather. Societal resilience ...
Natural hazards and climate change is increasingly acknowledged as one of important global challenge...
As threats from climate change related hazards increase in cities around the world, communities are ...
Rapidly urbanising coastal locations represent prototypes of future cities. While these "sea change"...
The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding ...
The effects of climate-related disasters are often exacerbated in cities due to interactions with ur...
Global climate change is one of the most critical issues of our time, and its ramifications are far ...
The nature of urban risk and disasters is changing. For the first time in human history, more people...
As remarked in the presentation of the special issue of the A|Z Journal - Cities at risk - the incre...
Dealing with climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or fo...
Flood resilience can be defined by more than 70 different ways, which can vary between two contrasts...
Resilience is widely seen as a desirable system property in environmental management. This paper exp...
Resilience is widely seen as a desirable system property in environmental management. This paper exp...
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Asia's coastal megacities are...
Resilience is an issue of increasing importance to city managers and policymakers. The idea first em...
Climate change is not just about modeling and understanding hazards or weather. Societal resilience ...
Natural hazards and climate change is increasingly acknowledged as one of important global challenge...
As threats from climate change related hazards increase in cities around the world, communities are ...
Rapidly urbanising coastal locations represent prototypes of future cities. While these "sea change"...