Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities

by Rajib Shaw and Anshu Sharma

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857243195
• ISBN13: 9780857243195
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"