Healthcare Infrastructure, Resilience and Climate Change: Preparing for Extreme Weather Events

by Sumedha Dua, Abhijit Rastogi, Virendra Kumar Paul

Book Overview

This book highlights the vulnerability of healthcare buildings in the context of climate change-triggered extreme weather events (EWEs) and the case for mitigation. With a concise discussion on climate change and its consequences in the form of such events, a cost model and equations that register losses and help quantify them are then presented. The model can be used to estimate the significant potential loss that might occur during an EWE and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032488913
• ISBN13: 9781032488912
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"