Chapter 9 Climate change adaptation and urban risk management
Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Issues and Challenges
ISBN: 978-0-85724-487-1, eISBN: 978-0-85724-488-8
Publication date: 31 December 2010
Abstract
In the scientific field of climate change adaptation (CCA), the focus on cities has grown steadily in recent years. Increasing population figures especially in developing countries, and overall in cities, demonstrate a key challenge for institutions, communities, economies, and the natural environment to find appropriate solutions to overcome this problem (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC], 2007). Rapid urbanization is just one of the key issues that cities have to deal with; another main challenge is how to manage the impacts from climate change like increasing numbers of natural hazards that are resulting in more frequent and intense disasters (EM-Dat, 2009; Munich Re Group, 2009).
Citation
Joerin, J. and Shaw, R. (2010), "Chapter 9 Climate change adaptation and urban risk management", Shaw, R., Pulhin, J.M. and Jacqueline Pereira, J. (Ed.) Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Issues and Challenges (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Vol. 4), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 195-215. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-7262(2010)0000004015
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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