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Building Resilient Urban Communities (Hardcover)
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Building Resilient Urban Communities (Hardcover)
Series: Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
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"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."
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