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Urban Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Urban Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences
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This book focuses on understanding urban vulnerability and risk
mitigation, advancing good health and wellbeing, and analysing
resilience measures for various Asian cities. Today, cities are the
dominant human habitat, where a large number of environmental,
social, cultural and economic factors have impacts on human health
and wellbeing. Cities consist of complex, dynamic,
socio-ecological, and technological systems that serve multiple
functions in human health and wellbeing. Currently half of Asia's
population is urban, and that figure is expected to rise to 66
percent by 2050. Since urban areas are often most vulnerable to
hazards, the people living in them need good health infrastructure
facilities and technological support at various scales. As such,
the need of the hour is to enhance the adaptive capacity,
strengthen resilience, reduce vulnerability, and take risk
mitigation measures in urban areas, which requires a systematic
approach based on science-policy interface that is transformative,
trans-disciplinary and integrative for a sustainable urban future.
Global sustainable development goals are closely tied to urban
human health and wellbeing: (1) the third of the United Nations'
Sustainable Development Goals is to "Ensure healthy lives and
promote wellbeing for all at all ages" and (2) the eleventh is to
"Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable". By
addressing these goals, this book offers a highly useful resource
for anyone concerned with healthy and resilient cities in Asia,
today and tomorrow.
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