Homeowners and the Resilient City - Climate-Driven Natural Hazards and Private Land (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book provides an important overview of how climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or forest fires, continue to play a central role across the globe in the 21st century. Urban resilience has become an important term in response to climate change. Resilience describes the ability of a system to absorb shocks and depends on the vulnerability and recovery time of a system. A shock affects a system to the extent that it becomes vulnerable to the event. This book focus examines how private property-owners might implement such measures or improve their individual coping and adaptive capacity to respond to future events. The book looks at the existence of various planning, legal, financial incentives and psychological factors designed to encourage individuals to take an active role in natural hazard risk management and through the presentation of theoretical discussions and empirical cases shows how urban resilience can be achieved. In addition, the book guides the reader through different conceptual frameworks by showing how urban regions are trying to reach urban resilience on privately-owned land. Each chapter focuses on different cultural, socio-economic and political backgrounds to demonstrate how different institutional frameworks have an impact.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	2023
First published:	2022
Editors:	Thomas Thaler • Thomas Hartmann • Lenka Slavikova • Barbara Tempels
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	301
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-117762-0
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming
LSN:	3-03-117762-2
Barcode:	9783031177620

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