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