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Urbanisation at risk in the Pacific and Asia : disasters, climate change and resilience in the built environment / Edited by David Sanderson and Laura Bruce.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Routledge , 2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 231 pages 24cmISBN:
  • 9780367258450
  • 9780367258474
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Urbanisation at risk in the pacific and asiaDDC classification:
  • 307.76095 23 U722
Summary: "This book presents practical approaches for tackling the threats from climate change and disasters to urban growth in Pacific island countries and Asian nations. With chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners, Urbanisation at risk presents research and case studies from island countries across the Pacific, Cambodia, Nepal, and the Philippines. The book explores and presents the theory, policy, and practice of how governments, civil society, aid organisations, and people themselves prepare for, withstand and recover better from urban disasters including windstorms, floods, earthquakes and fires, and the effects of climate change. This book is written for urban policy makers, researchers, humanitarian aid and development workers, and anyone interested in urbanisation, participatory approaches, disasters, resilience, and climate change adaptation"--
List(s) this item appears in: Social Science & humanities
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Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Reference Stacks 307.76095 U722 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2020 01 Not For Loan 028010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book presents practical approaches for tackling the threats from climate change and disasters to urban growth in Pacific island countries and Asian nations. With chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners, Urbanisation at risk presents research and case studies from island countries across the Pacific, Cambodia, Nepal, and the Philippines. The book explores and presents the theory, policy, and practice of how governments, civil society, aid organisations, and people themselves prepare for, withstand and recover better from urban disasters including windstorms, floods, earthquakes and fires, and the effects of climate change. This book is written for urban policy makers, researchers, humanitarian aid and development workers, and anyone interested in urbanisation, participatory approaches, disasters, resilience, and climate change adaptation"--

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