Product details:
| ISBN13: | 9783031503641 |
| ISBN10: | 3031503643 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 426 pages |
| Size: | 235x155 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 16 Illustrations, black & white; 200 Illustrations, color |
| 674 |
Category:
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Climate Change Adaptation
Adapting to Flood Risk
Series:
Cities and Nature;
Edition number: 2024
Publisher: Springer
Date of Publication: 28 September 2024
Number of Volumes: 1 pieces, Book
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Short description:
Through its focus on flood disasters, this book provides an integrated approach to climate adaptation, green growth and mitigation that can unlock climate action and increase community resilience across the global south.
This book provides important new and actionable tools for diverse cities and communities facing climate disasters to engage in risk assessment and green recovery. The on the ground perspective from case studies across the global south ensures a culturally inclusive perspective too often missing from the current dialogue.
This book offers integrated, actionable and culturally inclusive risk management and green recovery conceptual frameworks and methodologies based on case studies from communities across the global south.
Through its focus on flood disasters, this book provides an integrated approach to climate adaptation, green growth and mitigation that can unlock climate action and increase community resilience across the global south.
This book is intended for university students, professionals, local governments, and policy decision makers.
Long description:
This book provides important new and actionable tools for diverse cities and communities facing climate disasters to engage in risk assessment and green recovery. The on the ground perspective from case studies across the global south ensures a culturally inclusive perspective too often missing from the current dialogue.
Through its focus on flood disasters, this book provides an integrated approach to climate adaptation, green growth and mitigation that can unlock climate action and increase community resilience across the global south.
This book offers integrated, actionable and culturally inclusive risk management and green recovery conceptual frameworks and methodologies based on case studies from communities across the global south.
Through its focus on flood disasters, this book provides an integrated approach to climate adaptation, green growth and mitigation that can unlock climate action and increase community resilience across the global south.
This book is intended for university students, professionals, local governments, and policy decision makers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction.- Part I: Climate Change and Flood Disaster: Current Global Context and Theory of Climate Disaster Risk Assessment and Green Recovery.- Chapter 1. International Movements towards Climate Disaster and Green Recovery: Sustainable Development Goals, The Paris Climate Agreement, Green Deal, COVID-19 Disaster, and the City (Kwi-Gon Kim, Catherine Atkin).- Chapter 2. Concept and Definition of Disasters, Issues and Emerging Solutions (Kwi-Gon Kim).- Part II: Flood Risk Assessment and Green Recovery Framework and Methods.- Chapter 3. Nine Step Conceptual Framework for Climate Disaster Risk Assessment and Green Recovery Planning and Innovation (Kwi-Gon Kim).- Chapter 4. Methods and Technologies for Developing the Indicators of Climate Disaster Risk Assessment and Green Recovery Planning: The Standard Methods and Techniques for a Whole System (Kwi-Gon Kim, Catherine Atkin).- Part III: Cross-cutting and Emerging Topics.- Chapter 5. Untact Space Planning for a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic as a Compound Flood Risk (Kwi-Gon Kim).- Chapter 6. Overview and Exploration of Nature-based Flooding Solutions (Kwi-Gon Kim).- Chapter 7. Using green recovery principles to integrate City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) with flood risk management (Rachel Carbone).- Part IV: Food Risk Assessment and Green Recovery: Twelve Case Studies from Across the Globe.- Chapter 8. Overview of Case Studies: Common Elements and Framework for Analysis (Kwi-Gon Kim, Catherine Atkin).- Chapter 9. Flash Floods ? Cambodia and Afghanistan.- Chapter 10. Urban floods ? Uganda, Tanzania and Columbia.- Chapter 11. Riverine Floods ? DR Congo, Ecuador, and East timor.- Chapter 12. Rural Floods ? Loa, Tanzania, and Cambodia.- Part V: The Synthesis of Case Studies.- Chapter 13. Comparative Assessment of Case Studies - Policy-related Recommendations, Strategies, Actions, Tools and Technologies for Climate Change Adaptation (Catherine Atkin, Kwi-Gon Kim).- Chapter 14. Case Study Comparison with Adaptation in SelectMore Advanced Countries (Kwi-Gon Kim, Catherine Atkin).- Part VI: Adaptation and Mitigation Framework Integration and Innovation: Future Prospects.- Chapter 15: Co-benefits of Combining Adaptation and Mitigation Frameworks: A Cross-Cutting Approach (Kwi-Gon Kim, Catherine Atkin).- Chapter 16. Digitalization of Flood-Related Climate Innovations in Cities: A Practical Prototype to Address Data Requirements (Kwi-Gon Kim, Catherine Atkin).- Chapter 17. New Frontiers: Application of Blockchain (BC)/Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) to Drive Flood Reduction Solution Markets and Financing (Si Chen).- Chapter 18. Towards Disaster Free Cities and Communities: Climate Smart, Safe and Resilient Localities (Kwi-Gon Kim, Catherine Atkin, all authors).
