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Urbanisation at Risk the Pacific and Asia: Disasters, Climate Change Resilience Built Environment
Urbanisation at Risk the Pacific and Asia: Disasters, Climate Change Resilience Built Environment
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Size: Hardcover
With chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners,
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.