Building Resilient Urban Communities.

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How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanization and climate change? This book throws light on the ongoing processes of rapid urban transformation in many cities in developing countries, with particular reference to cities such as Chennai in India. Due to increasing de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shaw, Rajib
Otros Autores: Joerin, Jonas, Krishnamurthy, Ramasamy R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bradford : Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014.
©2014
Colección:Community, environment and disaster risk management.
Temas:
Hazard mitigation > India.
Emergency management > India.
Cities and towns > India.
Hazard mitigation > Asia.
Emergency management > Asia.
Cities and towns > Asia.
Medical care.
Emergency management.
City dwellers.
Climatic changes.
Risk management.
Organization.
Health services administration.
Economics.
Disasters.
Population.
Delivery of Health Care
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Environment and Public Health
Ecological and Environmental Phenomena
Biological Phenomena
Phenomena and Processes
Disaster Planning
Urban Population
Climate Change
Risk Management
Organization and Administration
Population Characteristics
Health Services Administration
Economics
Disasters
Climatic Processes
Population
Financial Management
Environment
Patient Care Management
Patient Care Management > methods
Patient Care
Catastrophes > Réduction > Inde.
Villes > Inde.
Catastrophes > Réduction > Asie.
Villes > Asie.
Prestation de soins.
Gestion des situations d'urgence.
Citadins.
Climat > Changements.
Gestion du risque.
Organisation.
Services de santé > Administration.
Économie politique.
Catastrophes.
Soins médicaux.
disaster planning.
climate change.
risk management.
economics.
disasters.
population.
Risk management
Organization
Medical care
Health services administration
Climatic changes
City dwellers
Cities and towns
Emergency management
Hazard mitigation
Asia
India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Building Resilient Urban Communities; Copyright Page; Contents; Building Resilient Urban Communities; Chapter 1 Introduction; Climate disaster resilient urban communities; Case study locations; About the book; References; Chapter 2 Climate disaster risk in urban areas in Asia; Chapter 3 The concept of resilience to disasters; Chapter 4 Resilience in the context of urban disaster risk reduction in India; Disaster risk reduction and resilience in urban areas of India; Summary.
  • Chapter 5 Development and application of a Climate Disaster Resilience Index in Chennai and other Indian citiesClimate disaster resilience index/initiative
  • Methodology; Key findings from the resilience assessments; Chapter 6 Perceptions of community leaders about enhancing the climate disaster resilience of communities in Chennai, India; Chapter 7 Perceptions of households about enhancing the climate disaster resilience of communities in Chennai, India; Community disaster resilience; Chapter 8 Making Chennai resilient to climate-related disasters.

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