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Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia

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228 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am14.01.20191st ed. 2019
This volume explores how climate change impacts interact with poverty and vulnerability to increase the risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia. It combines knowledge from both academic literature and action research to explore the creation of climate resilient urban governance that is both inclusive and equitable.The book contains contributions from researchers in different cities in Southeast Asia involved with the major research project Building Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asian Cities (UCRSEA). The authors respond to three urgent questions:How does climate change interact with poverty and vulnerability to create risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia?What does knowledge, from both academic literature and action research, tell us about creating climate resilient urban governance that is both inclusive and equitable?How can we strengthen the agency of individuals, groups and institutions to improve economic, physical and social well-being in urban areas, particularly in response to climate change?The book hopes to answer to current challenges posed by climate change. In the volume, the authors discuss how the agency of individuals, groups and institutions can be strengthened to improve economic, physical and social well-being in urban areas, particularly in response to climate change.mehr
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KlappentextThis volume explores how climate change impacts interact with poverty and vulnerability to increase the risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia. It combines knowledge from both academic literature and action research to explore the creation of climate resilient urban governance that is both inclusive and equitable.The book contains contributions from researchers in different cities in Southeast Asia involved with the major research project Building Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asian Cities (UCRSEA). The authors respond to three urgent questions:How does climate change interact with poverty and vulnerability to create risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia?What does knowledge, from both academic literature and action research, tell us about creating climate resilient urban governance that is both inclusive and equitable?How can we strengthen the agency of individuals, groups and institutions to improve economic, physical and social well-being in urban areas, particularly in response to climate change?The book hopes to answer to current challenges posed by climate change. In the volume, the authors discuss how the agency of individuals, groups and institutions can be strengthened to improve economic, physical and social well-being in urban areas, particularly in response to climate change.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-319-98967-9
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum14.01.2019
Auflage1st ed. 2019
ReiheThe Urban Book Series
Seiten228 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht546 g
IllustrationenXII, 228 p. 28 illus., 15 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.45525058

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Why Focusing on Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asia Is Relevant and Urgent.- Part 1: Understanding Vulnerability: Neighbourhoods, Cities, and Nations Beyond.- Bridging Systems and People-centred Approaches in Urban Vulnerability Research: Insights for Resilience from Dawei, Myanmar.-â¯Water Access and Resilience to Climate-induced Droughts in the Thai Secondary City of Khon Kaen: Unequal and Unjust Vulnerability.- Migrating Toward Vulnerabilities: The Impacts of Structural Violence on Myanmar Migrants in Phuket, Thailand.mehr

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Autor

Amrita Daniere is Vice Principal, Academic and Dean of the University of Toronto at Mississauga. She teaches courses on the geography of Southeast Asia, environmental issues in the Global South, research design and research methods, community-based service learning and urban planning workshop Professor Daniere's research focuses on community-based approaches to environmental issues in cities of the Global South. She has published extensively on a planning in cities of Southeast Asian and Latin America and is currently the co-director of a multi-year partnership network project called the Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asia Project (funded by SSHRC and IDRC).
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