Description
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.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Pacific Island Countries
Chapter 1: Urbanisation at risk: urban resilience in Pacific Island Countries
Chapter 2: Climate and disaster risks, challenges and opportunities for resilient Pacific towns and cities
Chapter 3: The humanitarian-development nexus in Pacific urban contexts: lessons from tropical cyclone Winston in Fiji
Chapter 4: Reflecting on a journey from climate change vulnerability assessments to the implementation of climate resilience actions: Honiara, Solomon Islands
Chapter 5: What does neighbourhood level urban resilience look like in Honiara?
Chapter 6: Using a systems approach to better understand urban resilience in Port Vila, Vanuatu
Chapter 7: ‘This is our garden now’: disasters and belonging in an urban Pacific
Chapter 8: Resilience in Pacific towns and cities: the social dimensions of change
Section 2: Asia (and beyond)
Chapter 9: Planning for climate change: adapting to a more sustainable urban future
Chapter 10: Community resilience through self-help housing adaptations: examples from Nepal and the Philippines
Chapter 11: The discourse and practice of resilience policy in Phnom Penh
Chapter 12: Are children the key to designing resilient cities after a disaster?
Chapter 13: Identifying resilience in recovery – complexity, collaboration and communication
