Overview
Presents a comprehensive framework and indicators that can be used to assess a city’s degree of resilience
Proposes the concept, framework and indicators of a resilient policy model (including some participatory approaches) based on surveys using bottom-up assessment tools
Introduces case studies of the presented and similar tools applied in Japanese and Asian cities
Discusses lessons learned from the cases studies, including the challenges and the effectiveness of the tools
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Perspectives
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Front Matter
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Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Resilient city
- Assessment tool
- Disaster management
- Energy system
- Global environmental change
- Participatory approach
- Social ecological system
- Urban planning
- OECD
- Covenant of mayors
- Policy transfer
- SDGs future city
- climate change
- Climate change management
- urban geography and urbanism
- urban geography and urbanism
About this book
This book presents a comprehensive framework and indicators that can be used to assess a city’s degree of resilience. Based on surveys using bottom-up assessment tools, it proposes the concept, framework and indicators of a resilient policy model (including some participatory approaches). It also presents case studies of this and similar tools applied to Japanese and Asian cities, the highlights including information not previously available in English. Today, the term “resilience” is prevalent in the context of sustainable societies. The IPCC AR5 published in 2014 again stressed the impact of climate change on natural disasters, while in March 2015 at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, the United Nations International Strategy of Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) published the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Action 2015-2030 , which serves as a guideline for local governments. Offering transdisciplinary perspectives from fields such as policy science, urban planning, environmental science, social psychology, management development and geography, this book discusses the lessons learned from Asian case studies, explaining the challenges and the effectiveness of the tools, and offering transdisciplinary insights for policymakers.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Professor
Faculty of Social Sciences
Hosei University
Tokyo, Japan
Kenshi BABA
Professor
Faculty of Environmental Studies
Tokyo City University
Kanagawa, Japan
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilient Policies in Asian Cities
Book Subtitle: Adaptation to Climate Change and Natural Disasters
Editors: Mitsuru Tanaka, Kenshi Baba
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8600-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-8598-8Published: 30 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-8600-8Published: 13 August 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 253
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Climate Change Management and Policy, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sustainable Development, Urbanism, Human Geography