Overview
- Explores 4 case studies for resilient cities
- Discusses the continued efforts and current status of disaster management relating to water
- Examines how German and US approaches to resilience could be applied to the developing world
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies (PSCRS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- climate resilient cities
- climate change impacts
- resilience
- climate adaptation
- water resource planning
- urban policy
- flash flooding in urbanized areas
- resilient water systems
- climate resilience
- water-related extremes
- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
- 100 Resilient Cities
- urban planning
- California water system
- drought management
- coastal community resilience
- integrated water management
- water sensitive urban design (WSUD)
- urban drainage
- emergency response planning
- Environmental Geography
About this book
This book engages both practitioners and scientific audiences alike, particularly those interested in issues addressed bythe Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the recent Water Action Decade 2018-2028 and the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Kathrin Prenger-Berninghoff is a lecturer and scientific staff of Urban and Regional Planning at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. She is a recipient of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Research Fellowship from the European Union and completed her PhD in spatial planning at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building Resilience and Planning for Extreme Water-Related Events
Authors: Teresa Sprague, Kathrin Prenger-Berninghoff
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99744-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99743-8Published: 25 October 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99744-5Published: 11 October 2018
Series ISSN: 2523-8124
Series E-ISSN: 2523-8132
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 183
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment Studies, Environmental Geography, Climate Change Management and Policy, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management