Urban resilience : planning for risk, crisis and uncertainty /: planning for risk, crisis and uncertainty. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jon Coaffee and Peter Lee.
• Authors: Coaffee, Jon; Lee, Peter, 1962-
• Contents: Part 1. Towards a framework for resilient planning and urban living. Why does urban resilience matter? -- The origins, evolution and critiques of resilience -- part 2. Processes of urban resilience. The resilience turn in planning policy and practice -- Urban resilience as adaptive or maladaptive? -- Assessing city reslience -- part 3. Urban resilience in practice. Adaptive resilience to climate change and extreme weather events -- Security-driven urban resilience -- Coping with large-scale disasters -- Preparting for 'slow-burn' shock events -- Anticipating the future: planning the resilient city of tomorrow.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 363.348; Geography; Emergency management; Cities and towns; Regional planning; Disasters & Disaster Relief; Cities and towns; Emergency management; Human Geography; Public Policy/City Planning & Urban Development; Human geography; Public administration; Pollution & threats to the environment; Political Science -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development; Regional & area planning
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137288844; 1137288841
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.