Urban resilience to droughts and floods : the role of policies and governance /: the role of policies and governance. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Cecilia Tortajada, James Horne, Larry Wallace Harrington.
• Editors: Tortajada, Cecilia; Horne, James; Harrington, Larry Wallace
• Contents: Introduction Cecilia Tortajada 1. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals: improving water services in cities affected by extreme weather events James Horne, Cecilia Tortajada, and Larry Harrington 2. Using water management infrastructure to address both flood risk and the urban heat island Daniel R. Richards and Peter J. Edwards 3. Antifragility and the development of urban water infrastructure Filip Babovic, Vladan Babovic, and Ana Mijic 4. The impact of weather extremes on urban resilience to hydro-climate hazards: a Singapore case study Winston T. L. Chow 5. Environmental resilience and intergovernmental collaboration in the Pearl River Delta Kris Hartley 6. Exposure and resilience of China’s cities to floods and droughts: a double-edged sword Jialiang Cai, Matti Kummu, Venla Niva, Joseph H. A. Guillaume, and Olli Varis 7. The political economy of flood management reform in China Scott Moore 8. Governance of the Sponge City Programme in China with Wuhan as a case study Liping Dai, Helena F. M. W. van Rijswick, Peter P. J. Driessen, and Andrea M. Keessen 9. Towards adaptive governance for urban drought resilience: the case of Da Nang, Vietnam Tien L. T. Du, Duong D. Bui, Joost Buurman, and Xuan T. Quach 10. Policy narratives help maintain institutional traps in the governance of floods in Thailand Louis Lebel and Phimphakan Lebel 11. Resilience in major Australian cities: assessing capacity and preparedness to respond to extreme weather events James Horne 12. Rainproof cities in the Netherlands: approaches in Dutch water governance to climate-adaptive urban planning Liping Dai, Rebecca Wörner, and Helena F. M. W. van Rijswick 13. Devolving water governance in the Kenyan Arid Lands: from top-down drought and flood emergency response to locally driven water resource development planning Caroline King-Okumu, Bashir Jillo, John Kinyanjui, and Ibrahim Jarso
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.3493091732; Flood damage prevention; Droughts -- Risk assessment; Flood damage prevention -- Government policy; Droughts -- Government policy; Emergency management; Sustainable development; Water resources development
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429683541
• Related ISBNs: 9780429683558; 9780429683534; 9780429400728
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