Overview
- Interdisciplinary work that focuses on resilience building efforts to enhance the capacity of those who are most vulnerable
- Addresses the need for improved and fairer governance of climate change in rapidly urbanizing landscapes of Southeast Asia
- Highlights both the vulnerabilities of local residents to climate change as well as ways to enhance their resilience and hence, economic an social well-being
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
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About this book
This volume explores how climate change impacts interact with poverty and vulnerability to increase the risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia. It combines knowledge from both academic literature and action research to explore the creation of climate resilient urban governance that is both inclusive and equitable.
The book contains contributions from researchers in different cities in Southeast Asia involved with the major research project Building Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asian Cities (UCRSEA). The authors respond to three urgent questions:
- How does climate change interact with poverty and vulnerability to create risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia?
- What does knowledge, from both academic literature and action research, tell us about creating climate resilient urban governance that is both inclusive and equitable?
- How can we strengthen the agency of individuals, groups and institutions to improve economic, physical and social well-being in urban areas, particularly in response to climate change?
The book hopes to answer to current challenges posed by climate change. In the volume, the authors discuss how the agency of individuals, groups and institutions can be strengthened to improve economic, physical and social well-being in urban areas, particularly in response to climate change.
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Keywords
- Urban Climate Change Resilience
- Climate Resilient Urban Governance
- Southeast Asia
- Climate Vulnerability
- Anthropogenic Action
- Urban Government for Adaptation
- Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia
- UCRSEA
- Climatic Change Impact Cambodia
- Climatic Change Impact Myanmar
- Climatic Change Impact Thailand
- Climatic Change Impact Vietnam
- urban geography and urbanism
- Climate change management
- climate change
- climate change impacts
Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Understanding Vulnerability: Neighbourhoods, Cities, and Nations Beyond
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Creating Resilient Urban Governance: Facing Floods in Southeast Asia
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Improving Well-being: Forces of Migration, Ecotourism, and Urban Development
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Matthias Garschagen is the Head of Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Management and Adaptive Planning (VARMAP) at United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UN-EHS) and a Honorary Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. His main research focus is on urban vulnerability, social resilience and climate change adaptation, particularly in Asia. He serves as a Lead Author in the IPCC’s Special Report on Ocean and the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) and the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia
Editors: Amrita G. Daniere, Matthias Garschagen
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98968-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-98967-9Published: 14 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-98968-6Published: 01 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 228
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Climate Change Management and Policy, Climate Change, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Urban Ecology, Urban Studies/Sociology