Managing urbanization, climate change and disasters in South Asia

Managing urbanization, climate change and disasters in South Asia / Ravindra Kumar Srivastava.

This book offers essential insights into potential catastrophic events that might befall upon the emerging urban landscape in South Asia, and which are due to hazards, risks and vulnerabilities inherent in the regions geophysical location, as well as due to climate change and unplanned urbanization....

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Main Author: Srivastava, Ravindra Kumar
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, 2020.
Series:Disaster Studies and Management.
Subjects:
Urbanization > South Asia.
Climatic changes > South Asia.
Natural disasters > South Asia.
Environmental policy & protocols.
Sustainability.
Sociology.
Development economics & emerging economies.
Urban economics.
Science > Global Warming & Climate Change.
Business & Economics > Development > Sustainable Development.
Social Science > Sociology > Urban.
Business & Economics > Development > General.
Business & Economics > Urban & Regional.
Climatic changes
Natural disasters
Urbanization
South Asia
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • About the Author
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1 Risk Profiles of South Asia-Urbanization Context
  • 1.1 Overview of Hazard, Risk and Vulnerability (HRV) of Contextual Region
  • 1.1.1 Context of Geophysical Features
  • 1.1.2 Context of Climate Change
  • 1.1.3 Context of Urbanization
  • 1.2 Socio-economic Developments: New Challenges
  • 1.2.1 Challenges of Sustainable Development
  • 1.2.2 Climate Change and Urbanization in SAR
  • 1.2.3 Effects of Climate Change on Urbanization
  • 1.2.4 Increased Use of Energy in Urban Areas: One of the Causes for Climate Change
  • 1.3 Challenges in Building Urban Risk Resilience (URR)
  • 1.3.1 Urbanization Led Non-linear Causes of GHG Emission: An Analysis
  • 1.3.2 Recognizing and Mapping Risk and Hazard Sources
  • 1.3.3 Inconsistent and Incoherent Steps Towards Preventive Measures
  • 1.3.4 Action Space in Adaptation
  • 1.3.5 City Climate: Adaptation Plan
  • 1.3.6 Lack of Multi-level Institutional Coordination
  • 1.3.7 Urban Settlement Incongruent with Different National Missions on Sustainable Settlement Plans
  • 1.3.8 Inadequacies in Decentralization and Service Delivery Mechanism
  • 1.4 Analyzing Gap in Extant Management of DRR, CCA and Urban Governance
  • 1.4.1 Lack of R & D on Mainstreaming CCA and DRR in Development Planning
  • 1.4.2 Institutional Structures Governing DRR, CCA and Urbanization-Harmonizing Synergies
  • 1.4.3 Empowering Financial Strengths and Legal Safeguards of Urban Governing Structures: A New Resolve
  • 1.5 SAR to Re-calibrate Its Urbanization Agenda
  • References
  • 2 South Asia Region and Its Urban Agglomerates: The Risk Characterization
  • 2.1 General
  • 2.2 Demographic, Social and Economic Variation
  • 2.3 Disaster and MDGs
  • 2.4 Geophysical Features and Associated Risks
  • 2.4.1 Mountain Ranges in SAR
  • 2.4.2 Rivers
  • 2.4.3 Coastal Area
  • 2.4.4 Forests
  • 2.5 Urbanization-A New Mainstay of Changing Landscape
  • 2.5.1 Global Trend
  • 2.5.2 Trends of Urbanization in SAR
  • 2.5.3 Demographic Pattern in South Asian Mega Cities
  • 2.6 Urbanization Trend in South Asia
  • 2.6.1 Afghanistan
  • 2.6.2 Bangladesh
  • 2.6.3 Bhutan
  • 2.6.4 India
  • 2.6.5 Maldives
  • 2.6.6 Nepal
  • 2.6.7 Pakistan
  • 2.6.8 Sri Lanka
  • 2.7 Impacts of Geophysical Features and Climate Change on Urbanization
  • References
  • 3 Managing Disaster in South Asia
  • 3.1 General
  • 3.2 Disaster Management: Terminology, Concepts and Practices
  • 3.3 Key Terms of DRR
  • 3.3.1 Disaster
  • 3.3.2 Hazard
  • 3.3.3 Vulnerability
  • 3.3.4 Capacity
  • 3.3.5 Disaster Risk
  • 3.3.6 Disaster Management
  • 3.3.7 Risk Management
  • 3.3.8 DRR
  • 3.4 Concept of Disaster Resilience
  • 3.4.1 Resilience: A Prerequisite to DRR
  • 3.4.2 Initiative for Minimizing Disaster Risk and Enhancing Community Resilience
  • 3.5 Disaster Management: Key Stages

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