Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods : The Role of Policies and Governance - Cecilia Tortajada

Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods

The Role of Policies and Governance

By: Cecilia Tortajada (Editor), James Horne (Editor), Larry Harrington (Editor)

Paperback | 30 June 2020

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This book focuses on policies and governance on how to build the resilience of cities to droughts and floods in the short-, medium-, and long-term. There are discussions on how cities prepare for, cope with, learn from, manage, and recover from these extreme events. The chapters also consider aspects such as changing paradigms, policy responses under uncertainty, scenario development, institutional responses, adaptive forecasting, governance perspectives, infrastructure development, overall investments, and technological innovation. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction are discussed at length.





Most of the cities and regions studied are in Asia, however, cities from Oceania, Europe, Africa, and North America are also included. Analyses are not limited to cities but to the basins and regions from which urban populations obtain their resources, and on which their resilience depends.





This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.

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