Overview
- Offers practical suggestions to enhance local resilience as well as examples of successful adaptation strategies
- Provides unique insights from local governments, public institutions, researchers, and NGOs on key concepts in the field of climate adaptation
- Presents the results of the second global forum on cities and adaptation to climate change, reflecting the most up-to-date research
Part of the book series: Local Sustainability (LOCAL, volume 2)
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Table of contents (45 papers)
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Introduction
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Urban risk and assessing vulnerability at the local level
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Toward the Resilient City
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilient Cities 2
Book Subtitle: Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011
Editors: Konrad Otto-Zimmermann
Series Title: Local Sustainability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4222-2Published: 05 May 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9776-5Published: 11 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4223-9Published: 04 May 2012
Series ISSN: 2211-2782
Series E-ISSN: 2211-2790
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: L, 438
Topics: Climate Change, Urbanism, Sustainable Development, Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
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