Title Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor : Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World / Judy L. Baker, editor

Published Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 297 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps Series Urban development series Urban development series (Washington, D.C.) Contents Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Overview; Recommended Actions to Build Resilience of the Urban Poor; Chapter 1. Vulnerable Cities: Assessing Climate Change and Disaster Risk in Urban Centers of the Developing World; Introduction and Objective of the Study; Background, Analytical Framework, and Approach; Tables; 1.1 Analytical Framework for Assessing Risk; Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and Urban Areas: Assessing Hazard Risk; 1.2 Hazards Impacting the Urban Poor in Case Study Cities Summary Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable. Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level rise, flooding, and other hazards. Exposure to risk is exacerbated by overcrowded living conditions, lack of adequate infrastructure and services, unsafe housing, inadequate nutrition, and poor health. These conditions can turn a natural hazard or change in climate into a disaster, and resu Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Urban poor -- Developing countries Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Developing countries Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on -- Developing countries City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Developing countries Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Developing countries Urban health -- Developing countries Urban policy -- Developing countries City dwellers. Climatic changes. Emergency management. Risk management. Poverty. Urban Population Poverty Climate Change Disaster Planning Risk Management Developing Countries climate change. disaster planning. risk management. poverty. NATURE -- Natural Disasters. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief. Risk management Emergency management Climatic changes City dwellers City planning -- Environmental aspects Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on Climatic changes -- Social aspects Urban ecology (Sociology) Urban health Urban policy Urban poor Klimaänderung Katastrophenschutz Armut Stadtplanung Städtische Armut. Klimawandel. Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung. Katastrophe. Entwicklungsländer. Developing countries Entwicklungsländer Form Electronic book Author Baker, Judy L., 1960- World Bank. ISBN 9780821389607 0821389602 1280486600 9781280486609 9786613581839 6613581836

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