书目名称 | Homeowners and the Resilient City |
副标题 | Climate-Driven Natur |
编辑 | Thomas Thaler,Thomas Hartmann,Barbara Tempels |
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概述 | Discusses the implementation of risk reduction measures for individual homeowners and residents.Highlights several international cities as case studies for disaster risk reduction initiatives.Provides |
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描述 | This book provides an important overview of how climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or forest fires, continue to play a central role across the globe in the 21st century. Urban resilience has become an important term in response to climate change. Resilience describes the ability of a system to absorb shocks and depends on the vulnerability and recovery time of a system. A shock affects a system to the extent that it becomes vulnerable to the event. This book focus examines how private property-owners might implement such measures or improve their individual coping and adaptive capacity to respond to future events. The book looks at the existence of various planning, legal, financial incentives and psychological factors designed to encourage individuals to take an active role in natural hazard risk management and through the presentation of theoretical discussions and empirical cases shows how urban resilience can be achieved. Inaddition, the book guides the reader through different conceptual frameworks by showing how urban regions are trying to reach urban resilience on privately-owned land. Each chapter focuses on different cultura |
出版日期 | Book 2022 |
关键词 | climate vulnerability; homeowners; risk governance; natural hazards; Urban Resilience; property rights; Di |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17763-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-17765-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-17763-7 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |