Megacities and the Coast: Risk, Resilience and Transformation - Couverture rigide

 
9780415815048: Megacities and the Coast: Risk, Resilience and Transformation
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ISBN 10 : 0415815045 ISBN 13 : 9780415815048
Editeur : Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Based on a major international study, this volume provides a synthesis of scientific knowledge on megacity urbanization on the coast, environmental impacts, risks and management choices, including a focus on adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management. It is the primary output of a major international scientific project sponsored by the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme, the Land-Ocean Interactions at the Coastal Zone programme of IHDP/IGBP, and others. It brings together the work of over 60 contributing authors and an international review board.

It presents the international policy and academic community with an unbiased and high quality assessment of the state-of-the art in areas of social-ecological systems interaction. One of its main messages is that while we know a great deal about megacities of more than ten million people and about urban processes, and about coasts and their physical and ecological processes (aquatic, physical and atmospheric), there is relatively little work that focusses primarily at points of intersection between large-scale urbanization and the coast. The book responds to this gap by providing the first global synthesis of megacity and large urban region urbanization on the coast. Its focus is on environmental and development challenges, climate change and disaster. It is interdisciplinary and brings together world recognised scientists (including many IPCC lead authors) on urban climate and atmosphere, disaster risk management, demography and coastal environments.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mark Pelling is Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at King's College London, UK.

Sophie Blackburn is a Research Associate in the Department of Geography at King's College London, UK.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415815045
ISBN 13 
9780415815048
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
264
Éditeur
Pelling Mark, Blackburn Sophie
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780415815123: Megacities and the Coast: Risk, Resilience and Transformation

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ISBN 10 :  0415815126 ISBN 13 :  9780415815123
Editeur : Routledge, 2013
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