Urban Risk Reduction and Adaptation

Climate change and disasters are among today s most
pressing issues. The damage caused by the worldwide
increase in disasters is staggering, with the urban
poor being most at risk. Disasters make their already
precarious living conditions worse, creating a
vicious circle of poverty. More and more attention
has thus been given to the need to address changing
climatic conditions and disaster risk through
development work. Despite related efforts, urban
development actors still struggle to effectively
reduce risk in their daily work.
This book seeks to demonstrate how disaster risk
management and adaptation could be better integrated
into urban development planning (i.e. social housing,
slum upgrading and urban governance programmes).
Based on the identification of the nexus between
disasters and urban development and of the incomplete
approaches to risk reduction and its mainstreaming, a
comprehensive adaptation framework is presented. The
book should be of interest to policymakers, academics
and practitioners working in development planning and
reconstruction who face the challenge of addressing
disasters, ever-increasing risk, and vulnerability to
climate change.

Autorentext

C. Wamsler, PhD, Dipl.Ing, MA, a trained architect, urban plannerand humanitarian aid worker, is now a Lecturer at the GlobalUrban Research Centre and the Institute for Development Policyand Management (IDPM), University of Manchester, VisitingProfessor at Lund University Centre for Risk Analysis andManagement, and international consultant.

Klappentext

Climate change and disasters are among today's mostpressing issues. The damage caused by the worldwideincrease in disasters is staggering, with the urbanpoor being most at risk. Disasters make their alreadyprecarious living conditions worse, creating avicious circle of poverty. More and more attentionhas thus been given to the need to address changingclimatic conditions and disaster risk throughdevelopment work. Despite related efforts, urbandevelopment actors still struggle to effectivelyreduce risk in their daily work. This book seeks to demonstrate how disaster riskmanagement and adaptation could be better integratedinto urban development planning (i.e. social housing,slum upgrading and urban governance programmes).Based on the identification of the nexus betweendisasters and urban development and of the incompleteapproaches to risk reduction and its mainstreaming, acomprehensive adaptation framework is presented. Thebook should be of interest to policymakers, academicsand practitioners working in development planning andreconstruction who face the challenge of addressingdisasters, ever-increasing risk, and vulnerability toclimate change.